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Aka: Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk (Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa) Built: 1972 Architect: Unidentified Location: R114, Roodepoort. View from north (1972)¹ The church was inaugurated on 15 April 1972. It was built on 3 morgan of donated land. " Die argitek het daarin geslaag om binne in die kerk 'n besondere ruimte van aanbidding daar te stel. Die kerk skep 'n koel en rustige atmosfeer. Daarmee wens ons hom geluk. " Locality map Sources Dreyer, T.F.J. Jr. (1972)  Gemeente Noordrand se nuwe Kerkgebou. Die Hervormer, July 1972.  

Aka: Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk (Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa) Built: 1972-1973 Architect: Unidentified Location: Payne St, Witpoortjie, Roodepoort. View from north (1973)¹ The congregation seceded from Roodepoort in 1958. The congregation began with a professing membership of fewer than 300, four stands in Witpoortjie, seventy chairs, one small table, and £650.  During the nine years that Rev. J.A. Swanepoel was in Witpoortjie, a parsonage (1960) and a church hall (1961) were built. By the middle of 1969, a massive expansion of the Witpoortjie suburb took place. Three additional stands were purchased in a new, expanding area, Wilropark, and the land on which the church hall stood was exchanged with the Town Council of Roodepoort for a much larger and better-situated piece of land to build the new church complex. The town council paid thirty thousand rand for the church hall to convert it into a library. On 18 November 1972, the cornerstone of the new church building w...