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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.

The Dorpskek in Akersloot was originally erected in the 13th century on the foundations of a Romanesque church. The current building is the reconstruction of 1837 as the previous building had to be demolished due to its deterioration.

The church, built in 1658, is made of yellow IJssel brick and dated 1658 in the red brick facade. The two-pointed stars above it, also in red brick, refer to the coat of arms of Gouderak. On the west side, the masonry projects at the location of the tower. The roof turret has a wooden superstructure covered with slates and is crowned by a spire. The church was renovated in 1851. In front of the entrance is a portal from 1954 in an adapted style. The church has pointed arch windows on a dripstone. Between the windows are once cut buttresses with sloping covering. The interior of the church has a wooden barrel vault with wooden tie beams on corbel frames from 1851. They have profiled key pieces of a 17th-century type.

It is not known when a church first stood on this site, but it is known that there was a parish in Westerblokker around 1513. It is not possible to say with 100% certainty what style the church had, but on the basis of several drawings and engravings it can be stated that the church at least has stylistic features of a late Gothic church from the first quarter of the 16th century. This church, more precisely the nave, was demolished in 1830 due to dilapidation. The new nave was widened in 1864 at the height of the two easternmost bays and the choir enclosure. The current cast iron windows also date from that renovation. In 1883 the, also, cast iron entrance and ornamental gates were added. The pillars of the gate on the Westerblokker show the year 1883.

Extremely important historical village church with tower. Particularly important for the English organ, and the series of stained glass windows. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

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

Dutch Reformed Church. Late Gothic village church with single-aisled nave and deep, three-sided closed choir. Heavy brick tower on the west side, decorated by series of narrow, blind niches and crowned by an eight-sided, constricted spire.

Dutch Reformed Church. Built as village church of Vreeswijk. Oldest church building in present-day Nieuwegein. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Single-nave late Gothic cruciform church with west tower and five-sided closed choir. The church is located inside the dike. Due to the dike raising, it has come to lie lower than the surroundings. In the second half of the 12th century, a tuff church was built here, consisting of a nave and a narrower choir. In the middle of the 14th century, the choir was replaced by a wider, five-sided closed choir with buttresses. After the building was destroyed between 1425 and 1428 during the Hoekse and Kabeljauwse wars, the choir was the first to be rebuilt. The 14th-century foundations were used for this. The nave was then rebuilt. The tuff stone that was still present was reused as wall cladding. At about the same time, construction of the current tower began. Around 1510, the church was enlarged to a cruciform church. The transept arms were built against the existing nave. At the end of the 18th century, the church and tower were extensively restored.

The church of Biggekerke is known to have been founded before 1247 as a daughter church of the Westmonster church in Middelburg. Until 1453, there were even two pastors' positions attached to it. During the Reformation, it also caused quite a stir here. The pastor at the time, Bernard Donder, was a convinced Calvinist and renounced the Roman Catholic church in 1566. Since then, he has also preached the Reformation in Biggekerke, something for which he had to pay with imprisonment. After being released and imprisoned several times, he fled to England or Germany. After this, a period began in which people could only meet secretly and in small numbers, in someone's house. But then, when Middelburg declared itself loyal to Orange, the Reformation could develop. At that time, there was still the problem that there were too few pastors, but in 1583, the classis of Walcheren assigned the first pastor to Biggekerke, the Rev. J. van Aecken.