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The oldest, Romanesque, part is the base of the tower and the two westernmost bays. This part was built around 1200. A few decades later, the building was extended in Romanesque Gothic style, with a recessed semicircular apse being built on the east side. The beautiful brickwork was hidden for years by a layer of plaster. Halfway through the 20th century, the church was restored, with the brickwork being made visible again. (Source: [1] )

The Reformed Church of Sleeuwijk has existed since 1618. For centuries, church services were held in the 'Old Church' at Kerkeinde, a few kilometres outside the village.

Neo-church with roof turret. The predecessor of the church dated from the 15th century and was demolished in 1895. After that, a temporary wooden church was in use from 1895 to 1900, which was replaced in 1900 by the current Reformed Church.

Reformed church. Single-nave late Gothic church with three-sided choir closure and simple tower, the upper part of which has three high unprofiled round-arched niches in three facade surfaces, probably 16th century. The church is covered with a wooden barrel vault on tie beams. South Wall renewed in the 19th century. The inventory includes: a simple 17th century pulpit, with 18th century lectern and four simple 19th century pews. Oak bell frame with bell by G. Butendiic, 1436, diam. 85.2 cm.

Single-nave village church with early 14th century nave without buttresses, simple, brick tower from probably the same period with a corbelling on arch frieze and slender spire at the height of the church and a deep, buttressed with three-sided closure. The nave, raised in 1865, has a 19th century cove ceiling. The church is completely plastered on the outside. In the choir good 17th century furniture: panelling and benches with lobe ornament within the arches surrounded by acanthus leafwork, well-carved pulpit and simple, sliding gentlemen's benches against the straight sides of the choir. The church also has two copper chandeliers in 17th century style. Mechanical tower clock, has been decommissioned. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

The church dates from the second half of the 15th century and was originally connected to the tower. At that time, the building had the tower, a low nave and a high choir. Around 1592, part of the nave was destroyed (siege of Coevorden). The remaining part of the nave was brought to the same height as the choir in 1628 and the west facade was then bricked up. Since then, the church and tower have been separated. Of the Gothic church, only the ruined eastern part and the freestanding tower (ca. 1450 - 1500) remain. The nave is said to have collapsed during the Eighty Years' War - or was the church never finished due to lack of money? When the church was plastered in 1862, the furniture, including two 17th century pews, remained reasonably intact. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Hall church with tower. Built as a Reformed church. Enlarged 1615, rebuilt 1769.

Reformed Church with roof turret on churchyard. In 1872 largely renovated church, which has retained the medieval north wall. Bell frame with bell of anonymous founder from the 14th century, diam. 72 cm. The bell has a crack in the lip and has been taken out of use. In the churchyard some 17th century gravestones.

Reformed church from 1947.

The Dutch Reformed Church of Boornbergum was built in 1734. The church was built on the foundations of a predecessor made of tuff stone, the bell tower with saddle roof of which had partially collapsed on 5 December 1733. The current church building is of the hall church type. Its interior includes several centuries-old gravestones, a 17th-century pulpit, a copper baptismal bowl made in 1614 and an organ built in 1925 by the Leeuwarden firm Bakker en Timmenga.