High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Oost-Indisch Huis (Dutch for "East India House") is an early 17th-Century building in the centre of Amsterdam. It was the most important building of the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC). The building served as the headquarters of the Amsterdam chambre (Kamer) of the East India Company and the 20 regents of the Amsterdam chambre met here. In addition, the majority of meetings of the Heeren XVII (the Lords Seventeen), the regents of the East India Company, were also held at the Oost-Indisch Huis. Shipcrews were recruited here, and the archives and map collection of the East India Company were also kept here. In 1603, the Amsterdam chambre of the East India Company began using part of the Bushuis armory on the Kloveniersburgwal canal as a warehouse. Two years later, the East India Company took over the whole building. However, the company still lacked meeting and office space, so a new building was constructed directly adjacent to the Bushuis.

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