Groote Kerk, Cape Town




Church in Cape Town, South Africa



























Groote Kerk

Groote Kerk, Adderley Street, Cape Town.JPG
Groote Kerk


33°55′29″S 18°25′15″E / 33.9248°S 18.4209°E / -33.9248; 18.4209Coordinates: 33°55′29″S 18°25′15″E / 33.9248°S 18.4209°E / -33.9248; 18.4209
Location Cape Town
Country South Africa
Denomination Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk
History
Founded 1841
Architecture
Functional status Church

The Groote Kerk (Afrikaans and Dutch for "Great Church") is a Dutch Reformed church in Cape Town, South Africa. The church is South Africa's oldest place of Christian worship, built by Herman Schuette in 1841. The first church on this land was built in 1678. Willem Adriaan van der Stel laid the cornerstone for the church. It was replaced by the present building in 1841, but the original tower was retained. The pulpit is the work of Anton Anreith and the carpenter Jacob Graaff, and was inaugurated on 29 November 1789. The Groote Kerk lays claim to housing South Africa's largest organ, which was installed in 1954 and has 5917 pipes.



List of ministers




The interior




The pulpit



  1. Joan van Arckel, 1665 - 1666

  2. Petrus Wachtendorp, 1666 - 1667

  3. Adriaan de Vooght, 1667 - 1674

  4. Rudolpus Meerlandt, 1674 - 1675

  5. Petrus Hulsenaar, 1675 - 1677

  6. Johannes Overney, 1678 - 1687

  7. Johannes van Andel, 1687 - 1689

  8. Leonardus Terwoldt, 1689 - 1695

  9. Hercules van Loon, 1695 - 1697

  10. Petrus Kalden, 1697 - 1708

  11. Engelbertus Franciscus le Boucq, 1707 - 1708

  12. Johannes Godefridus D'Ailly, 1708 - 1726

  13. Lambertus Slicher, 1723 - 1725

  14. Hendrik Beck, 1726 - 1731

  15. Franciscus le Seuer, 1729 - 1746

  16. Henricus Cock, 1732 - 1743

  17. Ruardus van Cloppenburgh, 1746 - 1748


  18. Petrus van der Spuy, 1746 - 1752

  19. Henricus Kronenburg, 1752 - 1779

  20. Gerhardus Croeser, 1754 - 1755

  21. Christiaan Benjamin Voltelen, 1755 - 1758

  22. Johannes Frederik Bode, 1758 - 1760

  23. Johannes Petrus Serrurier, 1760 - 1802

  24. Christiaan Fleck, 1781 - 1822


  25. Meent Borcherds, 1785 - 1786


  26. Helperus Ritzema van Lier, 1786 - 1793


  27. Abraham Kuys, 1794 - 1799


  28. Johan Heinrich von Manger, 1802 - 1839

  29. Johannes Christoffel Berrange, 1817 - 1827

  30. Dr. Abraham Faure, 1822 - 1867

  31. Johannes Spijker, 1834 - 1864

  32. Stephanus Petrus Heyns, 1839 - 1873

  33. Dr. Andrew Murray, 1864 - 1871


  34. Georg Stegmann jr., 1867 - 1880

  35. Dr. William Robertson [af], 1872 - 1874


  36. Gilles van de Wall, 1874 - 1875


  37. Anton Daniël Lückhoff, 1875 - 1886

  38. Dr. Johannes Jacobus Kotzé, 1880 - 1899


  39. Abraham Isaac Steytler, 1881 - 1915

  40. Christoffel Frederic Jacobus Muller, 1887 - 1890


  41. Adriaan Moorrees, 1892 - 1895

  42. Charles Morgan, 1893 - 1896

  43. Francis Xavier Roome, 1895 - 1937

  44. Zacharia Johannes de Beer, 1895 - 1923

  45. Louis Hugo, 1897 - 1907

  46. Dr. Johannes Petrus van Heerden, 1899 - 1935

  47. Dr. Johannes du Plessis, 1899 - 1903

  48. Dr. Barend Johannes Haarhoff, 1905 - 1912

  49. Gerrit Johannes du Plessis, 1906 - 1912

  50. Johannes Stephanus Hauman, 1908 - 1918

  51. Daniel Gerhardus Malan, 1918 - 1921

  52. Pieter Basson Ackermann, 1918 - 1922

  53. Daniel Stephanus Burger Joubert, 1921 - 1925

  54. Willem Ferdinand Louw, 1922 - 1929

  55. Dr. Abraham van der Merwe, 1926 - 1966

  56. Jacobus Delarey Conradie, 1936 - 1967

  57. Pieter du Toit, 1938 - 1943

  58. Johannes Gerhardus Janse van Vuuren, 1945 - 1954, 1963 - 1986

  59. Willem Adolf Landman, 1958 - 1979

  60. Petrus Andries van Zyl, 1958 - 1960

  61. Johannes Mattheus Delport, 1960 - 1963

  62. Jacobus van der Westhuizen, 1968 - 1997

  63. Erasmus Adriaan van Niekerk, 1972 - 1975

  64. Abraham Johannes Prins, 1975 - 1981

  65. Petrus Johannes Botes, 1981 - 2009

  66. Gideon de Wit, 2003 - current

  67. Johan Taute van Rooyen, 2011 - current



External links







  • Official website


  • Site by Groote Kerk, Adderley Street, Cape Town, at SAHRA










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