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Beautiful village church with charming, iconic tower. Characteristic Protestant interior, almost completely filled with pews. The "attention wall" with pulpit and baptismal font is located in the right (= southern) side of the interior. In that wall are also two colorful modern stained glass windows, on either side of the pulpit. This church is listed as a Municipal Monument of the Netherlands.

Brick church from the 14th century. The tower was originally separate from the church and is somewhat older. The church has a Romanesque Bentheimer stone baptismal font. Under the choir lie several mummies. Enlarged in 1849, choir built in 1915.

In the church under the organ gallery hangs the certificate of the union of the Reformed Church and the Reformed Church, September 17, 1997, when the Samen op Weg community Via Pacis - the way of peace - in Beetsterzwaag was called Olterterp. Now the Protestant community Via Pacis. This church is still regularly used for evening services and special services. The community holds the morning services in De Ontmoetingskerk (the former Reformed Church).

Dutch Reformed Church. Rectangular hall church with wooden barrel vault and tie beams, lit by round arch windows, 18th century. Simple tower with constricted spire, probably from 1721. The inventory includes: a pulpit in Louis XVI forms with a copper lectern and baptismal fence holder. A baptismal fence with a copper baptismal arch from the same period and a precentor's lectern. Four simple benches, two of which with a canopy, 18th century. Three copper crowns, 18th century. Some tombstones from the 16th and 17th centuries. Single manual organ, made in 1809 by PJ Geerkens. Restored in 1982 by Leeflang Orgelbouw. ​​Bell frame with bell by P. Waghevens, 1503, diam. 82 cm and a bell by an anonymous founder, 14th or 15th century, diam. 60.5 cm.

Dutch Reformed Church, 1657. Simple hall building. Tower with wooden crowning, 1839. Organ with main work and upper work, made in 1845 by the brothers HB and GW Lohman. Restored in 1980 by Flentrop Orgelbouw and extended with a free Pedal. Bell frame with clock by C. and J. Seest, 1783, diam. 70.5 cm. A wooden south pointer is placed on the south wall of the church.

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

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.

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 Dorpskerk in Abbenes is a charming village church dating from 1868. It is listed as a Municipal Monument of the Netherlands.