The church of Saint John the Baptist is a Roman Catholic church in Pijnacker in the Netherlands.
The church is cruciform and built in the neo-Romanesque style. It was built in 1892 and is the work of architect, Adrianus Bleijs.
When built it was within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Haarlem which was later renamed the Roman Catholic Diocese of Haarlem-Amsterdam. When diocesan boundaries were redrawn it became part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rotterdam. It The name of the church has several variations. The parish website officially shows it as "H. Joannes de Dooper," but others list it as Heilige Johannes de Doper
Above the entrance door of the church is found a bas-relief showing the baptism of Jesus by John.
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Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
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