Wednesday, January 2, 2013

365 Day Photo Project 80/365 2013-01-01

Historic church
I have been talking about photographing this old church in the CBD of Krugersdorp for a while now. I always looked at the shots some of the participants on 365Project.org take of buildings and was convinced there was nothing similar around here. Great was my surprise when on my way to take the car in to be serviced I noticed this beatiful old building. This church is the place of worship for the congregations of the "Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk Krugersdorp and Krugerdorp-Noord" (The Dutch Reformed Church Krugersdorp and Krugersdorp North.) Despite an extensive search with the help of Mr Google I have not been able to establish how old the building is. The Krugersdorp congregation was established in 1891 and the Krugersdorp-North congregation in 1964 according to the official website of the "Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk". Unfortunately the property is fenced in and all the gates were locked so I was unable to search for a corner stone that might reveal this information.