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In the 19th century, a soap factory was located in the building at Hoogstraat 18. When the soap factory was closed, the Mennonite community bought the building. And after the completion of their new church in 1889, they sold the building again to the Salvation Army. It was officially put into use as a corps hall on 13 July 1889. That date is also the date of birth of the Middelburg Corps of the Salvation Army. This building was seriously damaged in the Second World War. An emergency building was used at that time. In 1960, a new and more spacious building was put into use at Gravenstraat 8. Temporary and more spacious accommodation was then found in the former church at Kerklaan 19 in West Souburg.

Salvation army building.

The church in Kors was built on Flatmark in 1797 and was moved to Monge in 1902. The church has an exterior outline similar to that of a cruciform church and is built of wood. The reason why the church was moved from Flatmark is that a royal resolution of 23 March 1901 divided the parish of Kors into two, Medalen and Øverdalen.

Korshamn chapel is a wooden building completed in 1906. The architect of the chapel is Arne Abrahamsen.

The Korsnes church is a long church dating from 1889. The church in Korsnes was originally built as a chapel on Kjøpsnes in the 1720s. In 1791 the chapel was moved to Hulløya, and was brought back from Hulløya to Kjøpsnes in 1838. It was later restored and enlarged. In 1885 Tysfjord County Council decided to build a new church in Kjøpsnes and move the existing church to Korsnes.

The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. According to the Lo Tishkakh database, the oldest tombstone dates to 1830. However, the oldest tombstone found by the ESJF survey team dates to the late 19th century. As such the cemetery was most likely founded in that period. It first appears on a Russian map of the region from 1923. The fence was erected by ESJF in 2015.

The cemetery’s establishment date is unknown. During World War II, by order of the German authorities, some tombstones were used to pave the roads. The cemetery fell into further disrepair in the post-war years. In the 1983 cemetery records, in the “User comments” section, the following is written: “Carrying out renovation works is not recommended. For economic reasons it is proposed to use the area as a pasture for cattle.” In 2016, the ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative fenced the cemetery.

The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown, but it can be assumed that it emerged in the 20th century. The cemetery preserves 36 gravestones dating from 1914 to 1995.

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The history of the parish is inextricably linked with the building of the church, the construction of which began on November 21, 1928 and was completed in 1930 on March 15. The building, designed by the German architect Hekkomer from Stuttgart, with its contemplative, catacomb-like interior and simplified, innovative architectural form, somewhat reminiscent of the early Romanesque style, refers to the avant-garde style of sacred architecture leading in the 1930s, slightly modeled on the early Romanesque style represented mainly by German builders . The originality and uniqueness of this project is enhanced by the unusual furnishings and decorations of the temple, mainly through the over seven-meter-high majestic figure of the crucified Christ, made by Berthold Muller Orinhausen from Berlin, and wall paintings depicting individual scenes of the Way of the Cross, created by the artist from Manheim, Willi Osler.