Ouderkerk aan de Amstel (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʌudərkɛr(ə)k aːn də ˈʔɑmstəl]) is a town in the province of North Holland, Netherlands.

The castle of the van Amstel family was probably located on across the present church, however it was destroyed in 1204.

From the 17th century onwards, estates were built in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel by the Amsterdam merchants.

[4] The town is the site of the Beth Haim of Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, the oldest Jewish cemetery in the Netherlands,[5] as well as a neogothic Roman Catholic church that was designed by Pierre Cuypers in 1865.

[6] The Dutch landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael created at least two renderings of the cemetery and a church, after his imagination[7]