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Dutch Reformed Church. Spacious, single-nave cruciform church in Gothic style, built in 1657. Five-sided closed choir, which is narrower than the nave. Wooden barrel vaults with tie beams and corbels. Church restored 1957-1967. The inventory includes: pulpit, 17th century with copper lectern; two benches with arch panels, 17th century; four psalm boards, end of 18th century; four copper chandeliers, 18th century, one of which bears the date 1753. Organ with parapet with richly carved case in Louis XIV shapes. The organ with main work and positif, was made in 1773 by JJ Delahaye for the Walloon Church in Gouda and moved to Moordrecht in 1818. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Historic village church with tower. The Reformed parish Dorpskerk is part of the Protestant community of Capelle aan den IJssel (PgC) within the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN).

Built as Dutch Reformed Church Now the PKN church in Hoek van Holland. Nice interbellum church with a tower crowned by a copper-green spire. Because the wooden predecessor of this church had fallen into disrepair due to storm and wind, it was decided to build a new one. This church was put into use on 8 December 1926.

Protestant church and bell tower of the Protestant Regional Community of Frieslands End.

The church, built in 1658, is made of yellow IJssel brick and dated 1658 in the red brick facade. The two-pointed stars above it, also in red brick, refer to the coat of arms of Gouderak. On the west side, the masonry projects at the location of the tower. The roof turret has a wooden superstructure covered with slates and is crowned by a spire. The church was renovated in 1851. In front of the entrance is a portal from 1954 in an adapted style. The church has pointed arch windows on a dripstone. Between the windows are once cut buttresses with sloping covering. The interior of the church has a wooden barrel vault with wooden tie beams on corbel frames from 1851. They have profiled key pieces of a 17th-century type.

The Dorpskek in Akersloot was originally erected in the 13th century on the foundations of a Romanesque church. The current building is the reconstruction of 1837 as the previous building had to be demolished due to its deterioration.

In 1991 the church was refurbished. The heating was replaced. The wooden floor was replaced by a stone one and the wooden benches by chairs. In addition, a kitchen was fitted out and the church was made suitable for multifunctional use. Financially, the job was made possible thanks to the willingness to sacrifice of the Nieuwlanders, including people who were not members of our congregation. 36 guilders were raised per inhabitant. In addition, many volunteers helped out, which kept the costs down. The clock faces and hands of the tower were overhauled in the period October/November 1991. In 1994 the civil authorities restored the church tower.

Historic village church with tower. The nave dates from the 16th century. The church was renovated by Ir. Jos.Th.J. Cuypers in 1901-1904. The interior was restored again in 1972-1975.

Freestanding brick church on a street corner, dating in its main form from 1644, with an entrance gate under a hipped roof and on the gateposts sandstone miniature castles, an entrance portal and a square bell tower on the ridge of the church. The consistory against the east facade dates according to the year in the first laid stone from 1928. To the southeast of the church lies a small cemetery.

Dutch Reformed Church. Late Gothic village church with single-aisled nave and deep, three-sided closed choir. Heavy brick tower on the west side, decorated by series of narrow, blind niches and crowned by an eight-sided, constricted spire.