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Nieuwe kerk

Den Helder, NL

Large neoclassical hall church ("water board style"). Built as Dutch Reformed New Church. Wooden tower from 1843. Important design by architect HH ​​Dansdorp, whose main work is the neoclassical Roman Catholic St. Joseph Church in Haarlem. Decommissioned as Dutch Reformed Church in the early 1970s.

Nieuwe Kerk

Nieuwe Kerk

Amersfoort, NL

Interesting interbellum church with a tower placed on the side. Built as the Dutch Reformed Church. This church building looks very much like the (still existing) Dutch Reformed New Church in Huizen.

Nieuwe kerk / Sint-Nicolaaskerk

Middelburg, NL

Unique historical complex. Rebuilt / reconstructed after heavy war damage in 1940. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Nieuwe Kerk / Vrijburg

Amsterdam, NL

Remonstrant church "Nieuwe Kerk", later called "Vrijburg", with outbuildings in the Herman Gorterstraat.The congregation came from the 'old' Remonstrant church on the Keizersgracht, now Rode Hoed. In the 1930s, architect Roodenburgh was also involved in the renovation of a (now demolished) Remonstrant church in Leiden.

Nieuwe Kerk

Nieuwe Kerk

Amsterdam, NL

The Sint-Nicolaaskerk (old church) was inaugurated at the end of the 14th century. The building was damaged by the city's fire of 1421 and 1452, but more seriously by the fire of 1645, after which date most of the interior. After the Alteratia of 1578, the church became Protestant. The Nieuwe Kerk, since 1814, is used for royal investitures and weddings. Nowadays, it is also one of the main exhibition centres in Amsterdam.

Nieuwe Kerk

Nieuwe Kerk

Katwijk aan Zee, NL

The New Church in Katwijk was a replacement of the former Andreaschurch, which had become too small. The construction started in 1885 and it took two years to finish everything. The current building is the oldest and best-known work of the Dutch architect H. J. Jesse (1860-1943).

Nieuwe of Noorderkerk

Groningen, NL

Cruciform renaissance church with roof turret. One of the most monumental church buildings built in the 17th century as a Protestant church.

Nieuwe Oosterkerk

Rotterdam, NL

Church and hall complex from 1952, designed by B. van Heyningen and B. Uyterlinde, built for the Reformed Church of Rotterdam-Centrum, to replace the Nieuwe Oosterkerk that was destroyed in 1940. Church hall, built in concrete skeleton construction in modernist forms, with a gallery running around on three sides, consisting of six bays, each with its own internally visible tent roof covering. Semi-detached openwork concrete tower. Modernised liturgical centre, pew plan from the construction period. Since around 1967, the Reformed Church in the Netherlands held services in the Reformed Nieuwe Oosterkerk, even after the sale of this church building to the Pentecostal Church of Capelle aan den IJssel in 1981. This church was founded after the ecclesiastical schism of 1953 in the Reformed Church, in which around 100 members and baptised members from the local Reformed Church transferred to this church association. This department of the Reformed Church in the Netherlands was abolished in 1999.

Nieuwe Westerkerk

Capelle aan den IJssel, NL

Interesting modern church with tower. Built as a Reformed church to replace the Westerkerk, elsewhere in Capelle aan den IJssel. The Reformed parish West is a parish within the Protestant parish in Capelle aan den IJssel.

Nieuwendammerkerk

Nieuwendammerkerk

Amsterdam, NL

The Nieuwendammerkerk is a hall church, built in 1848-1849, replacing a smaller and older church building. The church was built by order of the Reformed Church of Amsterdam.

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