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The HH Michaël en Clemenskerk originally belonged to the Capuchin Order. Around 1916, the Capuchins made the first plans to found a monastery in Rotterdam. Initially, they focused on the Katendrecht district. In 1918, they even bought a piece of land (located between Maashaven NZ and Tolhuislaan). However, this turned out to be unfavourably located and in 1922 it was bought back by the municipality. Instead of building a new monastery, they bought a building on Rechthuislaan where a small community settled from December 1921 onwards. The ground floor served as a church. The whole was consecrated on 29 December 1921.

Built in 1882 to a design by architect MC van Wijngaarden in neo-Romanesque style. The patron saints of the parish are Saint Michael and John the Baptist. The baroque altar and other church materials date from the seventeenth century, when services were held in a clandestine church on the Markt.

Marlstone church. In 1139, the old church of Berg was first mentioned as the property of the chapter of Saint Servatius in Maastricht. In 1770, the nave was built as a hall church against the old marlstone tower. In 1826, the choir was built to a design by Mathias Soiron. A sacristy was also built. In 1848, the western nave bay and the tower were built. The choir was also raised and provided with a new apse. Furthermore, the sacristy was expanded to the east. The old church was situated near the Oude Kerkstraat and in 1955, when the building was demolished, it consisted of a single-nave nave, a largely built-in church tower with an octagonal spire and a slimmer choir. In 1933, a new church building was built elsewhere in the village to a design by Frits Peutz and Willem Sprenger, the current Monulphus and Gondulphus Church.

The neo-Gothic church of Saints Monulphus en Gondulphus was built according to a design by architects Frits Peutz (known for his modernist work) and Willem Sprenger. The saints Gondulphus and Monulphus, to whom the church is dedicated, were two bishops of Maastricht in the 6th century. The cemetery contains a monumental mortuary, where the deceased used to be laid out.

Beautiful barn church, enlarged 1633, renovated 1826. Richly detailed interior. Dedicated to Saint Nicholas. In the late 1970s, the Old Catholic Parish of St. Nicholas merged with the Old Catholic Parish of St. Mary Magdalene in Zaandam. Since then, this parish has been called "St. Nicholas and St. Mary Magdalene". Regular church services take place in Krommenie. Occasionally, an Old Catholic service still takes place in Zaandam.

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.

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.

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.

The Roman Catholic HH Petrus en Pauluskerk from 1924 replaced a church by architect Th. Asseler from 1867 that had become too small. It is a large church without a tower, in late neo-Gothic forms, designed by the Bergen architect Jan Leijen (1876-1958). At the crossing there is a small roof turret; semi-circular apse on the south side (the church is not oriented). To the right of the front facade is the parsonage, which is a remnant of the previous church from 1867. The spacious cruciform basilica was designed according to the guidelines of the Liturgical Movement from the early 20th century, in which all believers find a place in the wide central nave. The interior, executed as fair-faced masonry, is covered by rib vaults. Architecturally, there is a slight relationship, both externally and internally, with the church buildings of Joseph Cuypers from the 1920s. The seven stained-glass choir windows date from the construction period and represent the Seven Sacraments. They were made by Lou Asperslagh (1893-1949) from The Hague. The Stations of the Cross (1944) and a mural "The Miracle of Bergen" (1949) were made by the Bergen artist Jaap Min (1914-1987). The original main altar from the Haarlem studio Maas (ca. 1910) was initially in the previous church and was replaced in 1974 by a forward-placed altar table by the aforementioned Jaap Min. The organ by the Pels company (Alkmaar) dates from 1932.