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The Dormition of the Virgin Mary is the largest preserved neo-Nazi church in the country. Built in 1836 - 1837, the church is famous for its iconostasis made of boiled walnut wood and carved with very artistic woodwork by the masters of Debar for ten years. The bell tower on the west façade was built in 1906 and completed in 1932-34.

The Dorotea Church is a 1934 reconstruction of an old church from the early 19th century. The new church was built in wood according to the plans of Evert Milles.

Reformed Church. Originally an octagonal building with a mansard roof and a domed roof turret, built in 1815-1816 to a design by A. Tollus. Founded by a donation from King William I. Enlarged in 1850 to a rectangular space, retaining three sides of the original design. The interior was thoroughly modernised in 1958. Organ with two manuals and pedal by Bakker and Timmenga (Leeuwarden) from 1899. Mechanical tower clock of French make, first quarter of the 20th century.

The church has a straight closed single-aisled nave and a tower with five sections with a staircase tower and a constricted spire. The tower, with a vaulted lower space, was built at the end of the 14th century. The 14th-century nave with choir and the 15th-century northern aisle burned down in 1848. During the reconstruction in 1849-'55, parts of the old masonry were used, including a 15th-century basket-arch gate with a rectangular surrounding drip moulding. The tower was restored in 1956, the church in 1963. The inventory includes late 18th-century psalm boards and a 19th-century pulpit.

Dutch Reformed Church (before Reformation: St. Willibrord or Our Lady Church). Originally a 14th century church with a tower (15th c). The Gothic northern aisle was replaced in 1845 by a new aisle. The nave and choir are covered by cross-ribbed vaults, which in the nave and part of the choir start from wall pillars, connected by mural arches. Inventory: pulpit (17th) and clock by Arent vd Put in Deventer, 1600. On the northeast corner stone 1845. Organ with main work and lower positive, made in 1840 by JH Holtgräve, restored in 1983 by the Gebr. Reil.

Village church

Village church.

Dutch Reformed Church. Late Gothic village church, tower mid 15th century, choir and transept 15th century B, nave ca. 1521, as evidenced by the stone in the western facade. Choir with five-sided closure, wide, single-aisled nave, barrel vaults on tie beams. in the north and south facades of the nave Gothic gates in profiled natural stone frames. Inventory: pulpit with baptismal fence and lord's pew 17th century. Tombstones 16th and 17th century. Bell tower with bell by S. Butendiic, 1481, diam. 95.8 cm and a bell by Petit and Gebr. Edelbrock /Eijsbouts, 1930, diam. 74.4 cm. Mechanical tower clock by B. Eijsbouts from 1902, equipped with electric winding.

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

As early as the 12th century, a stone church must have stood on the site of the village church. Before that, there was probably a thatched wooden church. The church was dedicated to Saint Anthony. On 6 June 1855, the church burned down. A large fire destroyed part of the church and also a large number of the village houses, only a part of the church tower was preserved. In 1857, new construction began. In 1949, three new bells were cast, replacing the two previous bells. They weighed 650, 371 and 260 kilos respectively and sounded in G sharp, B and C sharp. The middle bell was replaced in 1961 after a crack. The inscriptions read according to bells: