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Reformed church. Elongated octagonal hall building from 1812, with blocked pilasters, pointed arch windows and roof turret. 17th century oak pulpit, organ from the first half of the 19th century, gravestones from 1820-1845.

Neoclassical church with tower, the crowning of which dates from 1951.

Simple church building with a heavy tower from the 13th century, during a major renovation of the church, bricked up with clinkers. The church has a 17th century pulpit. Oak pulpit from the 17th century. Single manual organ, made in 1861 by W. Hardorff. Mechanical tower clock G. de Looze, Leeuwarden, 1894. Churchyard.

Dutch Reformed Church. Rectangular, high brick building (1758), under one roof with the parsonage built against it on the south side. The parsonage has a sober cornice facade and has two floors with a low upper floor. Six-pane sash windows in the windows. One-manual organ, made in 1880 by E. Leichel in an older casement.

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.

At the end of August 2008, a start was made with the restoration of the 19th century reformed church. The church and tower were given a new roof, walls were repointed, etc. And especially the Roelf Meijer organ from 1874 was restored. This church is listed as a Municipal Monument of the Netherlands.

On the N. side of the single-nave nave remains of a tuff stone Romanesque church from the 12th century. Renovated in the 15th century, restored in 1956. Romanesque tower of brick, raised at the end of the 15th century, restored in 1957. At the site of the ME choir to the E. of the nave a choir-shaped extension from around 1700. During the restoration in 1971-73 the Romanesque appearance of the nave was reconstructed. Single-manual organ by Hans Goltfuss, originally made for the Gasthuiskerk in Delft in 1657. Reconstructed in 1973 and placed in Sassenheim. Bell frame with chime consisting of a bell by W. Wegewaert, 1592, diam. 126 cm and a modern bell. In the tower portal a bell by A. de Stomme, 1563, diam. 42 cm, has been decommissioned. Mechanical tower clock, B. Eijsbouts, 1906, equipped with electric winding. Above the entrance door of the church is a sundial on a red tile, 28 cm square, slightly obliquely built into the tuff wall.

Classical building from 1832, consisting of a three-aisled hall church covered by a saddleback roof with a facade divided by Doric half-columns and a pediment with triglyph list, behind which rises the built-in tower, with double Ionic pilasters and crowned by a dome on which an obelisk. Interior: Doric columns with segmental arches, barrel vault in stucco over the central nave, rib vaults over the side aisles. Oak pulpit from the second half of the 18th century, to which is a copper lectern with the crowned initials W. and M. from 1693; carved organ case. Oak bell frame with bell by JP Huaert, 1794, diam. 105 cm. Iron entrance gate between bluestone pillars with vase crowning. Originally a two-manual organ from the second half of the 17th century. In the previous century the Positive was removed. Restored in 1963.

Shortly after the embankment of 1364, Mastenbroek became an independent parish. At the same time, probably between 1364 and 1369, the church was built. The church was dedicated to Onze Lieve Vrouwe ter Zon. The church building was repeatedly restored and renovated, for example after a fire in 1647, of which renovation one of the inscriptions at the entrance still reminds us. The choir (1531) of the late Gothic single-nave building is somewhat narrower than the nave (1647). The tower was replaced by a new one in 1845.

The foundation stone for the Reformed Church was laid on 30 April 1914 by Rev. JE Bos. The hall church was built to a design by architect Geert Stapenséa . The built-in unarticulated church tower has a tent roof . The glazed ceramic square clock faces and some facade stones were made by Willem Coenraad Brouwer . On a facade stone is the text: That your eyes are open night and day over this house, o Lord . (1 Kings 8:29a). The organ from 1918 was made by Van Dam .