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TIL In the upper floors of a baroque canal house in Amsterdam’s red-light district, stands 'Our Lord in the Attic', a hidden Catholic church. Build in an era when Catholics were forced to worship behind closed doors. It is one of the last hidden churches in Amsterdam.

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