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Hegra church is a wooden church dating back from 1783. The architects of the building are Erich Must and J. Strøen.

The Heidal church was built after the old Heidal church of 1754 burned down due to a lightning strike in 1933. Only the silverware, the candlestick, the altar books and the crucifix were saved. The construction of a new church started quickly and already in 1941 the new church was consecrated.

The Saint Dionysius Church in Tilburg, also known as the Heikese Church, was originally a barn church in the 't Heike area.

Modest church hall with roof turret, built as a Reformed Church. In the context of the Samen Op Weg process, it was taken out of use as a Reformed Church in 1985. Since 1985 it has been in use as a Roman Catholic chapel, community hall and mass centre of the Dogmatic Union (a traditionalist Roman Catholic foundation founded in 1981 by the late chaplain WJ Kouwenberg), with the name Church of the Holy Altar Sacrament .

Neo-Gothic church, further details to be checked.

With elements of Neo-Romanesque in 1931 to a design by the architects Caspar and Jos. Franssen from Roermond built church in honour of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The church is situated in a small park. In front of the church is a Sacred Heart statue from around 1935 in artificial stone on a plinth of Kunradersteen. Around the Sacred Heart statue is a natural stone wall with columns with iron bars in between. At the rear of the church on the altar side is a Lourdes grotto also from around 1935 (1940 according to the year at the grotto) built from so-called hard mine stone with an altar table, a pulpit and a niche with a statue of Mary.

Characteristic work from the oeuvre of Hendrik W. Valk (1886-1973) from 's Hertogenbosch, designed according to the so-called Christocentric design (priest's chancel at the intersection of nave and transept). The wide, brick-vaulted nave is flanked by two side aisles; against the tower two transepts. The interior is entirely built of beautiful brickwork. Characteristic are the sculpted apostle heads by Jozef Cantré (1890-1957) and the painted Stations of the Cross by Lodewijk Schelfhout (1881-1943). The stained glass windows are by Joep Nicolas (1897-1972). The robust, relatively low tower body is crowned by an imposing spire.

The population continued to expand and the emergency church became too small. In 1935-'36 the current church was built of brick. The design is in the expressionist style of J. Cuypers and P. Cuypers jr. More information about the architecture can be found at the Stichting Wetenschapsinstituut Glasschilderkunst 20e eeuw. The clock was made by the Eysbouts company in Asten in 1936. In that same year the church was blessed by dean Souren and the new church could be put into use. Finally in 1937 the rectory was elevated to an independent parish. The bishop of Roermond appointed rector Schippers as the first pastor of the parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Three-aisled neo-Gothic pseudo-basilica with west tower and choir section, which was later enlarged and raised.

Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Heart, BECAUSE of the single-manual organ with 10 registers, made in 1830 by the Gebr. Schauten from Jüchen, Germany) for the St. Peter's Church in Gulpen, placed in Heerlen-Schandelen in 1928. Restored in 1968 by the company DA Flentrop (Zaandam).