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Extremely important modern church from 1960, designed by HC van de Leur. Round church hall with large windows on the south side. The roof is supported by concrete trusses that are centered in a skylight above the place of the celebration altar. On the east and north side of the round church hall is a lower extension, with open contact to the church hall: Intended to allow the faithful to take a seat in the light part of the church (at the front) but also to be able to offer sufficient seating when it is very busy. Entrance on the east side, with a day chapel and baptismal font. The baptismal font has its own skylight. Rectory in the same style by the same architect. Freestanding tower on the southwest side of the church, with a bell.

Historic village church with tower. Tower 1455. Destroyed by war in 1944, rebuilt in 1951. (During this restoration the St. Anna chapel served as an emergency parish church).

Our Lady of the Nativity, consecrated 1860, Th. Molkenboer. Neo-Gothic pseudo-basilica with narrower choir and tower, consisting of two square and one octagonal section with spire. The interior, now white-plastered again, has slender sectioned pillars without capitals and stuccoed wooden cross-ribbed vaults. Late work by Molkenboer, based on the Lower Rhine late Gothic. Originally a two-manual organ, made in 1874 by L. Ypma. Mechanical tower clock by J. van de Kerkhof.

Originally an early neo-Gothic church, WJ van Vogelpoel, 1864-1866. Major renovation and extension in 1925-1926, HCM van Beers. The side aisles were renewed, the tower was sheathed, the interior was executed in fair brickwork and the plastered wooden vaults were replaced by stone vaults.

After the Reformation, Catholicism still had many followers in West Friesland. Catholicism also appeared to be very much alive in the new Zijpe polder, which was drained in 1597, although Protestantism was the official religion. The Catholics went to church in a clandestine church on the Ruigeweg, not far from the small village of Burgerbrug. In 1863, this church building burned down and it was decided to build a new, "real" church on the Grote Sloot.

Sober interbellum church with tower with (copper) green spire. Built as Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Nativity. With preservation of high older tower from 1856-1857, architect Th. Molkenboer. Extension of nave 1874-'75, architect EJ Margry. After partial collapse rebuilt in 1932 by JA and L. van der Laan. The older tower was sheathed and raised to its current situation.

This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Nave and slightly older narrower choir with three-sided closure, late Gothic, XV, restored in 1888, restored in 1952 after severe war damage. Later church perpendicular to the original building. Carved corbel and keystones in the choir. The inventory includes: statue of the Madonna, XIV; statue of Christ showing his wounds, XVd; Calvary group, XVd-XVIa, and some other statues. Mechanical tower clock, equipped with electric winding. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

The Roman Catholic Church "Maria Geboorte" in Dronrijp was built in 1839, designed by architect A. van der Moer in the Water Board style; the contractor was PJ de Wal from Leeuwarden.

Built in 1877-1879 to a design by architect G. te Riele Wzn. (1833-1911) in neo-Gothic style. The side aisles were added in style in 1925-1926. The church is of the cruciform basilica type with one west tower, a three-aisled nave, straight closed transepts, a short choir with three-sided closure and three-sided closed side chapels. The side aisles added in 1925 are one bay shorter on the west side than the central nave. The baptismal chapel is extended on the south side against the first bay of the central nave. The sacristy with hipped roof is located in the corner between the choir and the northern transept. The transepts do not extend beyond the nave. The ROOF of the central nave, the transept and the choir consists of two intersecting saddle roofs with the same ridge height. The roofs are placed between higher bricked gables with donkey backs and shoulders. The aforementioned saddle roofs, as well as the hipped roofs of the side aisles, chapels, sacristy and the constricted spire of the bell tower are covered with slates in Maasdekking. The spire is provided with four clocks at the point of constriction. The crowning consists of a wrought iron tower cross with weathercock. With the exception of the spire, the roofs drain via gutters laid on the bricked wall. A total of three dormers have been placed in the roof of the nave and the choir closure: wooden attic hatch, trefoil in gable top, hipped saddle roof with slates and piron.