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

Hall church without tower.

Hall church without tower. Extension 1984. Demolished except for a few walls in 2019. The church building of the old reformed community in the Netherlands in Langbroek is being renovated. The building, in the province of Utrecht, is a municipal monument. After several years of wrangling over the zoning plan, the building has now been demolished. Only a few monumental walls remained. The community is growing and needs more seats. These will become available thanks to the new construction, even more than that. There are also sixty seats available in a new hall. The old church still contained asbestos. The new building will soon be heated without gas. The churchgoers will start using the building again in October.

Simple hall church with saddle roof.

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.

The Reformed Old Church was formerly dedicated to Saint Adrian. The church consists of a tower in late Romanesque forms from the mid-13th century that was heightened in the 15th century, crowned by wrought ornament with coats of arms, and a mid-15th-century choir. Internal wooden barrel vaults. In the nave wall a false triforium. Late Gothic choir screen, pulpit in Renaissance forms. In the choir a grave monument. It was estored in 1933-1935. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.