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Extension with annex. Restoration and renovation after war damage, with old tower.

Characteristic hall church without tower. Renovated and extended.

Built in 1950. Facades and materials: post-war church made of hand-moulded bricks, situated on an artificial hill, with a small cemetery with graves, including JH Boll (1924).

The single-nave neo-Gothic church built in 1887 with a three-sided choir closure under a saddle roof is built against the late 15th-century tower; the church and tower are strikingly situated near the Waaldijk. Built in brick and on a plinth, a four-bay long nave with buttresses cut between the windows and the sides of the choir with natural stone covering on the cutting and at the top; decorative brickwork molding under the gutter; wide lancet-shaped windows with tracery and in a frame of bright red brick and accents in natural stone; stained glass in a pointed diamond motif in green and white, along the edges of the windows strips in red and blue glass; on the roof covered with braised tiles three dormers covered with slates and provided with a piron; on the north side of the nave an extended entrance with double wooden door with fittings, set in a bright red brick frame; there also, the consistory room built against the tower under a hipped saddle roof with dormer; in the consistory room large windows with cross-bar division and slightly recessed round-arched fields above; the frame of the fields and the window styles in bright red stone; on the south side of the tower a mortuary house. In the interior a wooden barrel vault with tie rods and on cove, the ribs resting on consoles with decorative carvings; hexagonal pulpit and rear bulkhead with Gothic decorations from 1864, organ balcony on three simple wooden columns; wainscoting, gentlemen's pews and general pew plan made of wood; two late 19th-century psalm and hymn boards; two twelve-arm copper crowns from the construction period with tronies on the inside. At the entrance to the church two memorial stones from 1849 and 1887. Intact single-manual organ, made in 1857 by H. Knipscheer from Amsterdam. The neo-Gothic village church, built in 1887, is of cultural and architectural-historical value due to its location and the intactness of its interior and exterior, so that protection as a national monument is justified.

A single-aisled building with a five-sided closure, built in 1753, to which a northern extension, also closed on five sides, was added at the end of the 19th century. Memorial stone in the south-east facade 1753. Pulpit 17th century. Copper baptismal cymbal arm with cymbal 17th century; copper precentor's lectern 18th century. Psalm board 1769. Two-manual organ, made in 1874 by L. van Dam and Sons. This church is one of the 4 churches of the Protestant Community of Thomas, a regional community with that apostle name, consisting of Twisk, Hauwert, Midwoud and Oostwoud. The church itself is not called Thomaskerk.This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands

Tower of the Dutch Reformed Church. Brick building, two sections, with natural stone corner blocks and blind fields with arched friezes, second half of the 15th century. Bell tower with clock by Pieter Ostens, 1672, diam. 68 cm.

Important historical church with many extensions, especially the extremely interesting neo-style tower.Built as Dutch Reformed Church. Replaced an older church. Renovated in 1923. Since 2001, Samen Op Weg church. The church was restored in 2001. Action was taken to restore the tower dating from 1865.

Reformed church, built in 1812, rebuilt in 1861. Simple brick hall church in plan an elongated octagon, closed on three sides on the north and south sides, with a small tower on the roof. In the west wall a memorial stone for the foundation. The church has an oak pulpit with hourglass holder and copper lectern, all 18th century. Oak bell frame, 1813, with bell by anonymous founder, ca. 1812-1830.

Modern church with high historical tower of the previous demolished church.

Reformed Church. Single-nave church, of which the tower was demolished before 1515 and the choir in 1815. West gable 19th century B; the east gable contains remains of the demolished choir section on the corners and further consists of masonry from 1815. Internal wooden barrel vault in the keystones letters, a coat of arms and the year 1547. Recently restored. Beautiful pulpit 17th century A; copper baptismal arch 18th century B; three large twelve-arm copper crowns, the largest 1644. Organ with main work and upper work, made in 1883 by L. van Dam and Sons.