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Reformed Church. Single-nave building with three-sided closure, dating from 1783 according to the stone in the north wall. Internal wooden barrel vault. Mainly 17th century gravestones. Copper crown 1783; pulpit 18th century. Originally a single-manual organ, made in 1716 by M. Verhofstad and his assistant Th. Schiffers. In 1917 extended by Flentrop with a second manual and placed in this church. Restored in 1981 by Flentrop Orgelbouw.

In 1283 there was already talk of the Grashusen and the medieval church probably also dates from that time. In 1871, this monumental church and the tower were demolished, and instead a new church was built for the sum of 7000 guilders. It turned out to be a badly built church that required constant maintenance.

The wooden chapel Kernavė, which is next to the Church of the Holy Virgin Mary, was built in 1820-1822. The chapel was transferred to the care of the church, and was for a long time used only for storing church furniture. Unattended, the chapel gradually deteriorated and finally collapsed after the Second World War. In 1959, the building was renovated and repaired externally with vertical boards.

The church in Keski-Pori was built between 1859 and 1863, designed by architects Carl Johan von Heideken and Georg Theodor Chiewitz. A first church was built in connection with the foundation of the town in 1558 but was destroyed in a fire in 1698. The second church, built in 1701, was also destroyed in a fire in 1852.

The Tatar mosque of Keturiasdešimt Totorių was built in 1815 on a former mosque site from the reign of Vytautas the Great (1392 - 1430). The building has a rectangular plan with a square roof. At the top of the roof is a small minaret turret. It is octagonal, onion-shaped, with glass windows and a crescent-shaped point. The building was renovated in 1993.

Around 1834, the Reformed, who had separated from the Reformed Church in Varsseveld, wanted to build their own church. This was so opposed in the village that the Keurhorster farmer made a piece of his land available in 1842 to build the church there. And so it happened. It was the first church building of this new confession in the Achterhoek and, until more came in other places, churchgoers from half the Achterhoek came here on Sundays. In order to offer ministers who had to come here from elsewhere a reasonable travel opportunity, the board of the church asked in 1905 whether a stop of the railway line could not be made nearby. This was done, and since then the stop at the Hebink farm also existed in that railway line. The salary of the ministers was not high, around 1870 fl. 700.- per year, for his family of 8 people. In 1871 the minister complained to the church council that he was constantly walking around with wet feet because his clogs were worn out, and new ones cost three guilders. What was he going to do? Whereupon Colenbrander of the Meineman, near the church, left and returned a little later with his own clogs: "Here, minister, take the mines, I'll buy new ones".

The Khalid Efendi Mosque was probably built in 1415. It was built with the contribution of the villagers and rebuilt several times during its existence, in 1936, 1969, 1987. In 1994, the entire mosque with the minaret was rebuilt.

Moroccan mosque.

The Khalil Bey Mosque was probably built in the early 16th century since it was mentioned in 1569. According to archaeological findings, a Byzantine church of Agia Paraskevi already existed on the site of the mosque. From 1926 until the Bulgarian occupation (1941-1944), the Municipal Philharmonic was installed there. After the war, the minaret was demolished in the 1950s. The building is now used as a music hall.

The Khalsa centre was the first Sikh Gurdwara (temple) opened in Europe.