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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.

Church in reconstruction style without tower. Adventist Church of the Seventh-day Adventists (SDA), congregation Rotterdam South. The church of this society in Rotterdam North is also called Advent 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 The pews have been replaced by chairs and the pulpit has been demolished.

Evangelical Lutheran CHURCH. Characteristic building (19th century) on an approximately square plan, covered by three parallel hipped roofs behind the higher front facade, which has a central section with a pediment and plastered side wings with entrances. The round-arched windows and doors give the building a somewhat neo-Romanesque character. On the roof a domed tower. The church has a late 18th century pulpit, originating from the Mennonite church of Deventer. Domed tower with clock by Petit and Fritsen?, 1880?, diam. 66 cm.

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

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 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.

The Advent Church was built in 1966-1967 by order of the psychiatric institution Licht en Kracht (now the General Psychiatric Hospital Drenthe) to a design by the architects PL de Vrieze and AM Dekker from Groningen.

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

Seventh-day Adventist Church. Modern church without tower. Shared use on Sundays by the Assembly of Believers.