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Delft Sacred Places Walk

Delft Sacred Places Walk

Delft · Netherlands

10 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Delft with sacred places as your sole theme, beginning at a church and continuing through churches, a synagogue and chapels. At each stop, pause to compare the different names, forms and identities of these places of worship. The walk is worthwhile for the way its sequence brings several religious traditions and distinct churches together in one focused route.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 10. The rest are in the app.

  1. Nieuwe Kerk

    Nieuwe Kerk

    Nieuwe Church, a Christian church and place of worship in Delft, Netherlands.

  2. Maria van Jessekerk

    Maria van Jessekerk

    A Catholic church whose twin towers remember Delft’s two former Catholic churches.

  3. Delft Synagogue

    Delft Synagogue

    A nineteenth-century synagogue whose survival carries Delft’s Jewish history into the present.

  4. 4 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Génestetkerk

    Génestetkerk

    A Remonstrant church concealed behind an Oude Delft gate, built on a clandestine church’s site.

  6. Saint Hippolytus Chapel

    Saint Hippolytus Chapel

    A Gothic chapel that survived fire, Reformation, depot years, and became Catholic again.

  7. Old Church

    Old Church

    Old Church, a Christian church and museum in Delft

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 4 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

4 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 10 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.