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Put into service on November 1, 1968.

New Dutch Reformed Church in the post-war district of Morgenstond. Hall church, covered by a concrete shell roof, with ancillary rooms and a free-standing, open-worked concrete bell tower at the front. Designed by KL Sijmons Dzn. in a functionalist style, this was, in liturgical terms, a breakthrough in Protestant church construction just after the Second World War. The communion room could be connected to the church hall by means of a sliding wall or not. As such, Sijmons created a design that opened the way to multiple use. Stylistically, the design is somewhat influenced by the work of Le Corbusier due to the sculpturally designed bell tower.

Church in reconstruction style without tower. Adventist Church of the Seventh-day Adventists (SDA), congregation Rotterdam South. The church of this society in Rotterdam North is also called Advent Church.

Modern church with tower, built 1965-1967. Celebration of the 50th anniversary of this church building in 2017. Has also been used for Roman Catholic celebrations for quite some time (fell under the parish of Hoogland). The last Roman Catholic celebration was on April 6, 2014.

In 1966, the land on which this church stands was purchased for 100,000 guilders by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The church was put into use on 1 November 1967. On 26 October 1967, the newspaper Trouw paid attention to the upcoming opening under the title "New church in Hilversum": "the beautiful church building contains a large church hall with tasteful decoration, equipped with a black tiled baptistery for baptism by immersion, changing rooms, and a consistory room, as well as a youth centre, a meeting room and a games and games room." The pews have been replaced by chairs and the pulpit has been demolished.

The Adventkirken is a Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Norwegian town of Bodø. Photo: Tom Angelsen

The Advent Church was built in 1966-1967 by order of the psychiatric institution Licht en Kracht (now the General Psychiatric Hospital Drenthe) to a design by the architects PL de Vrieze and AM Dekker from Groningen.

Interesting modern church building that replaced the 'White Church '.

Seventh-day Adventist Church. Modern church without tower. Shared use on Sundays by the Assembly of Believers.

Important interbellum church with a large tower, 40 m high, to the right of the front facade. (Architecturally comparable in many respects to the Dutch Reformed New Bath Chapel in Scheveningen , designed by the same architect W. Ch. Kuijper).