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The church stands on the site of a medieval church that was probably built around 1300. The spire is made of wood. Under the wooden floor are four gravestones of the pastors from the time before the reformation.

Hall church with tower. Built as a Reformed church. Enlarged 1615, rebuilt 1769.

Ried (Rhede) borders the old monastery Anjum in the east, belonging to Menaldumadeel. In the past, noble states such as Anema, northeast of the village, still visible on the canals and court, Oud-Andla, southwest of the castle which was demolished in 1433, and Nieuw-Andla were located here.

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.

The previous church was destroyed by fire in 1928.

The Hervormde Kerk is a Protestant place of worship dating from 1939. Since 2002, after the Reformed Church was decommissioned in each location, it has been used as the central church of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN) in Exloërmond. The church organ was built in 1976 by the firm Gebr. Reil (Heerde).

Reformed church built in 1916 to a design by architect J. Beijlevelt from Amsterdam. An anonymous donor from the Soest area made the foundation of the church possible through a donation. The peat colony canal village, located in one of the younger development areas, emerged from the foundation of the Reformed Church in 1915.

Interesting reconstruction church with roof turret. Replaced a historic church destroyed by war.

Important small reconstruction church. Replaced the historic Reformed Church destroyed on 22 April 1945.

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.