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A new Catholic church, designed by K.P. Tholens and devoted to “Our Lady of Perpetual Help”, was constructed as an integral part of De Baarsjes, a new neighbourhood in West Amsterdam. The Chassé Church, as it was popularly known, was a big church and part of a Catholic enclave that also included a vicarage, schools and a nunnery. Kees Fens, a well-known literary critic and author who grew up next to the church in the 1930s, has noted that the neighbourhood was characterized by an “intense churchly engagement” and by the “unavoidability” of faith.

1926

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The Berlin Senate had the Luisenstadt canal filled in because of the increasingly unpleasant smell and danger of epidemics. Engelbecken remained. The landscape architect, Erwin Barth, planned the creation of an “Indian Garden” in the area where the canal had been. It was to feature green spaces and a pond. The idea, modelled on the Taj Mahal, was that the dome of St. Michael would be reflected in the water. A bronze Buddha sculpture was also erected.