Ontmoetingskerk (formerly the Reformed church)

A new Roman Catholic church goes up on the Kerkstraat, replacing the small one already there. The old church was dedicated to St Anne; the new one took St Nicholas as its patron.

The Reformation reaches Nieuwveen. The 1559 church on the Kerkstraat passes into Reformed hands. The village's Catholics from now on belong to the parish of Zevenhoven.

The church on the Kerkstraat, built by the Catholics in 1559 and Reformed since 1578, is pulled down.
A likely cause of the building's poor condition is the draining of the polder twenty years earlier: the church stood on the edge of the drained polder, and its foundations subsided.

The foundation stone is laid for the new Reformed church on the same site. The architect is Elsmeyer of Nieuwkoop.
Under the State Regulation of 1798 the tower had become the property of the civil municipality, and it is therefore rebuilt at the municipality's commission, to a design by Theo Molkenboer of Leiden. The cost is estimated at 2,100 guilders.

The new Reformed church in the Kerkstraat is taken into use.

A two-manual organ with ten stops is built for the Reformed church by H. Knipscheer. The instrument has survived virtually unaltered; the independent pedal division is a later addition of 1968.

The tower of the Reformed church is altered.

The Hervormde Gemeente and the Gereformeerde Kerk of Nieuwveen merge into a single Protestant congregation.
Services are henceforth held in the former Reformed church on the Kerkstraat, completed in 1832, which on the merger is given the name "DE ONTMOETINGSKERK", the Meeting Church. The Gereformeerde church building taken into use in 1895 thereby loses its function.