The outdoor chapel of Nijkleaster - Klooster Westerhûs is a place of silence and prayer. Here happiness and gratitude may be expressed, here our sorrow and may our worries resound.

The chapel in built on the inside with monumental monastic bricks from hundreds of medieval Roman Catholic churches and monasteries from the Frisian lands. So here, in the yard of Nijkleaster, we feel connected to our ancestors who carved in stone a life of Frisian, pious and free with toil and sweat.

The basis of the collection of monastic bricks was donated to Nijkleaster in 2009 by Loadewyk Damsma (1921-2010). He collected between the year of the beatification of Father Titus Brandsma (1985) and the year 2000 many hundreds of monastery bricks from as many Frisian medieval churches and monasteries. In the year 2000, many bricks were taken to Rome and a wall of monastic bricks was erected in the Church of the Frisians (Chiesa dei Frisoni, right next to St. Peter's Square). In 2009, Damsma donated much of the remaining collection to Nijkleaster. On that occasion, Nijkleaster promised to handle the Alde Friezen carefully and to give them a place in the future location of our new monastery. And to give the stones, if possible, a place in a Chapel of the Frisians. The stones were given a place in this Kapel fan de Alde Friezen in 2024.

The chapel and yard of monastery Westerhûs are freely accessible.