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Modern church with tower.

This church is listed as a Municipal Monument of the Netherlands.

Important, characteristic church building with tower. Built as a Reformed Church. The exterior is almost completely intact. In the interior many renovations took place in the early 2000s.

This church with its historic tower is an interesting example of an old village church, which was rebuilt and expanded at the end of the 19th century with the then more modern means (e.g. slender iron pillars). Before the Reformation this church was called St. Nicholas Church.

The church was put into use on 22 December 1937. It has 950 seats and was designed by the architect AT Kraan.

In the post-war period, Leerdam expanded strongly in the Leerdam-West district. Church services had also been held there since the sixties; namely in the Rehoboth building on the Tiendweg. However, this building gradually became too small for the congregation, so plans were made for a new church in West. The church was placed on the Europaplein, where it was given a dominant position – at the end of the Joost de Jongestraat – partly because its tower is visible from afar. The construction was carried out by the firm Schuite & De Graaf. The building, which can accommodate 600 people, was designed as a rectangle, with the actual church building as the main part, behind which are several ancillary rooms. The foundation stone was laid on 6 February 1960, while the official opening took place on 26 January 1961. The celebrant in the service at the opening was the then district minister, ds. K. Ooms. His sermon was about 'the miraculous catch of fish' from Luke 5. This choice of text had to do with the image of the miraculous catch of fish on the north wall of the church. In 1988, the adjacent rooms were thoroughly renovated and expanded. The large 'Rehoboth Hall' was also created (which now has the image of the miraculous catch of fish on the inner wall). These rooms now offer all the possibilities for the various forms of church youth work; and are also very regularly rented out to third parties.

The New Pauluskirche in Essen, Germany, built in 1908 as a replacement for the war-damaged old church, was repurposed into a residential and nursing home. In 2002, plans were made to decommission the church, but a local association ensured its preservation.

St Paul's Church (Pauluskirche) in Frankfurt was designed by the architect Johann Friedrich Christian Hess and built between 1789 and 1833. It is currently used as an exhibition memorial and meeting place.

Modern church with small tower, in the Spangen district in Rotterdam-West. Replaced the former, demolished Roman Catholic St. Nicholas Church from 1962, at the same location. The Surinamese Roman Catholic Parish Petrus Donders has also been located here since 2008. That parish used the Roman Catholic Church HH Verlosser en Barbara in Crooswijk, which was closed that year, from 1997 to 2008.

Built in 1965 as a Reformed church, in the then new Mariahoeve district. Modern church with freestanding bell tower.