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The Maranathakerk occupies a unique place in the reconstruction architecture of The Hague. The building is a prototype of a famous series of German "emergency churches" after the Second World War. The spiritual father of the emergency churches was the German master builder Otto Bartning. The Dutch architect Frits Eschauzier integrated a donated roof structure into his own design. The church has been a municipal monument since 2018.

On July 3, 1919, the foundation stone of this church building was laid by Rev. D. Driessen. The day of commissioning was set for December 18, 1919. Hall church without tower in neo-Gothic forms.

The church replaced a church from 1930 on Borneostraat, which was destroyed by war violence in 1944.

The Vereniging Tot Heil des Volks (Association for the Salvation of the People), founded by Jan de Liefde (1814 - 1869) from Amsterdam, sent out evangelists to this peat area around 1870. In 1877, the Vrije Zendingsgemeente Nijtrijne (Free Missionary Church of Nijtrijne) was founded.

Construction started in 1953, but the actual construction did not start until 1954 on a vacant lot where the Hunzestraat, Kuinderstraat and Uiterwaardenstraat meet in the Rivierenbuurt.

Important modern church with detached tower. This building was built in 1962 as the third church building of the Reformed Church in Maassluis. Due to declining membership, the building is now used by the Evangelical Community 'Maranatha'. (This community may have been called 'De Kandelaar' for some time).

Extremely interesting, relatively large, reconstruction church with an important freestanding tower. Built as the Reformed Western Church, replacing an earlier building with the same name in the Eindhoven-Strijp district, on the Koenraadlaan. Shortly after it was put into use, in 1956, due to the construction of the 3rd Reformed Petra Church in Eindhoven-Stratum, it was renamed the Maranatha Church, at the same time as the older Reformed "Ooster Church" on the Fazantlaan, architect Tj. Kuipers, was renamed the Immanuël Church. In 1974 (in the context of ecumenical cooperation Samen op Weg) it was also used as the Dutch Reformed Church, after the demolition of the Dutch Reformed Schootse Church in the same Strijp district (this important Schootse Church was subsequently put into use, and is still in use, as a Christian Reformed Church). This Maranatha Church was decommissioned as the Dutch Reformed and Reformed Church in 1995; sold that year to, and since then in use by, the Pentecostal Church of Eindhoven, with the name "Maranatha Church" unchanged.

Very important modern church with freestanding tower. Built as a Reformed Church, replacing a small church hall on Groenestraat, and in addition to the more centrally located Immanuëlkerk (which was demolished about 10 years later, in 1973). This church is listed as a Municipal Monument of the Netherlands.

Well-kept relatively small "refodome" with tower. To replace the former church building . Due to the growth of the church community and a number of construction defects in the church building on the West-Groeneweg, a building committee was formed in 1979 to investigate the possibilities of new construction. On 3 July 1980, the decision was made to build a new church building with a sexton's house on the Prins Florisstraat. On 5 November 1982, the new church building was put into use. The number of seats is around 200.

Second Reformed Church in Nieuwleusen. In expansion district (Den Hulst). Modern church with tower.