BEGIJNHOFKAPEL (Beguinage Chapel):

Begijhofkapel This chapel was used by the university for its library and anatomy theater. The Pilgrims were allowed to use a large groundfloor room on Sundays in the last years of their stay in Leiden, when religious meetings in private homes were made illegal. Later the same room became the English Reformed Church (the Puritan congregation led by Hugh Goodyear). There is a garden area behind the chapel, with a fine view to the Pieterskerk over the roofs of the area where Robinson lived.

Farther along the curving Rapenburg canal, on the opposite side is an arched bridge over the


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