Abstract:
In South Africa, the Dutch architect P.S. Dijkstra/
Dykstra (1884-1968) is considered an important innovator
in Protestant church design. Yet his work gets
barely a mention in Dutch historiography. His early
twentieth-century oeuvre is especially interesting
from a cultural-historical point of view, because it is
closely linked to the Reformed zuil (pillar: one of the
diverse socio-culturally cohesive groups based on a
specific worldview that founded their own institutions,
varying from newspapers to housing corporations
and suchlike).
