Hervormde Kerk
Piaam, NL
Dutch Reformed Church. Simple late Gothic brick church with wooden roof turret above the west facade.
Here you can search for a building to visit. You can use the map find destinations, or you can use the filters to search for a building based upon what different criteria.
Piaam, NL
Dutch Reformed Church. Simple late Gothic brick church with wooden roof turret above the west facade.
Renkum, NL
The foundation stone for this church building was laid on 16 February 1949. This stone was laid by the then minister ds. W. Deur. The architect was Mr. Roodenburg from Amsterdam, the work was awarded to the Van Aggelen brothers, contractors in Renkum. On Wednesday 18 January 1950, more than 11 months after construction began, the church was put into use. Three bells are installed in the tower. This happened on 16 December 1949. These bells do not have a motto. The only inscription is the name of the bell founder "Van Bergen" and the year 1949 NHK Renkum. The largest bell weighs 175 kg and the other two weigh 110 and 70 kg respectively. The clock in the tower is a gift from the Municipal Council of Renkum.
Haastrecht, NL
Reformed Church. Late Gothic wooden-arched CROSS CHURCH, of which only the short nave, the transept and the tower remain. The side aisle bays have gables. Tower hull XIII B in early Gothic forms, Renaissance superstructure restored after fire damage in 1896; tower again approx. 1960. Interior: two copper crowns (XVII). Organ with Hoofdwerk and Bovenwerk, made in 1847 by L. van Dam and Sons for the Reformed Church in Bovenkarspel. Transferred to Haastrecht in 1968.
Neerijnen, NL
Neo-Gothic village church with tower. Replaced a church from 1692. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.
Drimmelen, NL
Dutch Reformed Church. Founded in 1792 by Jonkvrouw van Doorn, Lady of Drimmelen (commemorated in a stone above the entrance, with coat of arms), to replace the church in Oud-Drimmelen. Hall church, closed on three sides at the short ends; arched windows; high slate roof with roof turret. Internal wooden wall pilasters and wooden barrel vault with two rosettes with mermaids. Adjoining parsonage from the time of construction. Iron entrance gate between two bluestone pillars also from the time of construction. 18th century copper lecterns and baptismal font holder. Restored in 1965.
Randwijk, NL
Reformed church. Of the medieval church, only the late Gothic, single-nave, three-sided closed choir remains. The west side of the nave was irreparably damaged when the tower was blown up in 1944-1945. Under the leadership of ir WJG van Mourik, the choir was restored and a completely new nave was built, more or less in keeping with the style of the choir. Against the west side, a large square tower with a pointed roof and bell spire. The work was completed in 1953, during which the nave, which had been badly damaged in 1944, was subsequently rebuilt in quasi-Gothic forms.
Rouveen, NL
Simple, in 1641 on the site of an older predecessor, built of brick CHURCH BUILDING, on a rectangular foundation. The tower, built in two sections, under an equally constricted slate-covered tent roof and with a sober entrance, located within a pointed arched recessed panel with a round window under a Tudor-style arch; sound holes within pointed arched recessed panels; rod anchors. The straight-closed nave, covered by a hipped roof covered with tiles, supported by buttresses with tiled offsets and provided with Tudor-style pointed arch windows in the rear and side facades; door and several small windows. The following interior elements are of interest internally: three 17th century copper crowns and a late 17th century (17th century) copper lectern. Church building with some interior elements of interest because of their architectural and art historical value.
Sint Anthoniepolder, NL
Reformed church. Single-nave late Gothic church with three-sided choir closure and simple tower, the upper part of which has three high unprofiled round-arched niches in three facade surfaces, probably 16th century. The church is covered with a wooden barrel vault on tie beams. South Wall renewed in the 19th century. The inventory includes: a simple 17th century pulpit, with 18th century lectern and four simple 19th century pews. Oak bell frame with bell by G. Butendiic, 1436, diam. 85.2 cm.
Eethen, NL
Dutch Reformed Church, consisting of a three-sided closed choir of brick with tuff stone bands and buttresses, from the second half of the 15th century; a lower Romanesque nave from the 12th century, made of tuff stone, with small windows in round arch fields separated by wall dams, enlarged to the west in the 13th century with a brick bay, and a simple flat tower from the end of the 14th century, raised with a section in the 15th century and crowned by a spire constricted from four to the back.
Molenaarsgraaf, NL
The church in Molenaarsgraaf, beautifully restored in 1961, consists of a wide single-aisled nave from the first half of the 16th century and a narrower, three-sided closed choir, built around 1500. During the restoration, several traces were found of a church that must have stood there earlier. The cast-iron windows from the 19th century were replaced by brick windows during the restoration. The windows were fitted with stained glass with bronze bridge rods. The bell was made in 1710. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.
new
For a long time, Europe was ruled by powerful monarchies. Monarchy and religion have been connected since time immemorial. Here are 7 sites across Europe where royalty historically bent the knee to a higher power and received their crown.
Stupas are symbols of enlightenment and peace that commemorate different stages of Buddha's life. Since the mid-20th century, thousands of stupas have begun to populate Europe. We have compiled some of the most impressive ones in this list.
Walter Maria Förderer (1928–2006) was a Swiss architect and sculptor renowned for his neo-expressionist church designs in the 1960s. In this list we have compiled 6 of his church designs that seamlessly integrate religious and secular elements.