Nieuwe Kerk
Huizen, NL
Important interbellum church with tower. Renovated 1993. Reformed Federation church.
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Huizen, NL
Important interbellum church with tower. Renovated 1993. Reformed Federation church.
Borne, NL
The church was the second reformed church of Borne and is located in the western extension. Characteristic example of protestant church building from the interbellum. The church has recently been renovated internally and externally (see photos).
Rijswijk, NL
Interesting modern church with tower. Built in 1965 as the Reformed Church "Light of the World" in the then new Steenvoorde district. Hall church with ancillary rooms on a partly elliptical floor plan and built in sober, partly sculptural forms, visible in the slightly curved and asymmetrically designed tower facade. Characteristic and monumental, so-called glass appliqué wall by J. Vegter from the construction period. It was decided that the Reformed Light of the World Church, built in 1965 by LP van der Gaag, would become the PKN church for that district. A new name for the church was also sought. The choice fell on "New Church". On October 10, 2004, the first celebration took place after the church was redesigned. The Dutch Reformed Reconciliation Church in this district was decommissioned around that time and converted into a health center, almost unrecognizably. Since October 2004, the Protestant Community of Rijswijk has only used the Old Church (historic village church) in addition to this New Church.
Middelburg, NL
Unique historical complex. Rebuilt / reconstructed after heavy war damage in 1940. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.
Amsterdam, NL
Remonstrant church "Nieuwe Kerk", later called "Vrijburg", with outbuildings in the Herman Gorterstraat.The congregation came from the 'old' Remonstrant church on the Keizersgracht, now Rode Hoed. In the 1930s, architect Roodenburgh was also involved in the renovation of a (now demolished) Remonstrant church in Leiden.
Amsterdam, NL
The Sint-Nicolaaskerk (old church) was inaugurated at the end of the 14th century. The building was damaged by the city's fire of 1421 and 1452, but more seriously by the fire of 1645, after which date most of the interior. After the Alteratia of 1578, the church became Protestant. The Nieuwe Kerk, since 1814, is used for royal investitures and weddings. Nowadays, it is also one of the main exhibition centres in Amsterdam.
Katwijk aan Zee, NL
The New Church in Katwijk was a replacement of the former Andreaschurch, which had become too small. The construction started in 1885 and it took two years to finish everything. The current building is the oldest and best-known work of the Dutch architect H. J. Jesse (1860-1943).
Groningen, NL
Cruciform renaissance church with roof turret. One of the most monumental church buildings built in the 17th century as a Protestant church.
Rotterdam, NL
Church and hall complex from 1952, designed by B. van Heyningen and B. Uyterlinde, built for the Reformed Church of Rotterdam-Centrum, to replace the Nieuwe Oosterkerk that was destroyed in 1940. Church hall, built in concrete skeleton construction in modernist forms, with a gallery running around on three sides, consisting of six bays, each with its own internally visible tent roof covering. Semi-detached openwork concrete tower. Modernised liturgical centre, pew plan from the construction period. Since around 1967, the Reformed Church in the Netherlands held services in the Reformed Nieuwe Oosterkerk, even after the sale of this church building to the Pentecostal Church of Capelle aan den IJssel in 1981. This church was founded after the ecclesiastical schism of 1953 in the Reformed Church, in which around 100 members and baptised members from the local Reformed Church transferred to this church association. This department of the Reformed Church in the Netherlands was abolished in 1999.
Capelle aan den IJssel, NL
Interesting modern church with tower. Built as a Reformed church to replace the Westerkerk, elsewhere in Capelle aan den IJssel. The Reformed parish West is a parish within the Protestant parish in Capelle aan den IJssel.
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