Hall church, built in 1860 to replace the medieval village church (St Vitus). Narrower, three-sided choir closure, divided by round-arched niches between lesenes with entablatures. Plastered tower with round-arched niches and constricted spire. The plastered interior has a barrel vault rising from a cove moulding. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.
Mennonite church with extensions. The church has a neck gable dated 1857; heavily framed entrance. On either side service buildings under a saddle roof with a shield in front and behind and chimneys above. Six-pane windows. Cast iron fence along the church grounds. Pavement posts of the service buildings. Single manual organ, made in 1881 by Bakker and Timmenga.
Before the construction of the current church, there was a cow market on the site. In 1830, the Reformed Church was built here. This was expanded in 1868 with a transept. The church replaced the dilapidated St. Mauritius Church that belonged to the St. Mary's Monastery of the Carmelites. That church and the monastery were probably built in the 14th century and stood on the current cemetery on the Galamagracht in IJlst. The 16th century pulpit with baptismal fence, the board with the collection bags and the Bader pipework of the original organ were transferred from that church to the current Mauritius Church at the time.
The Gertrudiskerk (Church of St. Gertrudis) in Abbega is a Dutch Reformed Church built in 1809 over an earlier medieval church building.
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