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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.

Church in reconstruction style without tower. Adventist Church of the Seventh-day Adventists (SDA), congregation Rotterdam South. The church of this society in Rotterdam North is also called Advent Church.

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.

Reconstruction church without tower. From 1964 to 1974 also in use on Sundays by the Reformed Church. This church association then moved to Groningen, Floresplein 30 - Magnalia Dei Church .

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.

Modern church with tower, built 1965-1967. Celebration of the 50th anniversary of this church building in 2017. Has also been used for Roman Catholic celebrations for quite some time (fell under the parish of Hoogland). The last Roman Catholic celebration was on April 6, 2014.

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

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).

The Advent Church was built in 1966-1967 by order of the psychiatric institution Licht en Kracht (now the General Psychiatric Hospital Drenthe) to a design by the architects PL de Vrieze and AM Dekker from Groningen.

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