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Hall church without tower.

Small hall church without tower. Renovation 1865. Renovated or expanded at least once after that.

The current church was built in 1982 and replaced an older building. Due to the growth of the congregation, the church was expanded in 1994. In the spring of 2009, a gallery with 125 seats was put into use. (62-09)

Architecturally interesting modern church without tower. Extension in 2005.

Small reconstruction church without tower.

The origins of the congregation lie in 1838, when a Christian separated congregation was instituted. Via the Reformed Churches under the Cross (1846) and the Christian Reformed Church (1869), it became a free congregation in 1883 with the name Independent Christian Congregation. In 1922, it joined the Federation of Old Reformed Congregations. Eleven years later, in 1933, the congregation joined the Reformed Congregations. A minority remained with Rev. J. van Wier as a free congregation. In 1946, it joined the federation again, which merged with the Old Reformed Congregations in the Netherlands in 1948.

On site of old church. With new extension. The old church was demolished after this new construction.

Built to replace a building destroyed by storm damage. Decommissioned in 1930. Replaced by new church building.

The Oude Helenakerk (Old Helen's Church) is a church building from the 15th century (although the tower dates from the 12th century). It has a beautiful vault and wall paintings from the 14th century. The pulpit dates from 1784.

Tower Dutch Reformed Church. Remarkable building, dated 1821, of which the brick body of three sections, separated by natural stone frames and neo-classical entrance has embossed brick and with Ionic half-columns, which carry a pediment. The superstructure, consisting of a square and an octagonal open wooden section, still shows a baroque influence, as does the way in which the tower body is connected to the side walls of the church by means of curved gables, crowned by parapets. Mechanical tower clock, EJ Rochlitz. Above the entrance door is a strongly west-deviating wooden sundial, before 1821.