French Church

The French church in Voorburg was built in 1726 for exiled French Calvinists, the Huguenots. It is a simple rectangular hall church without transepts or side aisles. The façade is a pilaster façade that juts out and extends further at the corners. The entrance consists of classical pilasters and a pediment. On the hipped roof, there is a masonry structure with a belfry and a weather vane.
Between 1680 and 1720, about 200,000 Huguenots fled France, as they were persecuted in Catholic France. Of these, between 35,000 and 50,000 ended up in the Republic, where the Reformed Church was the state church. They were welcomed as fellow believers rather than as asylum seekers.
In 1926, the French-language services came to an end. Only the name remains. The church building was rented out to the association of liberal religious people in Voorburg and became a Reformed Church in 1949.

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