The Garrison Church is the Reformed church of this fortified town. The church was built in 1641 for the Dutch garrison (although the year 1646 can be found in the Grote Poort). In 1972 the church underwent a thorough restoration. The church is owned by the municipality of Ravenstein. The square on the side is the former cemetery.
Neo-Gothic church with tower.
On 10 May 1940, 80 people lost their homes as a result of the Dutch army setting fire to all the buildings above the dike, including the church. This was to prevent the advancing Germans from firing at the Dutch lines at Ravenstein from those buildings. In this tragedy, a third of the village went up in flames. The church was not rebuilt until 1952.
Roman Catholic Church of St. Vincentius, single-nave neo-Gothic church with narrower three-sided closed choir and west tower with four-sided spire. (Church 1874 by C. van Dijk, spire 1919 by F. de Beer). In the church tower two bells, one cast in 1589 and one in 1662 by Henricus Wegewaert in Enkhuizen. Between main and side entrance statue of Mary with inscription "mother". Churchyard with prayer house and plaster, polychrome crucifix. Mortuary under saddle roof. Five priests' graves from 1862, 1901, 1915, 1918. (Deursen), spire 1919.
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