Dutch Reformed Church (Grotekerk), Graaff-Reinet

This cute Dutch Reformed Church is withinside the Eastern Cape Province town of Graaff-Reinet. On the 12th April 1886, the inspiration stone modified into laid for the fourth and present day church this is Gothic Revival and based totally absolutely on the lines of Salisbury Cathedral in England with the inaugural sermon added on the 11th September 1887. The stone for this church modified into acquired locally and the church which could seat 1,250 and has a steeple of 45, seventy- meters boasts a chimney, an unusual feature for a church. The church is one of the historic landmarks in Graaff Reinet.

The Dutch Reformed Church changed into the biggest Christian denomination withinside the Netherlands from the onset of the Protestant Reformation till 1930. It changed into the most Protestant denomination, and—given that 1892—one of the primary Reformed denominations in conjunction with the Reformed Churches withinside the Netherlands.

It unfold to the United States, South Africa, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Brazil, and diverse different global areas thru the Dutch colonization. It changed into the authentic denomination of the Dutch Royal Family till being merged into the Protestant Church withinside the Netherlands, a United church of each Reformed and Evangelical Lutheran theological orientations. The allegiance to the Dutch Reformed Church changed into a not unusualplace function amongst Dutch immigrant groups round the arena and have become a essential a part of Afrikaner nationalism in South Africa.

Classification: Protestant
Orientation: Reformed
Theology: Calvinism
Origin: 4 October 1571Emden, County of East Frisia in the Holy Roman EmpireJoined the Protestant Church in the Netherlands in 2004
Separated from: catholic Church in the Netherlands.