Dutch Reformed Church, Kerkplein
Mr&Mrs. Chris and Marleen Calor have adopted this page
but also that of Town Hall and Court of Police. It was not long before it was judged to small and from 1743 onwards the government services left the building.


Time lapse
The old domed church dating from 1810
In 1810 construction of a domed church, based on an octagonal was started, but it was lost in the big fire of 1821. It was only in 1833 that the decision was taken to build today’s church, which is clearly inspired by the octagonal domed church. Prince Willem Frederik Hendrik was present on the 5th of July 1835 at the inauguration of the church, which was finished in 1837.
A history of the Dutch Reformed Church in Suriname (in Dutch).

The interior features two rows of four Ionic pillars and a wooden barrel vault above the central aisle. Two magnificent artefacts made in mahogany embellish the interior: an organ from 1844 and a pulpit that is slightly older.
The church has a number of graves that lay mainly at the west end around the pulpit. When the square was still called Oranjetuin (Orange garden) it was a cemetery for the well-to-do.