St. Bernard Church

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The St. Bernard Church (Papiamento: Parokia San Bernardo) is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in the city of Kralendijk, the capital of the Caribbean island of Bonaire, a territory in the Caribbean Netherlands organised as a special municipality of the Netherlands in the Antilles. The temple follows the Roman or Latin rite and depends on the Catholic Diocese of Willemstad on the neighbouring island of Curaçao, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The yellow and white colour scheme and its triangular main part stands out, and is topped by a cross. It is adjacent next to the bell tower. It offers mass in the local language Papiamento.

Two previous churches in honour of St. Bernard were built on this site: one in the eighteenth century and the other in 1829. The current church was built in 1948.