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Important large church with a defining wooden tower. Since 1986 Samen op Weg (merger process Dutch Reformed, Reformed and Lutheran). In 2004 a modern multifunctional centre was built against the left side wall of the church, named "Bartel Jacobsz Centrum". In the early 2010s managed by a Foundation, which campaigns for preservation and necessary restoration, which took place in 2015 - 2017. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

In May 1929, the restoration of the Reformed Church in Neede was started. In order to install the central heating, the wooden floor was broken open. In the process, fragments of a sculpture were found in the middle of the building.

Single-nave cruciform church on a centralizing plan with a tower, provided with an elegant spire with onion-shaped crowning, built in 1900-1901 to a design by Barend Hooijkaas jr. (1855-1943). It is one of the two still existing church buildings from his oeuvre: the other is the Dorpskerk in Pernis (1926). The previous church was lost to fire in 1899. The tower is a free copy of that of the burnt down church. Interior from the construction period.

On 21 March 1829 it was decided to demolish the old church, which dated from 1662, and to build a new church. The tender for the construction took place on 2 May 1829 and the construction was awarded to Gebr. A. Brouwer, contractors in Meppel. The contract price was 7,500 guilders. On 9 June 1829 the demolition of the old church was started. The then mayor Van der Gronden laid the first stone. The church was completed on 1 July 1829.

NH Church. Three-aisled hall church with a three-sided closed choir, a north choir and a tower with an octagonal superstructure and a spire. The oldest parts of the church date back to the 13th century; the tower with perpendicular buttresses dates from the 14th century. The nave and the north aisle were built in the second half of the 15th century. The south aisle served as a Walloon Church from 1618 to 1808 and was separated from the rest of the church around 1685. During a major renovation in 1868, the church was completely plastered on the outside and the windows were given new traceries. After a lightning strike, the tower was restored and deplastered in 1950. The interior is covered by a flat stucco ceiling from 1868. An important part of the interior is the pulpit with surrounding baptismal garden in Louis XVI style: donated in 1794 by descendants of Jacob Cats. The single manual organ was built in 1903 by JF Kruse (Leeuwarden).

Dutch Reformed Church. Simple building of late 18th century character, with three-sided closures on the east and west sides, an extension with pediment on the north side and a heavy brick tower on the west side, the lower part of which gives the impression of being late medieval, but which otherwise dates from the 19th century. Inventory: beautifully carved pulpit with baptismal fence and decorated psalm boards in Lod. XV shapes. Richly carved organ case in transition Lod. XIV-Lod. XV. In it an organ with main work, upper work and free pedal, built in 1852 by CFA Naber (Deventer). Bell tower with bell by H. Meurs, 1604, diam. 91 cm.

The first stone of this church was laid in 1742 by Hector Livius van Haersma, aged 5. Because Drachten was a peat digging village at the time, the weather vane shows 3 peat pieces.

Interesting reconstruction church in traditionalist style, built under the influence of the sober Protestant church architecture of the eighteenth century and classicism. The crowning of the tower dates from 1976.

The Grote Kerk in Almelo is a historic church which dates from 1493.The church was originally founded in 1236 by the Lord of Almelo as a castle chapel. The choir was rebuilt in 1493, and the transept and the nave in 1738. It has been in use by Protestant worship since 1619. In 1873, the church was largely renovated and immediately enlarged. It currently belongs to the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN). It is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

The current reformed church stands on the site where a chapel was built in the fourteenth century. The first mention of the chapel dates from 1381. The then lord of Driebergen is considered the founder of the chapel: Willem van Abcoude.