Nieuwe Oosterkerk

Church and hall complex from 1952, designed by B. van Heyningen and B. Uyterlinde, built for the Reformed Church of Rotterdam-Centrum, to replace the Nieuwe Oosterkerk that was destroyed in 1940. Church hall, built in concrete skeleton construction in modernist forms, with a gallery running around on three sides, consisting of six bays, each with its own internally visible tent roof covering. Semi-detached openwork concrete tower. Modernised liturgical centre, pew plan from the construction period. Since around 1967, the Reformed Church in the Netherlands held services in the Reformed Nieuwe Oosterkerk, even after the sale of this church building to the Pentecostal Church of Capelle aan den IJssel in 1981. This church was founded after the ecclesiastical schism of 1953 in the Reformed Church, in which around 100 members and baptised members from the local Reformed Church transferred to this church association. This department of the Reformed Church in the Netherlands was abolished in 1999.