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The church building has a somewhat dark interior, but that effect is partly taken away by the painting in the choir wall (apsis). What is special is that various liturgical objects in the interior were made of molten copper from the church on the Noordstraat that was destroyed in 1940. Worth seeing is the chapel with the painting of Our Lady of the Polder. This has to do with the veneration of Our Lady in Vrouwenpolder. The painting is said to have been created in a miraculous way. Around 1340, a resident of Vrouwenpolder wanted a painting of Mary to be hung in the church of his village. The painter who was given the assignment failed. Then an unknown man came along who painted the desired canvas and then disappeared without a trace. People saw the hand of God in this.

The church of SS Peter and Paul in Aarlanderveen is a Neo-Gothic church with a high tower built in 1897 according to the designs of Joseph Cuypers (1861 - 1949). It is listed as a Municipal Monument.

Roman Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul, built around 1880 to a design by Evert Margry (1841 - 1891) (pupil of Pierre Cuypers (1827 - 1921)), in collaboration with (presumably) his brother AAJ Margry and JM Snickers, to replace a predecessor that had become too small. Three-aisled cruciform basilica in the characteristic and recurring style of the Margrys, inspired by early French Gothic, but in this case entirely in neo-Romanesque, round-arched shapes. Asymmetrical front with tower on the right corner, on the waterfront (see images below), simple staircase tower on the other corner. Internally covered by wooden barrel vaults (main naves). Stone cross vaults over the side aisles. The design shows many similarities with that of the H. Hartkerk in Rotterdam from the same period, also designed by Evert Margry (1841 - 1891), also neo-Romanesque, which was destroyed in the bombing of 1940 (the most important neo-Romanesque church by Evert Margry (1841 - 1891), however, was the St. Monicakerk in Utrecht, which was demolished in 1977).

Roman Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Reeuwijk (Dorp), built in 1889. Single-nave cruciform church with west tower in neo-Gothic style. Characteristic work in the oeuvre of the Rotterdam office Margry & Snickers, influenced by early French Gothic.

This church building replaced the Andreaskerk and the Petrus & Pauluskerk . The first pile for the new parish church of the HH Andreas, Petrus and Paulus was driven on 21 September 2004. The church replaced two other Roman Catholic church buildings in Maassluis.

Roman Catholic Church. Tower, single-aisled nave and two transepts against the nave from the years 1649-'99. Choir and transept, 1914. Pulpit, approx. 1700, baptismal font 17th century, 8 paintings, four pairs of cast copper candlesticks (17th century). Gravestone of Frederik van Schaesberg, approx. 1733. In the churchyard a hardstone cross, on which a small Calvary and 'memento mori'; ten stone grave crosses, 1710-1811; some fragments of sculptures. Mechanical tower clock.

Important neoclassical church, with tower/roof turret from 1844. Also called "PP church". Meritorious refurbishment of the interior in 2002. After the closure of 2 other churches, the OL Vrouw Onbscherpen Ontvangen in 1990, and the St. Nicolaas in 2009, this is the only Roman Catholic parish church in the whole of Den Helder. On 11 October 2015, festive attention was paid to the 175th anniversary of this church building.

Neoclassical facade with tower, 1852-1853, for modern church building. In the church a neo-baroque pulpit, an altar and chandeliers from the previous Waterstaatskerk. Mechanical tower clock, 1903, J. van de Kerkhof and Sons, in 1972 provided with electric winding. Is not in use.

Old Catholic Church of Sts. Peter and Paul. Church in neo-baroque style by PA Weeldenburg, 1908. Altar, communion bench, pulpit, baptismal font 18th century, as well as rich silverware, all from the clandestine church built in 1718 on the Delftsevaart.

Important reconstruction church, which replaced the predecessor destroyed in 1944. The current church from 1959 was designed by Hendrik W. Valk, in collaboration with FH Stoks. One of the last works from Valk's oeuvre, in traditionalist forms, on a so-called Christocentric floor plan. Asymmetrical front with two towers of different heights.