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The Langlaagte Reformed Church (originally called Witwatersrand West) was the 28th congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK) on the Transvaal and the second in Johannesburg after the Johannesburg Reformed Church (NGK) (1887). The congregation is well known as the spiritual home of the Langlaagte orphanage, later named the Abraham Kriel Children’s Home after Rev. Abraham Kriel, who founded it as pastor of Langlaagte.
The Langlaagte Reformed Church existed for 104 years until 1996-97, when it was absorbed by the Vergesig Reformed Church (based in the Brixton Reformed Church building). The Fordsburg Reformed Church (eventually renamed Gold City or Goudstad) had already been absorbed by Langlaagte in 1988, prompting a renaming of the latter to Goudlaagte. Langlaagte restored its original name by the time of its absorption.