Vergadering van Gelovigen
Built as a Baptist church. Replaced a small church from 1918 that was destroyed during the war.
Built as a Baptist church. Replaced a small church from 1918 that was destroyed during the war.
Possibly in 1527, a Catholic church building was founded dedicated to Saint Barbara, who was, among other things, the patron saint of the polder workers. This church became a reformed church during the Eighty Years' War , when Breskens became Protestant. In fact, only the choir section remained, which was provided with a bell tower on the roof, so that the whole looked like a small church. This church was demolished in 1924 and replaced by a new church, doubling the number of seats. This church had a 30-metre-high tower and consisted of a skeleton of reinforced concrete that was covered with bricks. The church was built in a late neo-Gothic style. This church was destroyed by war actions during the Battle of the Scheldt at the end of 1944 .
The Sint Barbarakerk is a catholic emergency church from 1950 that was never replaced in a later period. The church is decorated with beautiful wood carvings and sculptures, made by emeritus pastor and sculptor Omer Gielliet. The statues of this artist can be found in many places in the Netherlands and Belgium. In and around the church, in the Europastraat, many of his statues stand and hang, including a crucifix made from a 10,000 year old tree trunk. On the facade of the church hang portraits of celebrities such as Pope John XXIII, Bishop Bekkers, Nelson Mandela, Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Along the path to the church are six sculptures and to the right of the path are the twelve apostles.
NH Church. Three-aisled hall church with a three-sided closed choir, a north choir and a tower with an octagonal superstructure and a spire. The oldest parts of the church date back to the 13th century; the tower with perpendicular buttresses dates from the 14th century. The nave and the north aisle were built in the second half of the 15th century. The south aisle served as a Walloon Church from 1618 to 1808 and was separated from the rest of the church around 1685. During a major renovation in 1868, the church was completely plastered on the outside and the windows were given new traceries. After a lightning strike, the tower was restored and deplastered in 1950. The interior is covered by a flat stucco ceiling from 1868. An important part of the interior is the pulpit with surrounding baptismal garden in Louis XVI style: donated in 1794 by descendants of Jacob Cats. The single manual organ was built in 1903 by JF Kruse (Leeuwarden).