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Church centre De Goede Rede in Almere-Haven. Architecturally interesting complex with tower, the first church tower in Almere.

Wooden church building with roof turret. Since April 30, 2019, the building at IJweg 1100 in Hoofddorp has been the property and on Sunday, March 1, 2020, the congregation was able to celebrate our first church service here with gratitude. In the meantime, the building has been refurbished and made suitable for our church services and weekday activities. Previously, the congregation had its own building at the Liesbos (from 1996) and we held church services in the auditorium of the Haarlemmermeer Lyceum (from 2004). Now everything is centered in one location! The building is not a traditional church building. It was originally built as a temporary extension of the KSH (Catholic Scholengemeenschap Hoofddorp) and mainly contained classrooms. After a few years, the extension was no longer necessary and the building was purchased by De Meerkerk, who started holding church services in this building and later used it as a meeting and office center. The building on the IJweg is located on a central road through the Haarlemmermeer, on the border of the Overbos and Bornholm districts, and close to Toolenburg, and offers the opportunity to have its own permanent location for church services both on Sundays and during the week.

The Groate Church, built in 1844, replaced a brick church that was originally built around 1530. Only the church tower from 1669 was maintained. In 1979 the Alde Fryske Tsjerken Foundation took over the church. The building has undergone radical restoration and has been in use since 1980 as a cultural center. A pilgrim information center has been established in the porch since 2011.

Enlarged and added turret 1919. Out of use and demolished in 1994, for the current new church building .

Characteristic Reformed church building built in 1926. In 1945 (or 1953) Reformed Church (Liberated). Expansion in 1996.

Former farm, demolished for new construction, a modern church building without a tower.

Nice single-nave church hall in neo-Gothic shapes, with pointed-arch stained glass windows. Extended and modernized ± late 1970s, by adding extensions to the right side of the church hall. This church contains a beautiful older organ, originating from the Chr. Geref. Church on the Lauriergracht in Amsterdam, which was decommissioned in 1986. The organ is at the back of the church and the pulpit at the front. The pulpit is provided with three panels depicting biblical scenes. As is the liturgical table. The woodcarving was made in 1977 by father and son Timmerman from Staphorst.

In the sixties, the reformed church de Hoeksteen was adapted as a youth centre.

De Hoeksteen is a church built in 1974 to replace an older wooden church in the town of Alblasserdam. It belongs to the Union of Baptist Churches in the Netherlands.

Modern church with tower. Extension in 2000.