[2] The first Reformed service was held on 1 September 1816 and Hermannus Pauw (born 1770) and Dirk Rijke (1789–1830) served as ministers 1816-1830.
The last Protestant service was held in the Temple on 21 August 1830; from 5 September the building was occupied by Belgian patriots.
In 1854 the congregation joined the Union of Evangelical Protestant Churches of Belgium and was given state recognition and a salary for the pastor.
After three months he discontinued his studies and moved to the Borinage region to work as a missionary in a mining community.
The church relocated from St. Katelijneplein to its current location at Nieuwe Graanmarkt in 1970 during the ministry of P. Fagel (pastor 1949-1972).