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Church History
The First
Reformed Church of Rotterdam was started as a mission church of the First
Reformed Church of Schenectady in 1784 and was known as The Woestina Church.
Woestina means wilderness and that is where our church got it’s start. It was built on a site on the north side of
the Mohawk River on Wolf Hollow Road in what is now
Glenville. In 1812 the church building
was dismantled and moved across the frozen Mohawk River to its present
location on the south side of the river in the Town of Rotterdam.
It was reassembled and used for worship until Saturday, November 9,
1935 when it was completely destroyed by fire. At 8:00 on that autumn Saturday morning, the
Pastor's wife looked out the parsonage window to see the church building
ablaze. Firefighters from several
companies were on the scene very soon. However, there was little they could
do to stop the fire that was already a blazing inferno.
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