Dutch Reformed Church, Ficksburg

The Dutch Reformed Church in Ficksburg is an Eastern Free State congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church with its centre in the town of Ficksburg. When the congregation was founded in 1869, it was only the 13th congregation in the Free State Synod. The congregation celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2019.

From 1970 to 1999, the congregation of Ficksburg-Noord existed alongside the mother congregation here, but in the latter year it was incorporated into the Ficksburg congregation, even though the professing members of the congregations together in 1999 were barely 200 fewer than when they split off 29 years earlier. The only other Free State towns that have only one Dutch Reformed congregation after incorporation are Hennenman (both the East and West congregations were incorporated into the mother congregation at the same time in 2012) and Viljoenskroon (the East congregation was incorporated into the mother congregation in 2011). However, within the next 15 years this decreased sharply from 1 153 to 656 in 2014 as a result of the larger charismatic churches that were established in the town.