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Dutch Reformed Church. Simple Gothic church from 1794 with a bell spire above the west facade from 1869. Internal oak pulpit (recently painted pastel) with sounding board. Bell tower with bell by N. Rogier, 1629, diam. 110.5 cm. Mechanical wrought iron tower clock, ca. 1870. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

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.

In 1860, built against the old, already protected tower in beautiful brickwork, a five-bay long church hall under a slate-covered saddle roof and with a lower, flat-roofed, three-sided closed consistory room against the five-sided closure. The facades are divided by once-intersected, chevron-shaped covered buttresses, are closed off with (ascending) round-arched friezes and have a round-arched window per bay with beautiful wooden traceries dating from the construction period. Internally, the bays are separated by columns resting on consoles - incorporated in a wide, all-round, profiled window sill list - on which the ribs of the stucco net vault - segmental arch vault with insert vaults above the windows - come down. Original, sober bench plan with gentlemen's benches along the side facades; pulpit dating from the construction period with neo-Gothic and neo-Lod.XIV carvings; organ from 1899 (restored in the 1960s). Simple, but good example of a mid-19th century village church.

The Dutch Reformed Church of Nijega is originally a medieval hall church, dedicated to St. Agatha. After a major renovation in 1893 by municipal architect DD Duursma, the church was given its current appearance. The bell tower was also built in that year. The two bells in it came from the belfry, which stood in the churchyard. The year 1381 is mentioned on the oldest preserved bell. A bell from 1793 was removed by the Germans during WWII and replaced in 1957. The entrance gates decorated with cast iron death symbols also date from 1893.

Reformed Church. Single-nave building, 15th? with built-in late Romanesque tower. Against the east wall an extension with burial vault of the Du Peyrou family; alliance coat of arms in the facade, 18th. Baptismal fence 17th, copper baptismal arch 1729. Pew, 18th, Epitaph, 1785. Gravestones, 16-17th. Copper chandelier and three copper candle arms, 18th. Organ with main work and secondary work, made in 1876 by P. Flaes. Bell frame with clock by François and Pieter Hemony, 1650, diam. 107.5 cm. Mechanical tower clock by Eijsbouts, 1934, with electric winding.

Historical church with roof turret, Originally a Gothic church building, now consisting only of a single-aisled nave of seven bays, with a wooden roof turret on the ridge and an extended portal against the east facade. The church is oriented and stands on the spacious, moated churchyard in the centre of the village.

Dutch Reformed Church. 14th century tower and three-sided closed church completed in 1471. Inventory: pulpit 1703.

Characteristic hall church without tower. Renovated and extended.

Nice church with a big tower. In 2002 Samen op Weg (SOW) church together with the Dutch Reformed Church. Redesigned in 2004.

The building has a two-sided closed hipped roof, covered with a black glazed Frisian corrugated tile, against a straight front facade; under the gutter (not original) a frieze of decorative brickwork in red, yellow and lime sand brick. The rear facade is crowned by an octagonal piron with plume. The two side facades (north and south), which are divided into four by brick lesenes, each have four pointed arch windows with cast iron tracery under a pointed arch of dark brick. The front facade (west) with a climbing frieze of red, yellow and dark brick is flanked on both corners by pilasters with recessed surfaces of lime sand brick and is crowned by a roof turret. The roof turret has a plastered lantern with pointed arch-shaped sound holes and a constricted spire covered with slates; under the roof turret a (non-original) clock face with: anno 1958. In the middle of the front facade a double panel door with a brick stoop (two steps) under a pointed arch of red and yellow brick surrounded by dark stone; in the arch drum filled with red brick a pointed arch-shaped facade stone with the text: built in 1889, churchwardens DB Smedema, OR Clevering, WO Wolthuis. To the left of the door two bricks with the initials WW and OC and to the right of the door two with Ds. E. and DS. On either side of the entrance a pointed arch window with cast iron tracery under a pointed arch of red brick surrounded by a projecting pointed arch of dark stone with blocks; the sills of dark brick also have blocks. Above the entrance a cast iron rose window with a roll layer of red, yellow and lime sandstone.