Stichting Turkish Church Network

One church for 760,000 people.

We are pioneers in church planting and do work that has yet to be done. We start new churches, connect them and support them.

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Why we exist

More than 760,000 people of Turkish background live in the Netherlands. For them there is, as far as we know, currently one Turkish-speaking church.

We connect churches and workers, start new churches and support them. Deliberately, and for the long term.

760,000 Turks in the Netherlands
1 Turkish-speaking church

Our goal is one Turkish-speaking church in every major city of the Netherlands.

City by city

Each circle is one of the 25 cities, at its real location, with an area proportional to its population. Coordinates: GeoNames. One circle is accented: Rotterdam, where the one Turkish-speaking church we know of meets.

Twenty five cities above one hundred thousand inhabitants. In one of them a Turkish-speaking church meets.

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Population: World Population Review 2026 (GeoNames). The CBS definition of municipalities gives a different count.
CityInhabitantsTurkish-speaking churchas far as we know
Amsterdam1,193,995no
Rotterdam893,315yes
Den Haag890,068no
Utrecht423,526no
Eindhoven333,059no
Leiden282,034no
Dordrecht227,455no
Groningen226,756no
Tilburg224,758no
Haarlem216,022no
Almere197,602no
's-Hertogenbosch170,112no
Heerlen167,205no
Nijmegen163,287no
Amersfoort161,165no
Breda158,387no
Enschede149,623no
Apeldoorn147,949no
Zwolle130,770no
Zoetermeer130,191no
IJmond121,600no
Arnhem117,445no
Maastricht117,062no
Alkmaar105,461no
Sittard-Geleen105,195no

What we do

We connect churches, church workers and supporters who care about Turkish-speaking people in the Netherlands, at home and abroad.

If we see the Lord bringing together the right combination of mature Christians, seekers and willing partners, we bring them together for a church plant.

New churches cannot stand without support in their early years. We support them financially, with prudence and accountability, until they can stand on their own.

Giving

We trust in the Lord, but you count the cost if you are going to build a tower.

Your gift goes directly to starting and supporting new churches.

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Contact

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Address

Hofplein 20
3032 AC Rotterdam