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Reformed Church and tower on churchyard. Single-nave church building with three-sided closure, according to the inscription above the entrance on the west side built in 1718 and provided with a tower in 1765. In the church pulpit with carved panels between fluted columns on the tub, cartouche on which coat rack knob, sounding board and stairs. all benches from the construction period with knobs. In the tower bells from 1775 and 1812. Organ by JF Wenthin 1785 on a swivelled balustrade with lectern.

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.

Tower of the Reformed Church because of a bell frame with a bell by M. Fremy, 1683, diam. 73 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.

Small protestant church.

This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

In 1575, the previous church was largely destroyed by fire. The nave of this church was rebuilt in its original state. The ruins of the choir were never restored. The church was severely damaged by salt water during the flood disaster of 1953. After the disaster, the church was thoroughly restored. The tower was straightened. On 17 July 1958, a new organ was put into use. Because the salt water had penetrated deep into the walls, the plaster layer of the walls regularly came loose. The inside of the walls was thoroughly restored in 1997. A new layer of plaster was applied, which means that the problem of the walls coming loose will probably be a thing of the past. The church is called Sint-Alardskerk.

Small expressionist church with tower. Built to replace the previous Reformed Church that burned down in 1923. Together with the historic church in Stompetoren, this church building is used for services by the Protestant Community of Schermer.

Dutch Reformed Church. Simple hall building from 1815. Bell tower with clock by Bakker and Pootman, diam. 45 cm. The first Reformed Church, on the Zwaluwsedijk, was destroyed during the war in 1944. A new Reformed Church was built on the Grintweg in 1953, based on a design by C. van der Bom. After the formation of the PKN community, the last service was held in that church on 21 August 2005. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

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.