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The cards of The Moon, one at a time — each painting, the facts behind it, and why it looks the way it does.

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Very different people sharing one roof, one courtyard, one table.

Under One Roof

Very different people sharing one roof, one courtyard, one table.

Card 37 of 48 · The Moon · Leiden

Why this image

A round courtyard lies under a swirling night sky, with a cast-iron water pump in the middle and a ring of arched doors around it, each painted a different colour, each with its own lit lamp. Leiden has thirty-four such hofjes, from the Jeruzalemhofje of 1467 on 1. Not painted, but the same shared roof: the Children's Rights House holds several organisations working towards one end 2, De Bakkerij is run side by side by the Protestant and the Roman Catholic diaconates for anyone, whatever they believe 3, and La Vertu writes of itself that from its founding very different people were members 4.

What it draws on · 4

Leiden Courtyards (Hofjes)

vierendertig hofjes

Leiden has thirty-four hofjes, scattered through the whole of the old centre. The oldest is the Jeruzalemhofje of 1467; then came the Groot Sionshof (1480), the Sint Stevenshof (1487), the Sint Anna Aalmoeshuis (1492), the Sint Annahof (1503) and the Sint Janshof (1504). Those earliest founders were still Catholic and named their hofje after a saint or a place from the Bible.

Sources · 2
  • Nederlandstalige Wikipedia — Hofjes in Leiden; Lijst van hofjes in Leiden
  • De Leidse Canon — 'De Leidse hofjes'
Children's Rights House

een huis vol organisaties

The Kinderrechtenhuis is a shared building: several organisations work under one roof towards the same end. There are offices, a library, meeting and exhibition rooms and a restaurant, and the house holds a small museum and, since 2022, De Leidse Salon with its chamber music concerts. Among the organisations are Defence for Children Nederland, the Children's and Youth Legal Clinic, and JES Rijnland.

Sources · 3
  • Utopa-Weeshuis Kinderrechtenhuis Leiden — utopa-weeshuis.nl
  • Defence for Children Nederland — Hooglandse Kerkgracht 17G, Leiden
  • JES Rijnland — vestiging Kinderrechtenhuis
Diaconal Center De Bakkerij

kerk en stad

In 1985 the building became Diaconaal Centrum De Bakkerij. The diaconates of Leiden's Protestant congregation and of its Roman Catholic parish — the arm through which each church does its charitable work — run it side by side, giving help to anyone who needs it, near and far, for a short while or a long one, whatever they believe and wherever they come from.

Sources · 2
  • Leiden In Motion: De Diversity Walk — Stichting Güney / Turksarchief.nl
  • Diaconaal Centrum De Bakkerij — debakkerijleiden.nl
Loge La Vertu

de oudste loge van Leiden

La Vertu is the oldest masonic lodge in Leiden, founded in 1757; as number 7 it is among the oldest in the Netherlands. Of itself the lodge writes: 'From its founding very different people were members. That is still so today.' A new member begins as an apprentice and goes on as companion and master — the language of the craft guild, for a road you walk yourself. The lodge building on the Steenschuur is a national monument.

Sources · 3
  • Loge La Vertu — logelavertu.nl: 'La Vertu is opgericht in 1757'
  • Nederlandstalige Wikipedia — Loge La Vertu: nummer 7, oudste loge van Leiden
  • Rijksmonumenten.nl — Logegebouw 'La Vertu', Steenschuur, Leiden

Shares its places with · 10

Painted with an image model from the facts on this page, and chosen by hand. City in Motion.

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