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The Walvis Bay Reformed Church is a congregation of the Reformed Churches in South Africa (GKSA) in the town of Walvis Bay, Namibia, but also includes nearby Swakopmund. The Henties Bay Reformed Church broke away in 2006, but the Walvis Bay pastor continues to handle it concurrently. Walvis Bay's membership was 267 in 2015, more or less evenly split between Walvis Bay and Swakopmund. Services are held in both towns every Sunday.
Walvis Bay started as a district of the Usakos Reformed Church, founded in 1953 as a likely offshoot of the Windhoek Reformed Church. Until 1955, services in Walvis Bay were held in the Freemasons' lodge and later in the courthouse, members' houses, and the Emma Hoogenhout Primary School meeting hall. The district acquired two plots of land from the city government for £1. A construction fund was founded with money from the Usakos church council. On October 27, 1956, the area of Walvis Bay, Swakopmund, and Henties Bay was given its own congregation, draining so many members from the Usakos congregation that the latter dissolved four years after.
In 1960, the young congregation hired Jac H. van Zanten as architect and J. Eisenberg as contractor. In 1961, a third of the church building was completed, including the pews and communion altar, and 40 chairs had been purchased. After fundraising and a contribution from a Rev. Bos from the Netherlands, the building was finished according to the original plan in 1970. The Rev. Bos also contributed the pulpit.
On November 8, 2009, the around 100 GKSA worshipers in Swakopmund began to use their own church building. The Sola Gratia church is built atop a flat wing of the local Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK), which had to use the same building at the time.
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