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Small hall church without tower. Renovation 1865. Renovated or expanded at least once after that.

Hall church without tower. Extension 1984. Demolished except for a few walls in 2019. The church building of the old reformed community in the Netherlands in Langbroek is being renovated. The building, in the province of Utrecht, is a municipal monument. After several years of wrangling over the zoning plan, the building has now been demolished. Only a few monumental walls remained. The community is growing and needs more seats. These will become available thanks to the new construction, even more than that. There are also sixty seats available in a new hall. The old church still contained asbestos. The new building will soon be heated without gas. The churchgoers will start using the building again in October.

Simple hall church with saddle roof.

Hall church without tower. Former name of the street was Molenpad.

Temporary building until 1951, when the current church building was put into use at the same address .

The origins of the congregation lie in 1838, when a Christian separated congregation was instituted. Via the Reformed Churches under the Cross (1846) and the Christian Reformed Church (1869), it became a free congregation in 1883 with the name Independent Christian Congregation. In 1922, it joined the Federation of Old Reformed Congregations. Eleven years later, in 1933, the congregation joined the Reformed Congregations. A minority remained with Rev. J. van Wier as a free congregation. In 1946, it joined the federation again, which merged with the Old Reformed Congregations in the Netherlands in 1948.

On site of old church. With new extension. The old church was demolished after this new construction.

Built to replace a building destroyed by storm damage. Decommissioned in 1930. Replaced by new church building.

The Oude Helenakerk (Old Helen's Church) is a church building from the 15th century (although the tower dates from the 12th century). It has a beautiful vault and wall paintings from the 14th century. The pulpit dates from 1784.

Tower Dutch Reformed Church. Remarkable building, dated 1821, of which the brick body of three sections, separated by natural stone frames and neo-classical entrance has embossed brick and with Ionic half-columns, which carry a pediment. The superstructure, consisting of a square and an octagonal open wooden section, still shows a baroque influence, as does the way in which the tower body is connected to the side walls of the church by means of curved gables, crowned by parapets. Mechanical tower clock, EJ Rochlitz. Above the entrance door is a strongly west-deviating wooden sundial, before 1821.