Elim Church

The Elim Church is a church of the Reformed churches in the Langeweg in 's-Gravenpolder in the Dutch province of Zeeland . The church is in 1977 built to a design by architect J. Fierloos. The brick church hall has 1,524 seats and is one of the larger churches in the Netherlands, measured by the number of seats. The church is crowned with high steeple of approximately 35 meters.



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 ==History [  edit ] == In May 1924, the Reformed Church of the Worsley instituted. On 19 September 1924 a private chapel was commissioned, the Elim Church on the Langeweg. On 11 September 1976 the first stone was laid for a new and larger church. This church had 700 seats. In 1990 the church was expanded with a gallery, leaving 400 seats retaliatory. In the summer of 2005 began with a major expansion. This became necessary because the church building had become too small. The church services are held temporarily in a warehouse on the Spoorstraat. The church hall has been expanded to 400 seats and the number of secondary spaces is from four to six. The extensive church is November 24, 2006 put into use. ==Church services [  edit ] == The services are in the experimental Reformed tradition, the proclamation of the Word is central. The congregation sings the psalms in the rhyming of 1773 . The Reformed Congregations of the Worsley has about 1,900 members. ==The organ [  edit ] == The expansion of the church building was also required to Fama & Counselor organ from 1979 to expand, in order to accompany the singing of the larger number of churchgoers.
 * 1 History
 * 2 Church services
 * 3 organ

Under the advice of the advisory committee of the organ- Reformed churches this work was realized by the firm A. Nijsse & Zn. During the renovation of the church's organ was moved to the center of the church building. The greenhouse was extended with a pedal tower, the cashier of the main work was deepened and new rugwerkkas was made to get more height and depth. The main work tray and a pedal drawer were made new. On 22 June 2007 the enlarged organ is inaugurated. This is the 29th in size organ in the Netherlands. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]