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Church with roof turret, in neo-Gothic style. It was extended in 1881. It has a mechanical tower clock made by Van Bergen in 1881.

Small expressionist church with tower. Built to replace the previous Reformed Church that burned down in 1923. Together with the historic church in Stompetoren, this church building is used for services by the Protestant Community of Schermer.

The church is a hall building with three-sided closure, four bays deep, under a saddle roof. The consistory room has a hipped roof. Both roofs are covered with natural stone slates in a mesh covering. On the square a symmetrical pilaster facade with a projecting portal with a pediment and pinnacle. The stepped gable has a climbing arch frieze, clock face with clockwork, horizontal bands and a plastered plinth. Furthermore, the facade is crowned by a square bell tower with a tower roof and weather vane. The tower carries a carillon of eighteen bells. The rising masonry consists of red machine-made bricks laid in cross bond. The nave has lisene-like pilasters. In the arch drum above the large window of the front facade decorative brickwork. Cement spring and keystones in pointed arch and arch frieze. The wall openings of the church are provided with cast iron Gothic pointed arch windows with diamond-shaped bars. In the transom of the portal and in the round window of the rear facade a geometric rod division. The interior has a stuccoed cross-ribbed vault with iron tie rods. In the outer wall cast iron wall anchors. In the church an octagonal oak pulpit from 1740 with copper lectern, baptismal font and wooden sounding board with golden halo, made by the carpenter Godefridus Scheepers from Heeze.

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

Protestant (Reformed) Church. Simple hall church from 1810 with pointed arch windows and roof turret (tower). In 2009/2010, together with the adjacent Aleida Leurinkhuis, extensively renovated (and refurnished) into a modern Church Center. Single-manual organ, built in 1725 by Diedrich Martens from Vreden. Last restoration in 1991 (by Blank). Mechanical wrought-iron tower clock. A natural stone round dial.

Built in 1950. Facades and materials: post-war church made of hand-moulded bricks, situated on an artificial hill, with a small cemetery with graves, including JH Boll (1924).

This historic church building serves the Protestant community of Makkinga.

Dutch Reformed Church. Consisting of the choir of the late 15th century Lambertus Church, destroyed in 1587. Closed on three sides, provided with buttresses, pointed arch windows, slate saddle roof with roof turret, in which bell from 1668 by P. Hemony. The church restored in 1963. Double copper eight-light crown, cast by Borghart in Den Bosch in 1794; tombstone from 1561 for "frater Thomas de Berhey". Bell frame with bell by Pieter Hemony, 1668, diam. 56.5 cm.

Dutch Reformed Church from 1873. The inventory includes: a copper lectern on the pulpit and a precentor's lectern; a copper baptismal font holder and two copper candle holders, all dating from the 18th century.

NH Church, built in 1809 in a mixed classical-neo-Gothic style after a design by L. van Heijst; brick hall church with 3/8 closure and an open octagonal tower on the roof. Front facade with pilasters and pediments. Pointed arch windows. Interior: stucco. Oak pulpit from around 1775, brass lectern and baptismal font holder from the same period. An 18th century cabinet organ, which had been here since 1809, has long since disappeared. The current organ was delivered in 1952 by the Vreeken company (Bodegraven).