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Extremely important Stuytkerk with dome and tower. Baroque altars. This church looks a lot like the (former) St. Egbertuskerk in Almelo (also tower and dome).

In 1686 probably built on older foundations five-sided closed church building. In the church pulpit with twisted columns along the tub; coat rack board, stairs and sounding board, all from 1666. A covered and a non-canopied lord's pew with carved friezes and attachments, both around 1666. All pews with knobs, on the pulpit side remains of baptismal fence with spindle frieze. Many gravestones 17th-19th century. Freestanding 13th century tower with brick spire rising above gables with climbing arch friezes. Mechanical tower clock, "Concordia", WJ Koek, Midwolda. Mechanical wrought iron tower clock 1598, in 1702 by R. Symons provided with a pendulum mechanism. Restored in 1908. Decommissioned. Organ made in 1868 by R. Meijer.

Reformed Church. Romano-Gothic brick church with fairly intact details on windows and a closed entrance on the north side; west facade from 1843 with wooden bell dome as in Aalsum to replace a tower. In the church pulpit XVII, two benches with carved coats of arms in the backs. Marble epitaph for Sc. van Scheltema and two large tombstones, one by Mr. BG Eneen from 1747, three crowns and two light arms. Single manual organ, made in 1740 by J.M. Schwartsburg. In 1827 the wind chest was replaced and the lower case widened by LJ and J. van Dam. Bell tower with bell by J. Balthasar, 1659, diam. 85.5 cm. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Neoclassical church with tower, the crowning of which dates from 1951.

Protestant church

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.

Dutch Reformed Church from the end of the 15th century. Single-nave nave and narrower choir without buttresses, probably from the same period as the tower. Nave largely renewed later. Single-manual organ, made in 1871 by H. Knipscheer for the Reformed Church in Veessen. After a temporary stay in the Reformed Church in Andijk, the organ was restored in 1974 by Verschueren Orgelbouw and placed in Kortenhoef. Bell frame with bell by Johannes Dop, 1641, diam. 120.5 cm. Mechanical tower clock by Eijsbouts, 1923.

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

Shortly after the embankment of 1364, Mastenbroek became an independent parish. At the same time, probably between 1364 and 1369, the church was built. The church was dedicated to Onze Lieve Vrouwe ter Zon. The church building was repeatedly restored and renovated, for example after a fire in 1647, of which renovation one of the inscriptions at the entrance still reminds us. The choir (1531) of the late Gothic single-nave building is somewhat narrower than the nave (1647). The tower was replaced by a new one in 1845.

Simple neoclassical hall church with facade tower. Internally gently curved wooden barrel vault.