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was founded, Keetmanshoop was the only NGK congregation with a tower church in the territory. It was also the first NGK church to have a pipe organ when a 35-register one was installed in
November 1950. Prior to the church's building, the congregation used a former smithy donated by the Gibeon church
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In 1950, the town already boasted one of the few high schools in SWA, the Hoërskool P.K. de
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Keetmanshoop-North separated from the mother church in 1958, but was reincorporated into it in 2000. With 578 confirmed members and 149 baptized members in 2012, Keetmanshoop was one of the largest congregations in
Namibia. At the end of 2014, the numbers were 534 and 125 respectively.
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