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This reformed church on the Utrechtseweg in Renkum was put into use on 8 August 1928. The first stone had been laid the year before, on 2 December 1927. The building served as a replacement for a church from 1889 on the Molenweg. Design sketches date back to 1925 and were published as intended for a church in nearby Oosterbeek. It is likely that this is the same church. These sketches were much more daring and are much more in line with the expressive Amsterdam School than the final result. Due to war damage, the building is no longer original in all places and some additions have been made to the rear.

In 1836, 411 members left the Reformed Church of Almkerk and Emmikhoven to found their own church community. The meetings took place in houses and barns. Under the name Christian Separated Church of Almkerk and Emmikhoven, the church community was recognized on November 28, 1840. The meeting place, the barn of Branderhorst on the Kil, was replaced by the barn of Jan den Dekker, at the top of the sidewalk of the Straatweg in Nieuwendijk. In the year 1860, the church barn made way for a church building on approximately the same location.

Hall church with roof turret. Beautiful interior with important organ.

Modern church without tower. It replaced a church demolished in 1978. Reformed Church of Nijega, Opeinde and De Tike. The organ was built in 1989 by the firm Sicco Steendam (Warffum). Pipework from the previous organ of this church, which was delivered in 1913 by the firm L. van Dam & Zonen in Leeuwarden, was used for this.

Neo-Romanesque hall church without tower. The church and rectory have been designated as iconic buildings by the municipality of Leerdam. Three renovations have taken place, including a major expansion of the church hall in 2008.

Modern church with tower. Built to replace the wooden church destroyed by fire in 1962 .

This church building is now called (probably since about 2004, formation PKN) Ontmoetingskerk. Hall church without tower.

Hall church in neo-Romanesque style. Restored and renovated in 1955. A roof turret and (behind the church) a consistory were added at that time.

Modern church without tower. Built as Reformed Church (Liberated), since merger in 2023 NGK.

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the first Jews settled in Hoogezand. Initially, they held their prayer services in a private home; it was not until 1810 that a synagogue was established in a house in the Kalkwijk. In 1854, a new building was put into use north of the Winschoterdiep, which, in addition to the synagogue, also housed a school, a meeting room and a teacher's house.