Named after the Graafstroom canal which runs through it, the Graafstroom municipality is located in the western part of the Alblasserwaard region and covers the villages Oud-Alblas, Wijngaarden, Bleskensgraaf (administrative centre), Brandwijk, Molenaarsgraaf, Goudriaan and Ottoland.
Apart from its Gothic tower, dating from 1393, the reformed church of Oud-Alblas is a building in rather plain neo-Classical style, built in 1841.
Location: Dorpsstraat 52
The reformed church of Wijngaarden is a small one-aisled Gothic building dating from the 14th or 15th century. It's all that is left of a bigger church.
Location: Dorpsstraat 27
Bleskensgraaf
was largely destroyed by German bombs on May 12th 1940. Its old church
was not rebuilt but replaced in 1948 by the current reformed
church, a building in Traditionalistic style,
designed by G.
van Hoogevest.
Location: Kerkstraat 6
The reformed church
of Molenaarsgraaf is a tower-less building in Gothic style, built in
the 15th and 16th centuries.
Location: Dorpsstraat 28
The reformed church of Brandwijk was built in 1824 and replaced a Gothic church. The tower was probably added later.
Location: Brandwijksedijk 19
Eben
Haëzer is the church of the Gereformeerden of Brandwijk. It
was built in 1897 and is in a neo-Classical style like so
many churches built by this denomination in the late 19th century.
Location: Gijbelandsedijk 54
The reformed
church of Ottoland dates from 1732 and was built in a
simple Classical style. It was designed by Jan Pluym, town-architect of
Dordrecht.
Location: A 59
The Gereformeerde kerk was, like several other churches of the same denomination in this region, built in the shape of a farmbuilding, with vicarage and church forming a single building. This church dates from 1888 and is in neo-Classical style.
Location: A 88
The reformed church of Goudriaan originally was a cruciform building, but it was drastically rebuilt after a storm damaged it in 1747. The choir and the tower are its oldest parts.
Location: Noordzijde 17