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The church in Ens has a sober design. This building style is an important characteristic of the so-called 'Delft School'. The use of the materials concrete, brick and wood also betrays characteristics of the 'Bossche School'. This movement originates from the Delft School and dates from the period of reconstruction between 1946 and 1973. This style, which is strongly based on numerical proportions, has its repercussions on Catholic church building in this period.

The Reformed Church was founded around 1920 by a number of members and its minister from the Christian Reformed Church. In March 1921, a building was rented for the congregation's meetings. On 20 July 1921, the congregation was instituted. The congregation expired and ceased to exist around 1925. In 1934, a new Reformed Church was founded. Two members, again from the Christian Reformed Church, jointly purchased the 'Evangelization room' on Dwars Nieuwstraat. The building had 280 seats. This congregation was instituted on 24 October 1934. In 1962, the congregation decided to build a new building. The last church service was held in the church building on Sunday 17 November. The new church building was officially put into use on 21 November 1968.

Important interbellum church with tower and domed crossing, on which a small roof turret..

The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in the Woensel district at Onze Lieve Vrouwestraat 2-4 was built in the years 1930-1931 to a design by J. Bekkers.

Reconstruction church without tower, with roof turret on the choir side.

Roman Catholic parish church from 1929 in the former village of Lindenheuvel, later annexed by Geleen. Architecturally extremely important interbellum church, the first (and now only) church building in the Geleen district of Lindenheuvel, after the demolition of the two other, later, churches in this district (St. Barbara and HH Engelbewaarders). Crucifix church with west tower and very wide central nave, designed according to the concept of the people's church.

Important interbellum church with tower and roof turret, both with copper-green spires.

Small church from 1948 in traditionalist style, designed by architect Nic. Molenaar jr.; contractor was S. Geers from Voorburg. Before that time, church services were held in a temporary church, which stood in front of the current church on the Stationsweg, corner of Tiendweg. It was an old management shed of machine factory Smulders from Utrecht. This building was erected in the winter of 1918-1919 and consecrated on 19-03-1919 by pastor P. van der Cammen of the Antonius van Padua parish of Dordrecht, of which the Sliedrecht church became a branch church. Since the independence of the OLV Onbachtigte Ontvangenis parish of Papendrecht in 1960, Sliedrecht has been part of Papendrecht. In 1977 Sliedrecht became more or less and in 2003 definitively an independent parish. In 1998, the SAP was founded, a partnership between the parishes of Sliedrecht, Alblasserdam and Papendrecht, which was transformed into the Alblasserwaard-West federation in 2001. The planned expansion of the side room (sacristy) at the rear started in January 2006 and was completed in the summer of 2006.

The church is considered an important work in the later oeuvre of Joseph Cuypers (1861 - 1949) (in collaboration with his son Pierre Cuypers Jr (1891 - 1982)) and is one of the three domed churches they built in the 1920s. The other two are the St. Laurentius in Dongen and the St. Agatha in Beverwijk. These three churches are closely related both stylistically (influence of (brick) expressionism) and spatially (central construction with dome).

Auxiliary church of the Buchten and Born parish. There is some misunderstanding among various church collectors about the Geloftekapel. It is often heard that the chapel was built in 1947 as a Dutch Reformed chapel and later became a Roman Catholic chapel. However, nothing could be further from the truth. It is a misconception that the chapel was a Dutch Reformed chapel. The Roman Catholic chapel / auxiliary church of Our Lady of the Rosary at Illikhoven 67 was built in 1947 to a design by the architectural firm Swinkels and Salemans. Due to secularization, the church was withdrawn from worship in 2012 and was purchased by a private individual who set up an external living room there.