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The Fort Church (Dutch: Fortkerk) is a church of the United Protestant Community located in the court of Fort Amsterdam in Willemstad, Curaçao.The church dates from 1796, and is still in use.
The Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת מקווה ישראל-עמנואל, lit. 'Hope of Israel-Emanuel Synagogue'), is a Reconstructionist Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at Hanchi di Snoa 29, Punda, in the city of Willemstad, Curaçao, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in southern Caribbean Sea.
In 1963, construction started to transform the former estate of Plantersrust into a mosque. [1] It was built without government support, but with donations from Muslims in Saudi Arabia, Libya and Trinidad and Tobago.
Outgrowing the original establishment, in 1690, the Jewish community acquired a new house for worship, which was replaced by a proper synagogue in 1703. [5] A portion of the Jewish population emigrated to Newport, Rhode Island in 1694; historian Max J. Kohler surmised that this was because the Curaçao settlement had proved "unsuccessful" for ...
Its Meeting House, built from 1774 to 1775, was the largest building project in New England at that time and would seat 1,200 people, which equaled a third of Providence's population ...
Basilica of St. Anne in Willemstad, Curaçao. Curaçao is mostly Catholic, with 72.8% of Curaçao's population being members of the Catholic church. [1]The entire island falls within the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Willemstad, which also extends to Aruba, Bonaire, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten.
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