Haskerdijken Chapel
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.
About this building
One and a half kilometers north of the village center of Haskerdijken, surrounded by a few farms but otherwise very isolated, is the former reformed church De Kapelle, wedged between the A32 highway on the one hand and the Leeuwarden-Heerenveen railway line and the Heeresloot on the other. In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the church hall had large arched windows and a gable tower with a narrowed spire. Above the entrance there is a plaque with a Latin inscription, which translates as: "In the year 1818 in the month of April this church was restored when Ferdinand Adriaan Boelens was the manager of the domain goods in Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe". The church is managed by a Local Commission. Eight times a year there are worship services held by the Protestant Congregation in Heerenveen, which De Kapelle transferred to the Stichting Alde Fryske Tsjerken in June 2012.
