View through a window of the former Bijlmerbajes prison, transformed into both "The Movement Hotel", staffed and run by asylum-seekers, and a center for asylum-seekers, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 20, 2017. Picture taken on September 20, 2017.
View of the former Bijlmerbajes prison, transformed into both "The Movement Hotel", staffed and run by asylum-seekers, and a center for asylum-seekers, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 19, 2017. Picture taken on September 19, 2017.
Asylum seekers, Monjid from Syria (L) and Bassit from Egypt, welcome a visitor inside the former Bijlmerbajes prison, transformed into both "The Movement Hotel", staffed and run by asylum-seekers, and a center for asylum-seekers, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 20, 2017. Picture taken on September 20, 2017.
View of the former Bijlmerbajes prison, transformed into both "The Movement Hotel", staffed and run by asylum-seekers, and a center for asylum-seekers, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 19, 2017. Picture taken on September 19, 2017.
Housekeeping Manager Ella Delsanto and Monjid, an asylum seeker from Syria, are seen inside the former Bijlmerbajes prison, transformed into both "The Movement Hotel", staffed and run by asylum-seekers, and a center for asylum-seekers, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 20, 2017. Picture taken on September 20, 2017.
Project leader Rob Hoogerwerf poses inside the former Bijlmerbajes prison, transformed into both "The Movement Hotel", staffed and run by asylum-seekers, and a center for asylum-seekers, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 20, 2017. Picture taken on September 20, 2017.
An unidentified asylum seeker stands inside the former Bijlmerbajes prison, transformed into both "The Movement Hotel", staffed and run by asylum-seekers, and a center for asylum-seekers, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 20, 2017.
An unidentified asylum seeker prays inside the former Bijlmerbajes prison, transformed into both "The Movement Hotel", staffed and run by asylum-seekers, and a center for asylum-seekers, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 20, 2017. Picture taken on September 20, 2017.
View of a control room inside the former Bijlmerbajes prison, transformed into both "The Movement Hotel", staffed and run by asylum-seekers, and a center for asylum-seekers, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 20, 2017. Picture taken on September 20, 2017.
A visitor takes photos inside the former The Bijlmerbajes prison, transformed into both "The Movement Hotel", staffed and run by asylum-seekers, and a center for asylum-seekers, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 22, 2017. Picture taken on September 22, 2017.
Housekeeping Manager Ella Delsanto talks with an unidentified asylum-seeker inside the former Bijlmerbajes prison, transformed into both "The Movement Hotel", staffed and run by asylum-seekers, and a center for asylum-seekers, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 20, 2017. Picture taken on September 20, 2017.
Asylum seeker, Monjid from Syria, brings food to visitors inside the former Bijlmerbajes prison, transformed into both "The Movement Hotel", staffed and run by asylum-seekers, and a center for asylum-seekers, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 20, 2017. Picture taken on September 20, 2017.
Former Dutch prison now offers refuge as hotel
The Movement Hotel, housed inside what was once the Netherlands' most notorious prison, is staffed and run by asylum-seekers.
