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The church of SS Cosmas and Damianus was built in 1958. The tower belongs to an earlier church on the same site that had to be demolished due to its ruinous state after World War II. In 2023 the decision was taken to adapt the building partially or totally for a residential function.

The church was put into use in 1922 as a successor to the original church in Groesbeek from 1836, which was a successor to a barn church that had been opened three years earlier and was destroyed by a storm. After the new church was put into use, the adjacent old Cosmas and Damianus church was demolished. The church was built to a design by Caspar Franssen and is a municipal monument.

Three-aisled in neo-Renaissance forms. Symmetrically arranged, obliquely positioned facade on the axis. Entrance portal with segmental pediment, crowned by cross. Statue of a saint under canopy on pier. Large, horizontally divided central window in Renaissance forms, flanked by similar blind niches under gable with palmette. The flanking towers, built in three sections, have a door with divided fanlight in the lower floor with rusticated work, a Renaissance window with central column and a round light in the second section, which, by means of bevelled corners, transitions into the polygonal third section on a balustrade decorated with palmettes and obelisks, in which blind niches and sound holes. Dome-shaped covering with slates. Stairwells with straight moulding at the side and slate roofs running up to the towers. Light openings in Renaissance forms.

Small church, replacing the large HH Engelbewaarderskerk , which was demolished in 1981. It contains several stained glass windows, as well as the foundation stone, from the large church. In this church there is a beautiful, small neo-Gothic organ from England, made in 1860 by JW Walker. Out of use as a Roman Catholic parish church in the early 2000s, later used by the African Roman Catholic community. The Walker organ has been moved to the H. Marthakerk on the Hoefkade in The Hague, where it serves as a choir organ.

The church, built on a polygonal, more or less star-shaped ground plan, is almost symmetrical in composition on all sides. The building is composed of a large number of building parts of very different volumes, the facades of which are terminated by recessed edges of plastered brick and gutters resting on blocks. The high-rising central part, the actual church space, is twelve-sided. The other building parts are three-, four- or five-sided. The roofs, which vary greatly in shape, are all covered with slates (Maas covering), provided with pirons on the ridge corners and small, triangular dormers with round-arched windows. The windows, which are rectangular or herringbone-shaped, have deep-set windows and terracotta tiles, the facades a transom window of approximately 1.5 metres high.

Sober, single-nave church in neo-Gothic and neo-Romanesque styles, with a three-sided closed choir and a slender, half-recessed tower with a constricted spire, built 1879-1881. Designed by Th. Asseler, executed after his death by AC Bleijs.

Roman Catholic parish church of the Guardian Angels in Badhoevedorp. Interesting interbellum church. The current church building was consecrated in 1937. It is a three-aisled basilica church with a front tower, covered by a saddle roof. The church was built in the Delft School style and inspired by Romanesque architecture. The chancel contains murals by Lambert Simon, with scenes from the Revelation of John, which were restored in 2011.

Important neo-Gothic church with tower. The current Ewaldenkerk replaced a church from 1822. The Ewaldenkerk in Druten is one of the most beautiful neo-Gothic churches in the Netherlands. The church is dedicated to Saint Ewalden, missionaries from England or Ireland who worked in the area of ​​the Cologne diocese in the 8th century, to which Druten then belonged. The church was built in 1877, during the boom in church construction that characterized Catholic Netherlands after the restoration of the episcopal hierarchy in 1853. 'Village cathedrals' from that period can be found throughout Maas en Waal, such as the Ewaldenkerk. They are enormous, stately buildings, often with richly decorated facades and interiors.

Tower from 1514. Church in neo-Gothic style renovated and expanded to a design by PJH Cuypers, 1877 until renovation in 1880. On October 21, 1944, the first grenades hit, hitting the leaning spire and creating a large hole. On Wednesday, November 22, 1944, the occupiers blew up the church tower. The tower fell on the old town hall and completely destroyed it. The tower was completely destroyed, the vaults of the church had collapsed, several pillars were completely destroyed, the outer walls were crooked, two-thirds of the roof had disappeared and the rest was badly damaged. The beautiful new organ, the confessionals, pews, Stations of the Cross and statues were crushed. After the war, it was decided to demolish the remains of the church.

The Raamstraatkerk in the city of Delft , in the Dutch province of South Holland , is officially called the HH Franciscus en Clarakerk , but is also known by its old name, the HH Nicolaas en Gezellenkerk . Since 2009, this church is one of the four Roman Catholic parish churches in the city and is part of the Sint Ursulaparochie .