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Evangelical Lutheran CHURCH. Characteristic building (19th century) on an approximately square plan, covered by three parallel hipped roofs behind the higher front facade, which has a central section with a pediment and plastered side wings with entrances. The round-arched windows and doors give the building a somewhat neo-Romanesque character. On the roof a domed tower. The church has a late 18th century pulpit, originating from the Mennonite church of Deventer. Domed tower with clock by Petit and Fritsen?, 1880?, diam. 66 cm.

Characteristic (Christian) Reformed church building, without tower. Temporarily also in shared use as Dutch Reformed Church.

Interesting, beautifully detached, modern church. Important and fairly well preserved example of Protestant church building from the reconstruction period. Also an example of a so-called storey church.

Small modern church without a tower.

The Adventkerk is a Dutch Reformed Church built in 1958 and designed by architect Sijmons, KL Dzn. It is an example of religious Brutalist architecture. It is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Modern church in pyramid shape, with a small bell tower to the right of the entrance, containing one bell. Built as a church building for the Seventh-day Adventists of Friesland, where the celebrations of this denomination take place on Saturdays. On Sundays also in use for celebrations of the Church of God. From 1981 also in use by the Reformed Church until 2003, when they moved to their own church building.

The Adventkirken is a Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Norwegian town of Bodø. Photo: Tom Angelsen

Seventh-day Adventist Church. Modern church without tower. Shared use on Sundays by the Assembly of Believers.

Important interbellum church with a large tower, 40 m high, to the right of the front facade. (Architecturally comparable in many respects to the Dutch Reformed New Bath Chapel in Scheveningen , designed by the same architect W. Ch. Kuijper).

Interesting modern church building that replaced the 'White Church '.