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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.

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.

Small modern church without a tower.

Modern church in pyramid shape, with a small bell tower to the right of the entrance, containing one bell. Built as a church building for the Seventh-day Adventists of Friesland, where the celebrations of this denomination take place on Saturdays. On Sundays also in use for celebrations of the Church of God. From 1981 also in use by the Reformed Church until 2003, when they moved to their own church building.

The Adventkerk is a Dutch Reformed Church built in 1958 and designed by architect Sijmons, KL Dzn. It is an example of religious Brutalist architecture. It is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

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

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.

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