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The Reformation also drove out the priests in Sebaldeburen. It is not known how the service was performed at that time. In the year 1602 Nicolaus Petri took charge of the service here. At that time there was a combination with Grijpskerk. This probably lasted until 1606. Then there is mention of a joint minister for Grootegast and Sebaldeburen: Thomas Joannis. The stamp above the entrance was left by Rev. Nicolaus Westendorp on the reformed congregation when the new church was put into use in 1807. Because it was this Rev. Westendorp who, when he became minister of Sebaldeburen in 1797, was very annoyed by the dilapidated church he found there. He says it like this: "When I came to the Community (in 1797) I had considered the pitiful condition of the Church with the saddest emotions. This feeling became tormenting, as often as I imagined the approaching moment when the care for our lives would force us to avoid it. There was no repairing it: it was not possible to establish a new one from the church goods and income, because they were not even sufficient to maintain the Parsonage and Sacristan. There was also no expectation of the Community; because it was small, burdened by other institutions and consisted mainly of peat and laborers."

Historic village church with tower. The Reformed Church in IJzendoorn is one of the oldest buildings in the village. Construction began shortly after 1384 and the church has been renovated and restored several times over the centuries. The church has a single nave and a Gothic appearance. The nave and choir are covered with wooden barrel vaults. The tower is a late Gothic building, the sections of which are decorated with pointed arch niches. The church has a number of special elements, including a pulpit from the second quarter of the 17th century and a pew with a canopy and a carved alliance coat of arms from the 18th century.

The Reformed Church was completed in 1939 and consecrated the same year by Bishop Vince Medgyasszay. The interior paintings of the church were made by Ilona Biczó and her husband. They contain biblical motifs, mixed with elements of Hungarian folk painting. The church survived the bombings of World War II unscathed, but underwent a major renovation in 1988. Its two-manual electric organ was built by Albert Péter.

Reformed Church, built in 1773-1775 in the shape of a Greek cross, designed by the Amsterdam city architect JE de Wit. Beautiful lead-covered tower. Internal wooden barrel vaults. Furniture (pulpit, pew) from the 17th and 18th centuries. Organ with main work, upper work and pedal, made in 1865 by Flaes and Brünjes (Amsterdam). Bell frame with clock by Cornelius van Ammeroy, 1603, diam. 118.1 cm. Mechanical tower clock, circa 1880.

From the end of 1932 until its establishment as an independent municipality in 1946, Ochten was a department of Opheusden. In 1956, the municipality, previously also called the 'Keukenskerk', together with the mother municipality of Opheusden, left the association of Reformed congregations to join the 'withdrawn' Reformed Church in the Netherlands .

Brick Gothic village church with three-sided closed choir without buttresses (possibly 14th century), wide, single-nave nave with lower transept arms (16th century). The church is covered by wooden barrel vaults and was restored in 1912; the tower was restored in 1953. Inventory: pulpit (18th century); choir screen and baptismal screen (17th century); four copper chandeliers (18th century); two tombstones (17th century).

The church is a single-nave brick building (plastered) with a high choir. (XV). In 1832 the church was significantly restored with the help of the States of Utrecht and completely restored again in 1950. Internal pulpit 18th century, a copper lectern, a copper chandelier 17th century. The organ front is from 1915. On the west wall (wooden partition between church and consistory) are two inscriptions, namely the Ten Commandments and the Twelve Articles of Faith, painted in 1771 by P. Landzaat. On a balcony under the organ two texts between which a dial of the 19th century clock. In the consistory a memorial board circa 1621. Bell tower with clock by G. Schimmel, 1682, diam. 56.5 cm. Mechanical tower clock, B. Eijsbouts, circa 1927, electric winding.

The Reformed Church in Rozenburg was instituted on 15 March 1855 and on 13 May 1888. In December 1944, a small part of the congregation declared itself Free. This is how the Reformed Church (Liberated) in Rozenburg was founded. The church building at Emmastraat 75 was built in the 1950s on a plot of land between the back gardens of two parallel streets. Partly due to its recessed location, the building is hidden between the surrounding buildings. The architect of the building was A. Warnaar in Maasland. In 1973, the church building was expanded on both sides. In 1983, the church building was expanded again for more spacious meeting facilities. The attention of the interior, which appears square due to the widening, is drawn to the organ front that has been expanded opposite the large church window.

NH Church on raised churchyard. Simple hall building from 1667 according to foundation stone in the south wall. Internal 17th century pulpit tub with sounding board and simple stairs; copper baptismal font. Two gentlemen's pews, circa 1700 and early 18th century, the second of which is covered. Other pews with knobs on the side pieces, organ balustrade with lectern. Number of 18th century gravestones. Large painted board with 64 Gruys-Tamminga quarter coats of arms from 1690. Cabinet organ, circa 1800 made by HH Freytag, converted into a church organ by GP Dik in 1860. Bell frame with bell by Van Bergen, 1918?, diam. 60 cm. retaining the inscription and decorations of the clock by C. Spronneaux and H. Veri, 1686. Mechanical tower clock probably 1687, decommissioned.

The church is a Gothic building of brick on a tuff base. The single-nave nave dates from the end of the fifteenth century or the beginning of the sixteenth century with a heavy, brick west tower. The wooden barrel vault was restored in 1657, according to the inscription on one of the tie beams. In 1838 the choir was demolished and the consistory was built in its place. During a restoration in 1952-1953 the floor was renewed and the window tracery in the windows changed. On this occasion the pulpit was moved. The ceiling was replaced in 1995.