Doopsgezinde Kerk
Roden, NL
Large church with roof turret. Extension in 1983.
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Roden, NL
Large church with roof turret. Extension in 1983.
Beverwijk, NL
Hall church in neo-Romanesque forms, with a roof turret on the front facade. Since 2010 (after the Mennonite Meeting House in IJmuiden was decommissioned), this has been the Mennonite Church for "De IJmond". In 2012, extensive attention was paid to the centenary of this church building. Among other things, with an exhibition about the Danish artist Thorvaldsen.
Grou, NL
Frontage of the Mennonite Church. Above the gate passage, next to which two six-pane windows, floor with three such windows. Facade closed off by block moulding. Hidden church in a three-sided closed hall building covered by a barrel vault from 1829. Simple pulpit. Originally a single-manual organ made in 1872 by the Gebr. Adema from Leeuwarden. Modified in 1920 by Bakker and Timmenga.
Schagen, NL
Built as a Reformed Church. As such out of use around 1974, when a new Reformed Church was put into use elsewhere in Schagen.
Berlikum, NL
Mennonite Church. Hall church under hipped roof from 1841. Front facade finished by cornice with classical frieze. Entrance framed by pediment. Organ by the firm L. van Dam & Zonen from 1916.
Hoofddorp, NL
Hall church in neo-Romanesque style without tower. Out of use as a church building NPB 1948. Then in use as a church of the Mennonite Community. The roof turret, present on the old black and white image, disappeared decades ago.
Harlingen, NL
In 1996, the beautiful church from 1853 was demolished because it had become too expensive to maintain. The adjacent buildings, which were also owned by the Mennonite Community, were then restored and converted into a new church.
Sint Annaparochie, NL
Neo-church without tower. New front facade in 1950.
Noordhorn, NL
Mennonite church from 1838. The side walls are divided by lesenes, between which there is a semicircular closed window. It also has a framed entrance. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.
Krommenie, NL
Beautiful wooden Vermaning without tower. This Mennonite church was built in 1703 to replace an older Vermaanhuys that was lost in a fire on 22 July 1702. Due to the great sacrifice of surrounding Mennonite communities, the new building was consecrated on 17 May 1703. The Vermaning, built by master carpenter Claes Gerritz. Underwater, Inverdan stands : The government prohibited Mennonites from building churches that were recognisable from the road. A major restoration took place from 1959 to 1963. From ? to 1971 it was also temporarily used by the Reformed Church (Liberated).
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