A chapel is soon built on the spot where the Miracle of Amsterdam took place. After this chapel is completely destroyed by the great city fire of 1452, a large neo-Gothic church is built on that spot. After the Alteration of 1578, the now renamed Nieuwezijds Kapel comes into the hands of the Reformed Church in 1580. The maintenance too. In 1890, the church closes its doors due to dilapidation. The Catholics - who started a revival at the end of the nineteenth century - and the Protestants are at each other's throats. The Reformed Church wants to demolish the church and thus stop the advance of the Catholics; those same Catholics want to preserve their Heilige Stede for eternity. Unfortunately, they draw the short straw. In 1908, the church is demolished.

Fragments

The City Council wants to preserve the sculpted building fragments of the chapel for reuse. The fragments are loaned to the Rijksmuseum by the Dutch Reformed Church. Until 1914, six shortened columns are placed in the garden. After many wanderings, the fragments are moved to the site of the former Uilenburg Synagogue in 1953, after the war. The fragments are left to their fate and partly wander around the city. In 1984, only 529 are counted. Four years later, they accidentally end up in trade and are spotted on the Spiegelgracht and at Christie's in an auction of garden furniture, among other places. A trestle statue of a 'milkmaid' and wall posts in the shape of men's heads end up in the Rijksmuseum. These objects are now in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum.

The Miracle Column

At the end of the 1980s, a column was erected on the Rokin at the initiative of the Stichting Amsterdam Versierd, a forerunner of the Stichting Vrienden van de Amsterdamse Binnenstad. Contrary to what is often claimed, it did not come entirely from the Heilige Stede. Sculptor Hans 't Mannetje built a new one from many fragments, and where better to place such a monument than at the place where the history of this 'Miracle Column' was written? After the column was temporarily stored elsewhere due to the construction of the North/South line, it was finally replaced on the Rokin in 2017.