Hemelum (West Frisian: Himmelum is a small village in Sudwest Fryslan, in the province Friesland of the Netherlands. A 2002 census reported approximately 589 citizens (2002).

The first information about Hemelum is from 1180. Hemelum had a stins, some states and a convent. The nunnery of Benedictine Order was one of the first convents at Friesland. Outside nuns lived at the convent also Beguines. The convent was dependent on the Abbot of Stavorum. In the Middle Ages lived in Hemelum The noble families Epema and Galama.

The Dutch Reformed Church of Hemelum is In 1668 built on the foundations of the old convent church. This convent tradition has at the end of the 20th century received a continuationwhen in the village a conventof the Russian Orthodox church was established.

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