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Built in 1849-51 to a design by I. Warnsinck on the site of the Gothic hall church that had been demolished in 1844 and in connection with the - separately protected - medieval Sint Janstoren. The church building, built in red brick, alternating with yellow ornamental bricks, on a natural stone plinth under slate-covered saddle and lean-to roofs, is straight-ended and contains an extended entrance portal on the east side, with the main entrance fitted with double panelled doors, a semi-circular and subdivided fanlight, a wooden pilaster frame and two lanterns with a wrought-iron volute arm, as well as a rose window in the pointed top and narrow side entrances on either side of the portal.

This is the oldest (still existing) church on Texel. This church is one of the three churches of the Protestant Wadden Sea Community of Texel, together with the Seamen's Church in Oudeschild and the Wadden Church in De Cockdorp. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Church building located behind the IJsselmeerdijk, built in 1632 on the foundations of a late 16th-century predecessor and consisting of a two-aisled hall church until 1892. In 1658 the church was expanded with a south aisle, which was demolished again in 1892. Since then it has been a single-aisled building again.

Dutch Reformed Church from 1856, tending towards water board style, with historical tower. Formerly dedicated to St. Pancratius.

Important large church with a defining wooden tower. Since 1986 Samen op Weg (merger process Dutch Reformed, Reformed and Lutheran). In 2004 a modern multifunctional centre was built against the left side wall of the church, named "Bartel Jacobsz Centrum". In the early 2010s managed by a Foundation, which campaigns for preservation and necessary restoration, which took place in 2015 - 2017. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Groote or Nieuwe Kerk (Protestant church - Reformed Church). Renaissance city church with tower. One of the most monumental Protestant church buildings in the Netherlands from the 17th century, with a world-famous organ. The land of the former redoubt was purchased on 24 June 1612 for the construction of a cemetery. In that same year, on 10 November, the reverend Johannes Fenacolius (1577-1645) bought the construction drawings of the Noorderkerk to be built in Amsterdam. The design for that church was by Hendrick de Keyser, Cornelis Dankersz. van Seevenhoven and Hendrick Jacobsz. Staets. As Hendrick de Keyser had died, the plans were purchased from his son Pieter. The Nieuwe Kerk (1665) in Groningen was also built according to this design.

In the night of 6 to 7 January 1654, De Rijp was shocked by a raging fire, which would eventually reduce a very large part of the village to ashes; 660 buildings went up in flames. The tower and the roof of the Grote Kerk were also lost. The restoration of the church was tackled with great vigour and the following year it could be put back into use.

Built as a Reformed Church. Expansions 1766, 1801 and 1804. The Grote Kerk is closely linked to the history of the place Hoogeveen. At the beginning of the dyeing in 1631, by the General Company of the 5000 Tomorrow, it was determined that an area of 100 tomorrow had to be kept separate from peat including ground. The proceeds were for church, school and the poor.

The first stone of this church was laid in 1742 by Hector Livius van Haersma, aged 5. Because Drachten was a peat digging village at the time, the weather vane shows 3 peat pieces.

In May 1929, the restoration of the Reformed Church in Neede was started. In order to install the central heating, the wooden floor was broken open. In the process, fragments of a sculpture were found in the middle of the building.