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The Toringkerk in the Paarl was separated in 1875 as the NG congregation Noorder-Paarl from the NG congregation Paarl, also known as the Strooidakkerk. Like many other congregations, this congregation also owed its origin to mutual struggle and division. In addition to the longing for better spiritual cultivation in a town that was already getting too big for just one NG congregation, the deeper-lying cause of division in the Paarl was the awakening of a national consciousness among the Afrikaners in the second half of the 19th century. From the struggle for the maintenance of the Paarl Gymnasium, the famous free church school for Christian and mother tongue education founded in 1858 by Rev. G.W.A. van der Lingen was founded, and what was described at the time as a "small island in the sea of anglicization in the country", the municipality of Noorder-Paarl was founded. The congregation was a strong supporter of the school from the outset and even accepted financial responsibilit ...
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Paarl
Paarl (; ; derived from ''parel'', meaning "pearl" in Dutch) is a city with 294,457 inhabitants in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is the largest city in the Boland, Western Cape, Cape Winelands. Due to the growth of the Mbekweni township, it is now a de facto urban unit with Wellington, Western Cape, Wellington. It is situated about northeast of Cape Town in the Western Cape Province and is known for its scenic environment and viticulture and fruit-growing heritage. Paarl is the seat of the Drakenstein Local Municipality; although not part of the Cape Town metropolitan area, it falls within its economic catchment. Paarl is unusual among South African place-names, in being pronounced differently in English than in Afrikaans; likewise unusual about the town's name is Afrikaners customary attachment to it, saying not ''in Paarl'', but rather ''in die Paarl'', or ''in die PĂȘrel'' (literally, "in the Paarl"). Paarl gained additional international attention when, o ...
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