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Large modern church with tower. Seats 950. Replaced an earlier church building.

Characteristic Reformed neo-church with tower. Renovated in 1888 and 1911. Refurbished in 2010.

On 11 December 1913, 'De Gereformeerde Kerk te Nieuwlande' was instituted. On 8 June 1914, the first stone was laid and in August of that year 'Eben Haëzer' was put into use. The well-known reformed resistance fighter Johannes Post hid people in hiding in this church during the Second World War. The hiding place can still be seen. The Stichting Het Drentse Landschap will investigate whether the church can be preserved in some way. Nieuwlande played a special role in the war and received a Yad Vashem award for it. Of course, Nieuwlande wants to keep that past alive. 'The new destination for the reformed church in the village can play an important role in this'. It is not without reason that the church is located on the Johannes Poststraat.

Initially the name was "Gereformeerde Kerk van Nieuw Dordrecht". At the end of 1938 a proposal was made to change this name to "Gereformeerde kerk van Klazienaveen". "Among the incoming documents at the meeting of 14 November 1939 a letter stating that the name change has been approved." At a meeting of 22 April 1891 in Nieuw Amsterdam there was a proposal: "with regard to the matter of Nieuw-Dordrecht the church council expresses the wish that, given the circumstances, it is necessary to establish an independent congregation". The church was initially given the name of Nieuw Dordrecht, because a brother wanted to build the church at cafe Lufting on the road from Klazienaveen to Nieuw Dordrecht.

Modern church without tower. "Refodome". To replace the former church building. The commissioning of this church building took place on 22 June 1984. In 1984, this church building was expanded with 302 seats, bringing the total to 912. An extension was built perpendicular to the church hall, on the west side. There was also more hall space. In 1999, the church building was expanded again on the east side, adding 248 seats. The total then came to 1095 without pull-out benches and extra chairs.

In 1983, the association building of the Dutch Reformed Church in Ouddorp was first built at this location. From 1989 to 2010, church services were also held in the building. The building was owned by the Eben Haëzer Foundation until 2013, after which it was transferred to the Reformed Church. In 2012 and 2013 a completely new Reformed Church with 1,071 seats was built at the association building. This building is called 'Eben-Haëzerkerk' .

Reformed Church. One of the oldest houses of worship built for the Reformed Church, around 1840, consisting of a simple hall church with round-arched windows and an entrance door in a simple classicist frame, next to which is a parsonage with a storey and windows with six- and eight-pane sliding windows. The church and parsonage are covered by an elongated pantile hipped roof.

On the border with Drenthe (Havelterberg). The neighborhood association has an agreement with the Protestant Community of Steenwijk that the church building is used free of charge every Sunday morning for church services that fall under its authority.

Former Roman Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception from 1923, which was decommissioned in 1965.

The Reconstruction. Demolished in 1978. Replaced by the current church Eben Haëzer.