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This was an interesting church in neo-Gothic forms. Out of use 1964, scrapped in 1965.Replaced by a modern church building.

Reformed church. Rebuilt 16th century after fire around 1500. Crucifix church without choir with open roof turret at the crossing. In the west wall a gate with a basket-handle arch and a large closed arch window. Nave and transept of brick with sandstone corner blocks in the bears. In the basements of the walls on the south side moldings of tufa, originating from an earlier church. Nave covered by a wooden barrel vault and aisles by half-half barrel vaults. Nave separated from transept by a painted partition 19th century. Transept with high closed windows in the north and east side, roofing as in the nave. In use as a consistory and winter church. Board with the name list of ministers. Interior: fragment of a baptismal font of red sandstone. Pulpit 18th century, copper lectern. Baptismal fence 17th century with candle holder. Pew 18th century with alliance coat of arms. Two pews. Three copper crowns around 1700. Board with the name list of ministers. Interior: fragment of baptismal font of red sandstone. Pulpit 18th century, copper lectern. Baptismal fence 17th century with candle holder. Gentlemen's pew 18th century with alliance coat of arms. Two pews. Three copper crowns circa 1700. In the tower on the crosswork is the modern bell from 1950. During the Second World War, a bell from an unknown founder disappeared. A second bell, made in 1532 by Jacob Waghevens, was preserved after the war and was subsequently placed in the church. There is also said (?) to have been a bell by J. van den Ghein from 1532.

Reconstruction church with turret and roof turret.

This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

NH Church. Square brick building from 1693 designed by Johan van Swieten. Square, domed covered bell chamber on the roof, which is supported internally by four wooden columns. Against the rear facade a square staircase tower. Above the entrance with natural stone frame a niche, in which a natural stone cartouche with inscription: 1693, and the coat of arms of the king-stadholder Willem III, by the sculptor Jan Blommendaal.

Reformed Church. Still entirely Romanesque brick church with four-sided choir closure, the masonry of which is provided with lesenes, round arch frieze and a dentil moulding. Few built-in somewhat older also brick saddle roof tower. The east wall of the tower may originally have belonged to a mid-12th century westwork. The current appearance of the tower and nave dates back to the end of the 12th century. In the 13th century the choir was built. The pointed arch windows were installed in the 16th century. Internally a barrel vault from 1604. The nave has a wainscoting of purple (flamed) tiles; rococo pulpit with rear bulkhead and hood, mid-18th century with carvings on the tub, baptismal fence with candle holder, lord's pew with carved back piece from 1775; two 17th century and three 18th century gravestones inside, in the churchyard five 18th century and one from 1618. Bell frame with the sound of two bells, one by Gert, 1477, diam. 110 cm. and one by P. Overney, 1686, diam. 109 cm. Mechanical tower clock B. Eijsbouts, Asten, 1916, no. 559, later fitted with a synchronous motor.

The church in Molenaarsgraaf, beautifully restored in 1961, consists of a wide single-aisled nave from the first half of the 16th century and a narrower, three-sided closed choir, built around 1500. During the restoration, several traces were found of a church that must have stood there earlier. The cast-iron windows from the 19th century were replaced by brick windows during the restoration. The windows were fitted with stained glass with bronze bridge rods. The bell was made in 1710. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Historic church with tower. Originally dedicated to St. Barbara.

Situated on elevated ground, on the site of the medieval cruciform church that was demolished in 1879, a small hall church designed by A. van der Haven in the 'Waterstaat style' in 1880-81 with a three-sided closed consistory room under a slate saddle roof, with a gilded weathercock, and with a built-in front tower, fitted with four clock faces with gilded numbers and hands above the double sound holes, a brick balustrade with four corner turrets and a hexagonal, slate-covered spire with a tower cross.

The Dutch Reformed Church of Boornbergum was built in 1734. The church was built on the foundations of a predecessor made of tuff stone, the bell tower with saddle roof of which had partially collapsed on 5 December 1733. The current church building is of the hall church type. Its interior includes several centuries-old gravestones, a 17th-century pulpit, a copper baptismal bowl made in 1614 and an organ built in 1925 by the Leeuwarden firm Bakker en Timmenga.