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The Nieuwe Kerk (Dutch: [ˈniu.ə ˈkɛr(ə)k], lit. ' New Church ') [1] is a 15th-century church in Amsterdam located on Dam Square, next to the Royal Palace. Formerly a Dutch Reformed Church parish, it now belongs to the Protestant Church in the Netherlands.
The Dutch Reformed Church went with migrants to the Americas, beginning in 1628 in New Amsterdam. St. St. Thomas Reformed Church, founded in 1660 in St. Thomas , Danish West Indies , [ 2 ] became the first Dutch Reformed Church in the Caribbean .
Everardus Bogardus (27 July 1607 – 27 September 1647) was the dominie of the New Netherlands, and was the second minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, the oldest established church in present-day New York, which was then located on Pearl Street at its first location built in 1633, the year of his arrival.
Marble Collegiate Church, on Fifth Avenue at 29th Street. The Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church is a Dutch Reformed congregation in Manhattan, New York City, which has had a variety of church buildings and now exists in the form of four component bodies: the Marble, Middle, West End and Fort Washington Collegiate Church, all part of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Churches of New York.
Aucke Janse Van Nuys (1622-1698) was a carpenter and a government official in New Amsterdam. He built the Brooklyn Ferry, the First Dutch Reformed Church in Flatbush, NY, the longest standing place of worship in New York City, and some of the earliest structures in what is now New York City. He was appointed town Shepen or Magistrate in 1673.
Second Dutch Reformed Church (New Amsterdam) (c.1643) -- The second church was located within Fort Amsterdam's walls. The stone church had a spire with a weathercock, and was the tallest structure in the city. After the fall of New Amsterdam to the British, the structure was reused as a military garrison church for the Episcopal faith. [1]
In 1628, Jonas Michaelius organized the first Dutch Reformed congregation in New Amsterdam, now New York City, called the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, now The Collegiate Churches of New York. During Dutch rule, the RCA was the established church of the colony and was under the authority of the classis of Amsterdam.
History of the Churches in the Netherlands. The Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Dutch: Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland, abbreviated Gereformeerde kerk) [1] was the second largest Protestant church in the Netherlands and one of the two major Calvinist denominations along with the Dutch Reformed Church since 1892 until being merged into the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN) in 2004.