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According to the facade stone, the church dates from 1861. The small windows in the front facade have wrought iron grilles from the 1950s. The church is separated from the street by a front garden with a wrought iron fence as a boundary.

This Vermaning is the oldest Mennonite church on Ameland. It is still the old Vermaning of the Waterland congregation in Nes. After the general reunification in 1854, the Jan Jacobskerk was demolished the following year. This church dated from 1650. The church of the Foppe Onesvolk had already suffered a similar fate in 1804-1805. In Nes, there were three Mennonite congregations until 1804!

The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown, but it can be assumed that it emerged in the 15th century. On 31st March 1943, 680 Jews were arrested and sent to Auschwitz via Salonika. Around 130 survived the Holocaust but by the 1990s only 2 families remained in Veroia.

Important modern church with tower. Part of the Titus Brandsma Parish.

Architecturally important church building with a small bell tower, containing ten small bells. Built as the Reformed Resurrection Church in the Rotterdam expansion district of Alexanderpolder to a design by the architects Willem and Ben Lengkeek.

The church was built on the orders of Louis XV who wanted to provide the so-called "Parc aux cerfs" district with a place of worship. A first temporary church was completed in 1727 and then in 1743, the first stone was laid. The construction was carried out under the direction of the architect Jacques Hardouin-Mansart, known as Mansart de Sagonne, grandson of the famous architect of Louis XIV. The building was completed in 1754. Ten years later, the architect J.F. Trouard built a chapel for catechism. It takes the name of the chapel "du Charnier" since it is there that the bodies of the deceased of the castle awaited their funeral. The organs of Clicquot were installed in 1760. 

Neo-Romanesque church situated on a hill with two towers on either side of the transept.

Vestby church is a long church designed by Johannes Henrik Nissen and Holm Munthe, and the builder was Gulbrand Johnsen. The poet Johan Herman Wessel (1848-1915) grew up in the vicarage next to the church.

Vestbygd Church is a wooden long church that was built in 1885 and last rebuilt in 1963. The architect of the church was Johannes Henrik Nissen.

Vestbygda chapel in Farsund is a wooden building completed in 1909. The architect of the church is D.J. Meberg.