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Front of church, rear of house.

This was an interbellum church with a tower.

Built as Reformed Bethel Church. Now PKN Emmaus Church. Striking, large, well-maintained reconstruction church with high tower to the left of the "choir side". In the clerestory of both side walls are 2 x 5 colorful square stained glass windows (details about maker and depictions still to be found).

Moluccan Protestant Church.

Built as Dutch Reformed Evangelisation room. Rather inconspicuous hall church without tower. Extension 1960. Church of the Reformed-Ref. parish within the Protestant Community of Den Bosch; this is comparable to a Reformed Church with Reformed Bond signature (Bethel Church 's-Hertogenbosch).

From 1964 to 1969 Reformed Church (Liberated). Since 1969 Dutch Reformed Church.

Second Bethel Church in Enschede. Replaced the Bethel Church on Haaksbergerstraat, which was destroyed by an Allied bombing raid on 22 February 1944.

In the 19th and early 20th century there were a few families in Bodegraven who read a sermon at home on Sundays. After a while they started doing this together. Before the institution in 1925, religious services were held in a building on Kerkstraat , later on Oud Bodegraafseweg [the so-called Rooiekoolkerk] and later still on Willemstraat [behind the Reformed Church]. In the summer of 1925 Mr. P. Zaal reported that he was having two houses built in the new Koningsstraat with a “room” in between to hold church services. This “little church” had 100 seats. Spaciously built for the 31 members and 59 baptized members in 1926.

Reformed Church of Tricht-Geldermalsen, founded in 1845. Initially, the members of the Reformed Church met in a flax barn in the Kerkstraat in Tricht. In 1934, a new church with 400 seats was put into use in Tricht. The building became too small and in 1969 a new church with 700 seats was built on the Tunnelweg in Geldermalsen. That church also became too small. In the summer of 2001, the first pile was driven for a new church on the Laan van Leeuwenstein. On 6 February 2003, it was officially put into use and was named Bethel Church. The architectural firm RoosRos in Oud-Beijerland made the design. There is room for 1224 churchgoers and if necessary, it can be expanded to 1600 seats. An electronic organ was used temporarily. But organ builder Bogaard built a permanent organ with 32 or 34 stops.

Built to replace the demolished Gereformeerde Bethelkerk on the Spoorstraat. Architecturally very interesting modern church. On the right side a freestanding small belfry, in which 1 (older) bell, originating from the Geref. Duinkerk in the southern reconstruction district Nieuw Den Helder. This Bethelkerk is now the only Protestant (PKN) church building in "Den Helder binnen de Linie", i.e. the old center and its immediate surroundings.