chruch blenduk semarang

Church Blenduk Semarang

Blenduk Church in the 1930's
Church Blenduk now
Blenduk Church (sometimes spelled Blendug Church and often pronounced as mBlendhug) is the oldest Christian Church in Central Java built by the Dutch who live in the city in 1753, with a hexagonal shape (square eight). The church is actually named GPIB Immanuel Church, on Jl. Letjend. Suprapto 32. Large dome, covered in bronze, and in it there is a Baroque organ. Architecture in it is based on a Greek cross. The church was renovated in 1894 by W. Westmaas and H.P.A. de Wilde, who added the two towers in front of the church. Blenduk name is the nickname of the local community, which means dome. The church is at present still used every Sunday. Around the church there are also a number of other buildings from the Dutch colonial period.


List of pastors

Here is a list of pastors who served the church since the church was built to date. This list can be found in the inscriptions found on the walls of the church building. [1]
Johannes Wilhelmus Swemmelaar (1753-60)
David Daniel van Vianen (1760-62)
Gideon Simon (1762-66)
Coetzier Cornelius (1766-72)
Jonas van Pietersom Ramring (1767-70)
Lipsius Johannes (1772-76)
HermanusWachter (1777)
Frederick Montanus (1778 - 1814)
Gottlob Bruckner (1814 - 1816)
Dr.Diederik Lenting (1816-17)
Gerard van den Bijllaard (1819)
Dr.Diederik Lenting (1819-20)
Gerard van den Bijllaard (1820-21)
Dominicus Anne Manstra (1821-27 RIP)
Pieter van Laren (1828-36)
Pieter Cornelis van Toorenburg Lammers (1836-40)
Johannes Hendrik van Rossum (1840-43)
Ulrich Frederik van Hengel (1843)
Herman Hendrik Schiff (1844-47)
January Jurrien Scheuer (1847-51)
Frederik van der Maar Corneille van Kulleler (1851-64)
Ulrich Frederik van Hengel (1860-71)
Pieter Leonard de Gaay Fortman (1864-66)
Joseph Karel Thurs (1866-69)
Albert van Davelaar (1869-73)
Barend Johannes Ovink (1871-72)
Frederic Johan Jacobus Prins (1872-75)
Caspar Adam Laurens van Trootensburg de Bruijn (1873)
Hendrik Sanders Balm (1873-74)
Haijte van Ameijdem van Duijm (1874 - 1885)
Barend Johannes Ovink (1875 - 1888)
January Faber (1885-87)
Ijnze Radersma (1886-89)
Haijte van Ameijdem van Duijm (1887-90)
Willem Mallinckredt (1899-94)
Dr.Wouterus van Lingen (1890-95)
Cornelis Rogge (1892-94)
Abraham Samuel Carpentier Alting (1895-97)
Willem van Griethuijsen (1895-97)
Dr.Wouterus van Lingen (1897)
Joan Frederic Verhoeff (1897-98)
Johan Hendrik Christiaan Israel (1898-99)
Johannes Cornelis Ijsbrand Bussingh de Vries (1898 - 1900)
Joan Frederic Verhoeff (1899 - 1904)
Dr.Aart Christian van Leeuwen (1900-04 RIP)
Johannes Cornelis Ijsbrand Bussingh de Vries (1904-04)
Johan Hendrik Christiaan Israel (1903)
Jean Henri de Vries (1904-07)
Dr.Wouterus van Lingen (1904-06)
Ari Adama (1905-05)
Joan Frederic Verhoeff (1907-08)
Tonke Pilon (1908-10)
Evert van Loon (1909-10)
Frans Willem Richeld Kyftenbelt (1910-11)
Georg Hennemann (1910-11)
Johannes Mechtelinus Coops (1911-12)
Abraham Hagedoorn (1911-19)
Warner van Griethuysen (1912-14)
January Brink (1914-21)
Dirk Jacobus Leepel (1919-20)
Bernardus Johannes Audier (1920-22)
Johannes Mechtelinus Coops (1921-27)
Gerrit January Reindert Langen (1922-28)
Terlet Arnoidus Rudolf Johannes (1927-29)
Gijsbert Anton Adriaan Cornelis van den Wijngaard (1928-30)
Matthijs van Tangerloo Bernard (1930-33)
Hermanus Sterrenga (1930-31)
Johannes Matthijs Lindeijer (1931-34)
Karel Frederik Creutzberg (1933-34)
Jacques Louis Brinkerink (1934)
Bastiaan Cornelis Boere (1934-36)
George Willem Cornelis Vunderink (1935-41)
Gerard Wijsbrands Redingius (1935-40)
Karel Frederik Creutzberg (1936-40)
Johana Hermina Stegeman (1940-41)
Egbertus Floris van Leeuwen (1940-43)
Johan Carel Hamel (1941-42)
Eppa Smith (1945-46)
Casper Spoor (1946-49)
W.H.F. Ter Braak (1947-49)
Eppa Smith (1949-54)
de HAART (1954-60)
Richard Palii (1954-60)
Warouw Willem Bernard (1960-63)
Augustine Roberth Molle (1963-67)
January Frederick Hattu (1967-78)
Robert Rein Daada (1978-84)
Yopie Hukom, S.Th. (1984-88)
Theophilus Natumnea, S.Th. (1988-92)
Andreas Rudolf Tendean, S.Th. (1992-95)
Mark Kurami Tumakaka, S.Th. (1995-98)
Meyer Meindert Pontoh, S.Th. (1998 - now)