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Marum, NL
Sober modern church without tower, built as Reformed Church (Liberated). After merger in 2023 NGK.
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Marum, NL
Sober modern church without tower, built as Reformed Church (Liberated). After merger in 2023 NGK.
Rotterdam, NL
Built as the Reformed Church (Liberated) in Rotterdam-Delfshaven. Since the merger in 2023, NGK.
Best, NL
Large modern round church, with a freestanding rectangular tower, containing two bells. This Roman Catholic church has also been used by the Reformed Church (Liberated) since 2000. In the autumn of 2010, this church building was officially sold to the Reformed Church (Liberated). The Roman Catholic St. Lidwina parish has merged with the Roman Catholic parish of St. Antonius van Padua, with a (beautiful) church on Wilhelminaplein in Best. The parish church of St. Lidwina (1965, L. de Bever), on Raadhuisstraat 209, was closed for Roman Catholic worship in the summer of 2009. From 2000, the Reformed Church (Liberated) held services in the Roman Catholic St. Lidwina church. Since the autumn of 2010, the building has officially only been used as the Reformed Church (Liberated), with the name "Lidwinakerk". In 2010, the church community decided to buy the Roman Catholic church building.
Roodeschool, NL
Built as a Reformed Church. Church building on a T-shaped plan, with a roof turret, built in 1871. The front facade has plastered decorations with neoclassical elements and is crowned by a roof turret with a spire. Furnishings from the construction period. Organ case from 1908, made by M. Eertman (Noordwolde), single-manual instrument from 2001, made by Henk van Eeken. From 1944 also Reformed Church (Liberated). In 1950 a new Reformed Church was built in Roodeschool. After church merger in 2023 NGK.
Gameren, NL
Church building of the Foundation Reformed Church Gameren, protected BECAUSE of the single-manual ORGAN. Made in 1754 by JF Moreau in Rotterdam for the English Presbyterian community there. From 1879 to 1920 it was placed in the Chr. Reformed Church of Gorinchem. From there it was moved to Gameren and restored in 1988 by SF Blank in Herwijnen.
Axel, NL
Characteristic Tjeerd Kuipers church with tower. Built as a Reformed Church. Expansion of the church in 1918-1919, also under the leadership of Tj. Kuipers. The church has been used by the Reformed Church (Liberated) since 1945, and was renovated again in 1948. Around 1998, the church was renovated on the inside. During this renovation, the organ console was raised. This created extra space under the church hall (the church is located on a rampart, which means that there is a considerable difference in height between the front and back of the church hall) where extra meeting space was created.
Hoek, NL
Built as a Reformed Church. Inaugurated on Thursday 17 Dec. 1903. Since 1953 in use as the Reformed Church (Liberated). After the merger in 2023 NGK. In the 1970s a meeting room was added to the rear of the church.
Middelharnis, NL
Modest modern church without a tower.
Hoogkerk, NL
The foundation of the current church building dates from 1861, the year in which the secession of 1834 also took place in Hoogkerk. In 1908, the church building on the Hoendiep was expanded and the church building received its current tower. In 1920, a wing with a gallery was added to the east side and the church building was given the shape of an L. In 1960, the next renovation took place; the community building 't Anker was built against the church on the west side with a large divisible hall and a small meeting room. Due to the growth of the congregation, there was a need for a larger church building at the end of the 1980s. After much discussion and various plans, it was decided to renovate the existing building, including expanding the church hall.
Enumatil, NL
Built as a Reformed Church. In 1945 it became a Reformed Church (Liberated).
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