{"id":46,"date":"2025-05-25T12:05:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T12:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steinkopf.co.za\/?p=46"},"modified":"2025-05-28T19:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T19:00:52","slug":"rhenish-mission-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinkopf.co.za\/index.php\/2025\/05\/25\/rhenish-mission-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhenish Mission Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/steinkopf.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/church-1-1024x698.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77\" style=\"width:441px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steinkopf.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/church-1-1024x698.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/steinkopf.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/church-1-600x409.jpg 600w, https:\/\/steinkopf.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/church-1-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steinkopf.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/church-1-768x524.jpg 768w, https:\/\/steinkopf.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/church-1-305x207.jpg 305w, https:\/\/steinkopf.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/church-1.jpg 1380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The church was the first church building in Steinkopf and was completed in 1849 in the time of rev. Ferdinand Brecher as missionary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mission house was completed in 1855 but was destroyed by a fire in November 1868. A new and larger house was constructed, but all the church records was destroyed by the fire. The government surveyor, Robert Moffat, who visited Steinkopf in 1855, did not give a give picture of the mission station: \u201cI was surprised by the wretched appearance of the station, which certainly does not betoken progress in the people. Saw only a mission house and chapel, the latter a very pretty building. There were two outhouses belonging to Bastards, one resembling a farmer\u2019s kitchen or rondawel. There was also a sort of garden, walled in. The fountain or spring a miserable affair. If properly attended to, the place might be much improved.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The church was the first church building in Steinkopf and was completed in 1849 in the time of rev. Ferdinand Brecher as missionary. The mission house was completed in 1855&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":false},"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"4":{"name":"History","link":"https:\/\/steinkopf.co.za\/index.php\/category\/history\/"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":false,"author_link":false},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/steinkopf.co.za\/index.php\/category\/history\/\" rel=\"category tag\">History<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The church was the first church building in Steinkopf and was completed in 1849 in the time of rev. Ferdinand Brecher as missionary. The mission house was completed in 1855&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinkopf.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinkopf.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinkopf.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinkopf.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinkopf.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/steinkopf.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/steinkopf.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinkopf.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinkopf.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinkopf.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}