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Pieterskerk
The present church was built between 1390 and 1565; different parts were designed by several of the most famous architects in the Low Countries. It contains an important organ from 1637, parts of which date from the 15th and 16th centuries. Many renowned university professors are buried here, as well as the painter Jan Steen and the Pilgrims'' minister John Robinson.
St. Pancras or Hooglandse kerk
This was Leiden''s second church, first a small one, consecrated to St. Pancratius in 1315. In 1377 the building of the present church started in Late Gothic style, and consecrated in phases in 1381 and 1436. The original design was never completed.
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