Groote Kerk, Cape Town

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

The Groote Kerk (Afrikaans for "Great Church") is a Dutch Reformed church in Cape Town, South Africa. The church is South Africa's oldest place of 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 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, 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 tot 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