Mariental Reformed Church (NGK)
The Mariental Reformed Church is the oldest congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK) in Namibia and was founded in 1898 as the Gibeon Reformed Church. The Rev. E.J. Leonard, after whom the Leonard Reformed Church in Leonardville, Namibia, is named, was the first pastor of the congregation and for a number of years covered all of what was then South West Africa (SWA). After the foundation of the Moria Reformed Church, later known as the , the Mariental congregation still covered the whole southern half of Namibia. Keetmanshoop was the next to secede in 1924, but even after that separation, Mariental still covered an area as large as the entire Orange Free State. Three more congregations seceded in quick succession from 1944 onward: Leonard (1944), Maltahöhe Maltahöhe is a village in southern central Namibia close to the Swartrand escarpment, about 110 km west of Mariental in the Hardap Region. It has about 6,000 inhabitants and owns about 17,000 h ...
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Dutch Reformed Church In South Africa (NGK)
The Dutch Reformed Church (, abbreviated NGK) is a Reformed Christian denomination in South Africa. It also has a presence in neighbouring countries, such as Namibia, Eswatini, and parts of Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia.Map of NGK Synods
. NGK official website. Accessed 9 July 2014. In 2013 it claimed 1.1 million members and 1,602 ordained ministers in 1,158 congregations.NGK official English website
. Accessed 9 July 2014. The ''Nederduits'' in the denomination's Afrikaans name refers to the old for the