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On the site of the old abbey church. Built as a Dutch Reformed church. Small church with a tower.

The Reformed Church consists of a simple 16th century nave, rebuilt in 1611. The choir has been demolished. Interior: niches under the windows. Oak pulpit (17th century). The steeply sloping 14th century tower has three sections. On either side of the pointed arch above the entrance are niches with brick trefoils, which also appear on a frieze of the round staircase tower, the masonry of which is enlivened with glazed heads. The buttresses were probably added in the 16th century, the bell storey was raised and the entrance was changed. The stone vault in the tower has been broken out; its wall columns are provided with small capitals. Bell tower with clock by Johannes Burgerhuys, 1613, diam. 70 cm. Lower in the tower, in a clock case, is a mechanical tower clock, according to the nameplate: B. Eijsbouts, 1922, decommissioned.

The Herv. CHURCH consists of the 15th century three-aisled, pseudo-basilica-shaped nave of the old village church, whose choir has been demolished. The building has pillars, cross-ribbed vaults and sculpture on capitals and corbels. The church has a simple pulpit, 17th century; a baptismal fence, 18th century and two covered benches, first half of the 19th century. Two tombstones, 17th century.

This historic church is owned by the Protestant Community of Damsterboord, on the second and fourth Sunday of the month there is a service at 10:00 am. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

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

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.

Dutch Reformed Church. Simple hall church from around 1800. Enlarged in 1860 with north arm and tower. In the windows four stained glass windows by Ype Staak, 1788. Single manual organ, made in 1881 by L. van Dam and Sons. Bell tower with clock by J. Noteman, 1638, diam. 66.5 cm. Mechanical tower clock by JV de Vries, Drogeham, 1913.

The tower dates from 1900. In the church there is a pulpit from 1760, originating from the old church. On 1 January 2015 a large fire raged in this church. After this fire, in consultation with the RCE, among others, the church was "rebuilt". This reconstruction actually involved an almost completely new construction .

Important historical church with many extensions, especially the extremely interesting neo-style tower.Built as Dutch Reformed Church. Replaced an older church. Renovated in 1923. Since 2001, Samen Op Weg church. The church was restored in 2001. Action was taken to restore the tower dating from 1865.

The single-nave neo-Gothic church built in 1887 with a three-sided choir closure under a saddle roof is built against the late 15th-century tower; the church and tower are strikingly situated near the Waaldijk. Built in brick and on a plinth, a four-bay long nave with buttresses cut between the windows and the sides of the choir with natural stone covering on the cutting and at the top; decorative brickwork molding under the gutter; wide lancet-shaped windows with tracery and in a frame of bright red brick and accents in natural stone; stained glass in a pointed diamond motif in green and white, along the edges of the windows strips in red and blue glass; on the roof covered with braised tiles three dormers covered with slates and provided with a piron; on the north side of the nave an extended entrance with double wooden door with fittings, set in a bright red brick frame; there also, the consistory room built against the tower under a hipped saddle roof with dormer; in the consistory room large windows with cross-bar division and slightly recessed round-arched fields above; the frame of the fields and the window styles in bright red stone; on the south side of the tower a mortuary house. In the interior a wooden barrel vault with tie rods and on cove, the ribs resting on consoles with decorative carvings; hexagonal pulpit and rear bulkhead with Gothic decorations from 1864, organ balcony on three simple wooden columns; wainscoting, gentlemen's pews and general pew plan made of wood; two late 19th-century psalm and hymn boards; two twelve-arm copper crowns from the construction period with tronies on the inside. At the entrance to the church two memorial stones from 1849 and 1887. Intact single-manual organ, made in 1857 by H. Knipscheer from Amsterdam. The neo-Gothic village church, built in 1887, is of cultural and architectural-historical value due to its location and the intactness of its interior and exterior, so that protection as a national monument is justified.