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Simple hall church with saddle roof.

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

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.

Reformed church. Three-aisled nave, choir XV. West tower with high spire (1681) originally 15th century; built against the church chapel on the north and south sides. N. side sacristy. Above both entrances and door consistory room, sculpture. Internal 17th century furniture. Oak bell frame with chime consisting of two bells by M. and C. Fremy, 1681, diam. 98.8 cm and 74.2 cm respectively. In the tower ambulatory mechanical wrought iron tower clock by Libertus vd Burg, 1682. A slightly east-deviating metal sundial is attached to the tower.

Reformed church. Tall, late Gothic cruciform church, built in the course of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century after a Romanesque predecessor had burned down in 1420. The nave has a side aisle on the south side only; only the arches of the north were built. Deep, 5/8 closed choir with a sacristy on the south side. Against the east wall of the north transept a staircase tower. Internally over the choir and transept net vaults on colonettes. The nave and side aisle have cross-rib vaults, which however date from 1643. The church was restored after a fire in 1635; a complete restoration was started in 1964. The inventory includes: an oak pulpit and a baptismal fence from 1674, four copper crowns from 1791, several tombstones from the 17th and 18th centuries. Organ with two manuals, built in 1877 by L. van Dam & Zonen (Leeuwarden) for the Reformed Church of Nieuwe Niedorp . In 1967 modified by the firm B. Pels & Zoon (Alkmaar), provided with a free pedal and placed in Ede. The tower is a large building, clad with secondary processed tuff stone, with three sections, of which the upper two have two slender pointed arch niches with traceries in each facade surface. In the 17th century (VL) or in 1765 (date in corbel under the spire) the tower obtained a remarkable closure, consisting of an arched frieze, above which a series of pointed arch niches with fork traceries and, above the water list, a parapet with blind round arch niches. Mechanical tower clock, has been decommissioned.