Blenduk church (GPIB Immanuel)

Blenduk Church is the oldest Christian church in Central Java is more precisely located in the city of Semarang, was built by a Dutch citizen who lived in that city in 1753, with a roof shaped hexagonal (eight square). sometimes spelled Blendug Church and is often pronounced as mBlendhug, this church is actually named GPIB Immanuel Church, at Jl. Letjend. Suprapto 32. Large dome-coated bronze, and in the building there is also a Baroque organ. Architecture in it based on a Greek cross. The church was renovated in 1894 by W. Westmaas and HPA de Wilde, who added the two towers in front of the church building. The name of Blenduk itself is the nickname of the surrounding community, which means dome. Until now the Church is still used every Sunday. Around the church Blenduk there are also other buildings from the Dutch colonial period.


Here is a list of priests who served in this church since the church was built to date:
1. Johannes Wilhelmus Swemmelaar (1753 – 1860)
2. David Daniel van Vianen (1760 – 1862)
3. Simon Gideon (1762 – 1866)

4. Cornelius Coetzier (1766 – 1872)
5. Jonas van Pietersom Ramring (1767 – 1870)
6. Johannes Lipsius (1772 – 1876)
7. HermanusWachter (1777)
8. Fredericus Montanus (1778 – 1814)
9. Gottlob Bruckner (1814 – 1816)
10. Dr.Diederik Lenting (1816 – 1817)
11. Gerardus van den Bijllaard (1819)
12. Dr.Diederik Lenting (1819 – 1820)
13. Gerardus van den Bijllaard (1820 – 1821)
14. Dominicus Anne Manstra (1821 - 1827 RIP)
15. Pieter van Laren (1828 – 1836)
16. Cornelis Pieter Lammers van Toorenburg (1836 – 1840)
17. Johannes Hendrik van Rossum (1840 – 1843)
18. Frederik Ulrich van Hengel (1843)
19. Hendrik Herman Schiff (1844 – 1847)
20. Jan Jurrien Scheuer (1847 – 1851)
21. Frederik Corneille van der Maar van Kulleler (1851 – 1864)
22. Frederik Ulrich van Hengel (1860 – 1871)
23. Pieter Leonard de Gaay Fortman (1864 – 1866)
24. Joseph Karel Kam (1866 – 1869)
25. Albert van Davelaar (1869 – 1873)
26. Barend Johannes Ovink (1871 – 1872)
27. Frederic Johan Jacobus Prins (1872 – 1875)
28. Caspar Adam Laurens van Trootensburg de Bruijn (1873)
29. Hendrik Sanders Balsem (1873 – 1874)
30. Haijte van Ameijdem van Duijm (1874 – 1885)
31. Barend Johannes Ovink (1875 – 1888)
32. Jan Faber (1885 – 1887)
33. Ijnze Radersma (1886 – 1889)
34. Haijte van Ameijdem van Duijm (1887 – 1890)
35. Willem Mallinckredt (1899 – 1894)
36. Dr.Wouterus van Lingen (1890 – 1895)
37. Cornelis Rogge (1892 – 1894)
38. Abraham Samuel Carpentier Alting (1895 – 1897)
39. Willem van Griethuijsen (1895 – 1897)
40. Dr.Wouterus van Lingen (1897)
41. Joan Frederic Verhoeff (1897 – 1898)
42. Johan Hendrik Christiaan Israel (1898 – 1899)
43. Johannes Cornelis Ijsbrand Bussingh de Vries (1898 – 1900)
44. Joan Frederic Verhoeff (1899 – 1904)
45. Dr.Aart Christian van Leeuwen (1900 – 1904 RIP)
46. Johannes Cornelis Ijsbrand Bussingh de Vries (1904 – 1904)
47. Johan Hendrik Christiaan Israel (1903)
48. Jean Henri de Vries (1904 – 1907)
49. Dr.Wouterus van Lingen (1904 – 1906)
50. Ari Adama (1905 – 1905)
51. Joan Frederic Verhoeff (1907 – 1908)
52. Tonke Pilon (1908 – 1910)
53. Evert van Loon (1909 – 1910)
54. Richeld Willem Frans Kyftenbelt (1910 – 1911)
55. Georg Hennemann (1910 – 1911)
56. Johannes Mechtelinus Coops (1911 – 1912)
57. Abraham Hagedoorn (1911 – 1919)
58. Warner van Griethuysen (1912 – 1914)
59. Jan Brink (1914 – 1921)
60. Dirk Jacobus Leepel (1919 – 1920)
61. Bernardus Johannes Audier (1920 – 1922)
62. Johannes Mechtelinus Coops (1921 – 1927)
63. Gerrit Jan Reindert Langen (1922 – 1928)
64. Johannes Arnoidus Rudolf Terlet (1927 – 1929)
65. Gijsbert Cornelis Anton Adriaan van den Wijngaard (1928 – 1930)
66. Bernardus Matthijs van Tangerloo (1930 – 1933)
67. Hermanus Sterrenga (1930 – 1931)
68. Johannes Matthijs Lindeijer (1931 – 1934)
69. Karel Frederik Creutzberg (1933 – 1934)
70. Jacques Louis Brinkerink (1934)
71. Cornelis Bastiaan Boere (1934 – 1936)
72. George Willem Cornelis Vunderink (1935 – 1941)
73. Wijsbrands Gerardus Redingius (1935 – 1940)
74. Karel Frederik Creutzberg (1936 – 1940)
75. Johana Hermina Stegeman (1940 – 1941)
76. Floris Egbertus van Leeuwen (1940 – 1943)
77. Johan Carel Hamel (1941 – 1942)
78. Eppa Smith (1945 – 1946)
79. Casper Spoor (1946 – 1949)
80. W.H.F. Ter Braak (1947 – 1949)
81. Eppa Smith (1949 – 1954)
82. de Haart (1954 – 1960)
83. Richard Palii (1954 – 1960)
84. Willem Bernard Warouw (1960 – 1963)
85. Augustinus Roberth Molle (1963 – 1967)
86. Jan Frederick Hattu (1967 – 1978)
87. Rein Robert Daada (1978 – 1984)
88. Yopie Hukom, S.Th. (1984 – 1988)
89. Theofilus Natumnea, S.Th. (1988 – 1992)
90. Rudolf Andreas Tendean, S.Th. (1992 – 1995)
91. Markus Kurami Tumakaka, S.Th. (1995 – 1998)
92. Meyer Meindert Pontoh, S.Th. (1998 – now)

This list can be found in the inscriptions found on the walls of the church building.