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Small modern church without a tower.

Interesting, beautifully detached, modern church. Important and fairly well preserved example of Protestant church building from the reconstruction period. Also an example of a so-called storey church.

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 The pews have been replaced by chairs and the pulpit has been demolished.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 Christus Koningkerk in the Mariahoeve district formed one parish with the Mariakerk (Immaculate Heart of Mary) in the Marlot district. The church was withdrawn from worship in 2003 and was sold. The closing celebration took place on 1-11-2003.

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.

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

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).

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

Interesting modern church with roof turret in the southwestern part of the city Gestel. Built as Dutch Reformed church, but from the beginning also used for separate Reformed church services, later joint celebrations. Shortly afterwards, the Reformed Church built the Emmaus church in Woensel "in return", for both Reformed and Protestants. Since 2004, the Advent church has been a church building of the merged PKN congregation Eindhoven. This church is very similar to the Marcus church in Utrecht, built a few years earlier and also very interesting, by the same architect.