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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.

Neo-Romanesque church with a small tower.

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.

Beautiful neoclassical church with tower. Restoration in 1947. In Bovensmilde, along the Drentse Hoofdvaart, lies the site with the Reformed Church and associated parsonage. Due to its intactness and beautiful location, the complex was declared a national monument in 1995. These national monuments are of both cultural-historical and architectural-historical importance. In 2010, the church building was transferred by the owner, the Protestant community of Bovensmilde, to Het Drentse Landschap. The parsonage followed in 2015. The church was built between 1868 and 1870 and is a so-called Waterstaatskerk. Such churches were built in the period 1824-1875 with financial support from the national government. The building has neoclassical features, such as the symmetrical construction and the use of pediments and cornices. The parsonage dates from 1862 and is eclectic in style. The parsonage is a national monument.

Beautifully situated church with tower from 1671. Expanded several times. Especially from the churchyard clearly visible.

Reformed CHURCH; tower brick building, lower part late Romanesque with lesenes and arched friezes, upper part late Gothic. Low XIV choir. Internal rococo grave monument for lord of the manor Balthasar de Leeuw 1754. Pews and pulpit. (The tower of the church is owned by the municipality of Houten). Mechanical tower clock, probably 1886, later fitted with an unprotected synchronous motor.

Extension in 1919. Demolished in 1961 for new construction.

Cruciform church with roof turret in neo-Gothic forms. Built as a Reformed Church. This is now the church building of the Protestant Church (PKN) in Loenen aan de Vecht. In addition, in Loenen there is also the historic Village Church, as a Reformed Church with a Reformed Bond signature.