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Old Voortrekker Church, Church Street, Lydenburg Type of site: Church. The earlier of the two churches, known as the Voortrekker Church, was erected between 1851 and 1853 and is the oldest Dutch Reformed Church building in the Transvaal. The later church building, which was consecrated in 1894, was built in the Neo-Gothic style. Lydenburg ...
Lydenburg, also known as Mashishing, [2] [3] is a town in Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, on the Mpumalanga highveld, South Africa. It is situated on the Sterkspruit/Dorps River tributary of the Lepelle River at the summit of the Long Tom Pass .
June 12, 1923: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Lydenburg from the Apostolic Vicariate of Transvaal; December 9, 1948: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Lydenburg; January 11, 1951: Promoted as Diocese of Lydenburg; September 13, 1964: Renamed as Diocese of Lydenburg – Witbank; November 10, 1987: Renamed as Diocese of Witbank
Old Reformed Church, Nylstroom The historic old church building of the Waterberg Reformed Church was built in 1889 and was taken into use on 23 November of that year. President Paul Kruger of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek was present on this occasion. During the Anglo-Boer War a wing Type of site: Church.
The church was built of stone alternated with three rows of bricks. It is 15.75 by 8.40 metres (51.7 ft × 27.6 ft) in size. The church was the place where the anti-Byzantine Uprising of Asen and Peter was proclaimed in 1185; it was this uprising that led to the reestablishment of the Bulgarian Empire and the proclamation of Tarnovo for its ...
Borgund stave church, Norway, late 12th century Old Olden Church, a 1759 log building. In Norway, church architecture has been affected by wood as the preferred material, particularly in sparsely populated areas. Churches built until the second world war are about 90% wooden except medieval constructions.
History. The Republic of Lydenburg was founded after a group of Boers had separated from the Potchefstroom Republic in 1856. The village of Lydenburg was founded in 1849 by a group of Voortrekkers led by Hendrik Potgieter after they had left their previous settlement near Ohrigstad in the North due to a malaria epidemic.
The church added a basement in the 1950s, and added the new church in 1997 (keeping the old church in its location). As of October 27, 2021, they will celebrated their 183rd Anniversary being the 6th oldest church in Illinois, 49th oldest in the United States and the 224th oldest in the world.