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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.

Reformed church. Single-nave nave with narrower, rectangular closed choir (16th century). Oak tie beams with corbels and key pieces with pear bead profiles. Inventory: simple pulpit (19th century?), four gentlemen's pews (18th century). Organ made in 1884 by Gebr. van Oeckelen.

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

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.

Reformed Church. Originally an octagonal building with a mansard roof and a domed roof turret, built in 1815-1816 to a design by A. Tollus. Founded by a donation from King William I. Enlarged in 1850 to a rectangular space, retaining three sides of the original design. The interior was thoroughly modernised in 1958. Organ with two manuals and pedal by Bakker and Timmenga (Leeuwarden) from 1899. Mechanical tower clock of French make, first quarter of the 20th century.

Village church

The church has a straight closed single-aisled nave and a tower with five sections with a staircase tower and a constricted spire. The tower, with a vaulted lower space, was built at the end of the 14th century. The 14th-century nave with choir and the 15th-century northern aisle burned down in 1848. During the reconstruction in 1849-'55, parts of the old masonry were used, including a 15th-century basket-arch gate with a rectangular surrounding drip moulding. The tower was restored in 1956, the church in 1963. The inventory includes late 18th-century psalm boards and a 19th-century pulpit.

Dutch Reformed Church (before Reformation: St. Willibrord or Our Lady Church). Originally a 14th century church with a tower (15th c). The Gothic northern aisle was replaced in 1845 by a new aisle. The nave and choir are covered by cross-ribbed vaults, which in the nave and part of the choir start from wall pillars, connected by mural arches. Inventory: pulpit (17th) and clock by Arent vd Put in Deventer, 1600. On the northeast corner stone 1845. Organ with main work and lower positive, made in 1840 by JH Holtgräve, restored in 1983 by the Gebr. Reil.

Village church.

Dutch Reformed Church. Late Gothic village church, tower mid 15th century, choir and transept 15th century B, nave ca. 1521, as evidenced by the stone in the western facade. Choir with five-sided closure, wide, single-aisled nave, barrel vaults on tie beams. in the north and south facades of the nave Gothic gates in profiled natural stone frames. Inventory: pulpit with baptismal fence and lord's pew 17th century. Tombstones 16th and 17th century. Bell tower with bell by S. Butendiic, 1481, diam. 95.8 cm and a bell by Petit and Gebr. Edelbrock /Eijsbouts, 1930, diam. 74.4 cm. Mechanical tower clock by B. Eijsbouts from 1902, equipped with electric winding.