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Simple hall church without a tower.

Built as Reformed Church (Liberated) (GKV). In 1968 "GKV Buiten Verband". In 1979 the name of that church became Dutch Reformed Church (NGK).

Built as a Christian Reformed Church in 1916. In use as such until 1962.

Historic church with tower. Restoration 2008. The reformed community of the small village of Dorkwerd is part of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN).

Built in 1861 to replace the old village church. Three copper chandeliers, Louis XVI. Tombstone, 17th century. Single manual organ of Westphalian origin. Made around 1700. Placed in the Herv. Church in Loenen in 1870. On that occasion, the lower case was removed and the keyboard moved to the side. During the restoration in 1978, the case was reconstructed in its original form (with lower case and backside playing). The maker of the organ is unknown.

Extension at the rear and modification of the roof turret.

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).

NH Church. Simple plastered hall church; large roof turret on the saddle roof. Round arch windows. Bell tower with bell by Nicolaus, 1315?, diam. 85.5 cm. Mechanical tower clock B. Eijsbouts, Asten with electrically driven clock and striking mechanism.

The reformed church was built in 1893-1894 and designed by the architect Sztehlo Otto in the neo-gothic style. It is the first Reformed church in the town.

The Hervormde Kerk (Reformed Church) in Aarlanderveen was built in 1905. It replaced an earlier church, which was demolished. Several artefacts were transferred from the older church to the new one including a pulpit with baptismal fence from the second half of the 17th century; a stone late Gothic baptismal font, used as a base for the pulpit; fronts of pews from the 18th century and two copper lecterns from the 17th century.