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Modern church, built as Reformed Church (Liberated) to replace an earlier temporary home of this denomination. Since 2023 NGK

The Gothic Reformed Church of Avas is the oldest building in the centre of Miskolc. The construction of the church began in the 13th century in the Romanesque style. In 1544 the Turks set fire to the church, which was rebuilt from 1563 to 1569 and made Protestant. The Baroque mortuary in the south was built in 1760 and the neo-Gothic in the north in 1896.

Simple hall church without a tower.

Church with roof turret. On July 2, 1889, the foundation stone of this church was laid. The building suffered considerable damage in 1944. The flood disaster on February 1, 1953 caused considerable damage to the interior of this church. The water was approximately 2.50 meters high. Temporarily, church services were held in "De Gouden Leeuw". But in the first week of March 1953, the damage had been repaired to such an extent that the church itself could be used again. Complete renovation in 1955/1956.

Beautiful modern church. The first members of Spijkenisse initially attended church in the Reformed Church in Poortugaal. On 1 January 1961, the first Sunday church service was held in Spijkenisse, in the Kontakt association building on Vredehofstraat. After first being a department of the church in Poortugaal, the church was established as an independent church on 21 March 1963. In 1967, the church community decided to build a church building. This church building was put into use on 22 February 1968, with 160 seats. In 1974, the number of seats was expanded to 280.

Single-nave, 15th century village church with a five-sided closed choir, which was extensively modified in 1842, and a monumental tower, 1555 by Cornelis Frederiks van der Goude, consisting of three brick sections with natural stone bands and slender, Ionic pilasters on the corners (the capitals of the upper pilasters were not executed).

Built as a Christian Reformed Church in 1916. In use as such until 1962.

Reformed Church, built in 1773-1775 in the shape of a Greek cross, designed by the Amsterdam city architect JE de Wit. Beautiful lead-covered tower. Internal wooden barrel vaults. Furniture (pulpit, pew) from the 17th and 18th centuries. Organ with main work, upper work and pedal, made in 1865 by Flaes and Brünjes (Amsterdam). Bell frame with clock by Cornelius van Ammeroy, 1603, diam. 118.1 cm. Mechanical tower clock, circa 1880.

Built in 1861 to replace the old village church. Three copper chandeliers, Louis XVI. Tombstone, 17th century. Single manual organ of Westphalian origin. Made around 1700. Placed in the Herv. Church in Loenen in 1870. On that occasion, the lower case was removed and the keyboard moved to the side. During the restoration in 1978, the case was reconstructed in its original form (with lower case and backside playing). The maker of the organ is unknown.

The Reformation also drove out the priests in Sebaldeburen. It is not known how the service was performed at that time. In the year 1602 Nicolaus Petri took charge of the service here. At that time there was a combination with Grijpskerk. This probably lasted until 1606. Then there is mention of a joint minister for Grootegast and Sebaldeburen: Thomas Joannis. The stamp above the entrance was left by Rev. Nicolaus Westendorp on the reformed congregation when the new church was put into use in 1807. Because it was this Rev. Westendorp who, when he became minister of Sebaldeburen in 1797, was very annoyed by the dilapidated church he found there. He says it like this: "When I came to the Community (in 1797) I had considered the pitiful condition of the Church with the saddest emotions. This feeling became tormenting, as often as I imagined the approaching moment when the care for our lives would force us to avoid it. There was no repairing it: it was not possible to establish a new one from the church goods and income, because they were not even sufficient to maintain the Parsonage and Sacristan. There was also no expectation of the Community; because it was small, burdened by other institutions and consisted mainly of peat and laborers."