Nomain

Nomain
region	Hauts-de-France
Department	North
Arrondissement	Douai
Canton	Orchies
Community association	Pévèle-Carembault
Coordinates	50 ° 30 ′ N , 3 ° 15 ′ E Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ N , 3 ° 15 ′ E
height	28-58 m
surface	19.11 km 2
Residents	2,521 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	132 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	59310
INSEE code	59435
Website	http://www.mairie-nomain.fr/

Nomain is a French commune with 2,521 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Nord in the region of Hauts-de-France . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Douai and the Canton of Orchies .

geography

Neighboring municipalities to Nomain are Genech in the north, Mouchin in the northeast, Aix-en-Pévèle in the east, Landas in the southeast, Orchies in the south, Auchy-lez-Orchies in the south-west, Cappelle-en-Pévèle in the west and Templeuve in the north-west.

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2007
Residents	1,751	1,700	1,760	1,967	2,317	2,388	2,447

religion

In 1819 the Swiss evangelist Henri Pyt (1796–1835) gathered a group of around 200 evangelicals in town. He baptized the men Jean-Baptiste Ladam (1789-1846), Alexis Montel, Ferdinand Caulier and Jean-Michel Wauquier at a tributary of the Scarpe . A year later, the first Baptist church in France was built in the village . The leader in building this church was the farmer Louis Calier, who was also elected pastor. The church with a baptismal font offered space for 80 to 100 people in the early years. Ladam became the first Protestant colporteur in France after the Reformation . He was first incarcerated in 1823 for his evangelistic activities. Through Ladam and other Baptists, some people accepted the Baptist faith, so that a little later more Baptist churches were built in the area. The Baptist nomains cultivated friendly relations and supported these projects.

literature

Le Patrimoine des Communes du Nord. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-119-8 , pp. 1283-1284.

Web links

Commons : Nomain - collection of images, videos and audio files

Website of the Mairie Nomain

Individual evidence

^ Sébastian Fath: You ghetto au réseau. Le protestantisme évangélique en France 1800–2005. (= Histoire et société. N ° 47). Labor et Fides, 2005, ISBN 2-8309-1139-3 , p. 116 and p. 332. - See also the note on the Mairie homepage , read on March 19, 2019.

[1] Sébastian Fath: You ghetto au réseau. Le protestantisme évangélique en France 1800–2005. (= Histoire et société. N ° 47). Labor et Fides, 2005, ISBN 2-8309-1139-3 , p. 116 and p. 332. - See also the note on the Mairie homepage , read on March 19, 2019.