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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.

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.

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.

Three-aisled neo-Gothic pseudo-basilica without transept and tower, built under slight influence of the late Lower Rhine and Westphalian Gothic. Facade flanked by two low stair towers, simple roof turret above the choir. Plastered interior, provided with cross-ribbed vaults. During the liturgical renovations in the 1960s, the interior was simplified, whereby the neo-Gothic altars disappeared. The glazing is still intact. Behind the choir, modern extension De Borgh.

Important reconstruction church. This church replaced the church from 1913 that was badly damaged in the Second World War . Three-aisled basilica church with a wide central nave, narrow side aisles, narrowed and lowered choir section, and a front tower covered by a saddle roof. Built in traditionalist forms under the influence of Romanesque architecture.

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 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.

The church of SS Peter and Paul dates from 1861 and is listed as a Municipal Monument of the Netherlands.