Kuipers, MariekeClarke, Nicholas John2024-07-242024-07-242023-06-15Kuipers, M. & Clarke, N. 2023, 'Missionary architect Pieter Simon Djikstra and his dutch works', Bulletin KNOB, 122, no. 3, pp. 36-52.0166-0470 (print)2589-3343 (online)http://hdl.handle.net/2263/97194In 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).en© 2023 Stichting OpenAccess.Protestant church designDutch historiographyReformed zuilSouth Africa (SA)Pieter Simon Djikstra (1884-1968)Missionary architectArticle