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The Kandelaar is a multifunctional association building in Amsterdam - Zuidoost . The Kandelaar is located opposite the Ganzenhoef metro station and next to the Cultural and Educational Centre (CEC Amsterdam).The building houses fifteen migrant churches from Amsterdam-Zuidoost.

Built to replace an earlier church that had become too small. Built as the Reformed Church (Liberated). Nice modern church with a low tower. The church community has entered into a partnership with the Christian Reformed Church. The community is now called: NCGK Stadskanaal – de Lichtbron.

Modern church with tower. This became too small for the Reformed Church (GKV) in Dordrecht. Out of use as a Reformed Church (Liberated) in 1993. From 1993 Full Gospel Church Eljakim. The Kandelaarkerk is not the first building of the Liberated Church of Dordrecht. The name “de Kandelaar” has been used before on the Jan Ligthartlaan. This building was already becoming too small in 1986. The shortage of meeting space could be solved by renting rooms in a school building opposite the church. But the fact that the church hall was bursting at the seams on Sundays – and what about Communion Sundays with seven tables – required a structural approach. Renovation plans were scrapped. Existing churches were not available. New construction appeared to be the only option. In 1993 the die was cast. The old building was sold and temporary accommodation was found in the Kruiskerk, the Baptist building on the Vrieseweg. For the new building to be designed , the choice fell on architect De Ruiter. Not without reason, because he also built a surprising building in Dordrecht. A semi-circular church hall with two half rings around it. The outer one has the entrance in the middle with a view of the liturgical centre and also contains meeting facilities; the inner ring forms the hall with meeting rooms at the ends. The balcony opposite the pulpit carries the organ. This organ originally served as a concert organ in Musis Sacrum in Arnhem.

In 1926, De Kapel was donated by Mr. Jacobus Nienhuijs to the Bloemendaal branch of the Dutch Protestant Association. This branch, founded in 1918, was one of 60 branches at the time. Later, the name was changed to Vrijzinnige Geloofsgemeenschap NPB.

This chapel, with dome and roof turret and surrounding annexes, was built on the site of the previously demolished, then very dilapidated, medieval Nieuwezijdskapel.

Wooden building without tower. Built as Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

Modern, modest church without a tower. A few years before this church was put into use, so in the late 1960s - early 1970s, a temporary wooden church called "Morgensterkapel" stood there.

The church of Haskerdijken is wedged between the village, the railway and the motorway. The nineteenth-century church, with six tombstones from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries on the floor, is sometimes still used for (mourning) services.

Built as the Reformed Church Centre Den Donck. Round church hall with ancillary rooms.

Built as a Reformed church. Architecturally important modern building with tower. Also (for some time) Roman Catholic services and, on Saturdays, celebrations of the Seventh-day Adventists.