Red roses were placed on the 298 white chairs, in memory of the mainly Dutch passengers and crew of flight MH17, BBC News reported.
The empty seats represented each of the victims of whom 196 were Dutch. There were 283 passengers and 15 crew on board, including pilots Wan Amran Wan Hussin and Eugene Choo Jin Leong, and two co-pilots, Ahmad Hakimi Hanapi and Muhd Firdaus Abdul Rahim.
All on board died when the Boeing 777 aircraft broke apart over eastern Ukraine while en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
Last month, an international investigating team said the aircraft was hit by a BUK missile belonging to Russian forces. Russia denies the allegation.
The incident, on July 17, 2014, occurred at the height of the conflict between government troops and pro-Russian separatists.
In May, the Dutch-led team of investigators said the missile had come from a unit based in western Russia but Russia insisted that none of its weapons were used.
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