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

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.

Reformed Church. Single-nave cruciform church in strict neo-classical brick architecture with semicircular upper windows, built in 1819-1820 to a design by the Amsterdam city architect Jan de Greef. At the crossing a roof turret with Doric columns and frontals. Internally a cove ceiling. Pulpit (out of use) from the construction period. Organ (National Monument) with Hoofdwerk and Bovenwerk, made in 1831 by the brothers J. and JMW Bätz (Utrecht).

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.

The Grote Kerk in the centre of the South Holland town of Leerdam is a late Gothic pseudo-basilica cruciform church. The church consists of a three-aisled nave, a five-sided closed choir, a 15th-century transept and a built-in Romanesque tower from the 13th century. The choir and the sacristy date from the second half of the 15th century and both have bacon layers. During the restoration in the period 1862-1863, the church was rebuilt in neo-Gothic style. During the restoration of 1957-1960 (and also the last restoration), the church was returned to the situation before 1862.

On the site of a former burnt down church from 1842. Large church with tower. One of the largest and most monumental still existing Reformed church buildings from the period 1850 - 1950. Now PKN.

It is a church built in neo-Gothic style, which was designed by H.J. from Tulder. The church, with a striking spireless tower, was built in 1857-1859. The ground pattern is a cruciform basilica with a three-aisled transept and ambulatory. The church replaced the medieval Willibrordus Church, which was located on the same site. Near the church is the Triumphal Maria flanked by two angels memorial, which was founded in 1894 by pastor-dean Arnoldus van de Laar. In 1976 the church was included in the Monuments Register as a national monument.

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.

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.

Designed and built in 1848 in neo-classical style by Rijkswaterstaat. During the restoration and modernization in 1990-1991, new construction was carried out at the rear that was not protected and the entrance was moved from the front to the rear. The church is currently used as an auditorium and concert hall of the Music School.