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Mennonite Church. Simple hall building according to the facade stone from 1838. Two weather vanes, a ship and a horse.

In 1895 Bakker & Timmenga built a new organ for the Mennonite Church in Veenwouden. The same firm restored the work in 1981. In June 1981 the organ could be put back into use.

Simple hall church without tower. Inaugurated on 19 February 1928.

In 1996, the beautiful church from 1853 was demolished because it had become too expensive to maintain. The adjacent buildings, which were also owned by the Mennonite Community, were then restored and converted into a new church.

Neo-church without tower. New front facade in 1950.

Mennonite church with extensions. The church has a neck gable dated 1857; heavily framed entrance. On either side service buildings under a saddle roof with a shield in front and behind and chimneys above. Six-pane windows. Cast iron fence along the church grounds. Pavement posts of the service buildings. Single manual organ, made in 1881 by Bakker and Timmenga.

This important, beautiful church building without a tower is almost entirely built into an (irregular) residential block. Of the exterior (unless the church is open) only something can be seen at the back. In 1588, during the years of the restoration of the Spanish rule in Deventer, the Catholic merchant and mayor Macharius Penninck bought the hereditary property of the noble family Swaefken between Brink and Spijkerboorsteeg. The showpiece facade was probably built in 1597. A new "city palace" was built on the site of the old buildings.

Mennonite Church. Hall church under hipped roof from 1841. Front facade finished by cornice with classical frieze. Entrance framed by pediment. Organ by the firm L. van Dam & Zonen from 1916.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, Mennonite believers were tolerated by the local government. The government allowed Mennonite communities to build their own church, but these were not allowed to be on the public road. In practice, this usually meant that a house was built for the church. In Joure there is no longer a house in front of the church hall, but the small square in front of the church is a reminder of the situation in the 17th century. The church building on Midstraat dates from 1824.”

Frontage of the Mennonite Church. Above the gate passage, next to which two six-pane windows, floor with three such windows. Facade closed off by block moulding. Hidden church in a three-sided closed hall building covered by a barrel vault from 1829. Simple pulpit. Originally a single-manual organ made in 1872 by the Gebr. Adema from Leeuwarden. Modified in 1920 by Bakker and Timmenga.