Reformed Church
In the centre of Appingedam you will find the Gereformeerde Kerk Appingedam. A hall church designed in Amsterdam School style.
Take a closer look
There has been a church on this spot in Appingedam for many years. The first signs of a church on this site date back to 1852. In the years since, a lot has changed about the building and its surroundings.
The current church was finally built in 1927. Egbert Reitsma designed a rather sober hall church in Amsterdam School style, with a high parabolic ceiling, stained-glass windows and geometric ceiling paintings. Its appearance is strongly determined by the purple-brown sintered bricks, which are deformed through-baked bricks with dark colour shades, worked in different masonry dressings. The church has a rectangular floor plan and is wider than its predecessor. Light enters through glass panels in the gabled roof. At the back, the roof is so heavily flared that the tiles there serve as cladding.