Utrecht - St Catharijnekerk

From the Catharijneconvent Museum a narrow street, Catharijnesteeg, leads west into Lange Nieuwstraat, with St Catharijnekerk (No. 36). The church was begun by the Carmelite order in 1468 and completed by the Knights of St John in 1550. It was a Protestant church from 1635 to 1815, when it was returned to the Catholics. In 1853 it became the cathedral of a Roman Catholic archbishop, and is thus the principal Catholic church in the Netherlands.