Synagogue in Winschoten

Built as a Reformed Evangelism room. The tower was built in 1901.

Built as a single-nave hall church without a tower in an expressionist style, influenced by the Amsterdam School. The Catholic Apostolic Church is a chiliastic church community, founded as a result of an ecumenical prayer movement in Great Britain, which had been led by apostles since 1832. The last apostle, Francis Valentine Woodhouse, died on 3 February 1901. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Catholic Apostolic Church had approximately 200,000 members in almost 1000 congregations worldwide, with 17 congregations in the Netherlands. Today, the Netherlands still has approximately 700 members, divided over 5 congregations in The Hague, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Amersfoort and Scheemda. All 5 church buildings are architecturally interesting, some have neo-Gothic facades. Since 1901, several of the 17 municipalities mentioned at the time have also been abolished, and the associated church buildings have been demolished or repurposed. A fine example of repurposing is the neo-Gothic church building in Arnhem on Parkstraat, now a funeral home.

With the reclamation of the peat colonies around 1600, the village of Oude Pekela was founded. Not much later, between 1683 and 1685, they built a simple hall church, financed by the city of Groningen, which also became the owner of the church.