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NH Church. Simple plastered hall church; large roof turret on the saddle roof. Round arch windows. Bell tower with bell by Nicolaus, 1315?, diam. 85.5 cm. Mechanical tower clock B. Eijsbouts, Asten with electrically driven clock and striking mechanism.

The Reformation also drove out the priests in Sebaldeburen. It is not known how the service was performed at that time. In the year 1602 Nicolaus Petri took charge of the service here. At that time there was a combination with Grijpskerk. This probably lasted until 1606. Then there is mention of a joint minister for Grootegast and Sebaldeburen: Thomas Joannis. The stamp above the entrance was left by Rev. Nicolaus Westendorp on the reformed congregation when the new church was put into use in 1807. Because it was this Rev. Westendorp who, when he became minister of Sebaldeburen in 1797, was very annoyed by the dilapidated church he found there. He says it like this: "When I came to the Community (in 1797) I had considered the pitiful condition of the Church with the saddest emotions. This feeling became tormenting, as often as I imagined the approaching moment when the care for our lives would force us to avoid it. There was no repairing it: it was not possible to establish a new one from the church goods and income, because they were not even sufficient to maintain the Parsonage and Sacristan. There was also no expectation of the Community; because it was small, burdened by other institutions and consisted mainly of peat and laborers."

Since 1968, the building has been registered as a national monument in the monument register . Since 1989, the church has been managed by 'the Foundation for the Management of the Reformed Church' in Krommeniedijk. The building is also used for non-church activities, such as weddings, mourning, meetings and for exhibitions.

Modern church, built as Reformed Church (Liberated) to replace an earlier temporary home of this denomination. Since 2023 NGK

Reformed Church, built in 1773-1775 in the shape of a Greek cross, designed by the Amsterdam city architect JE de Wit. Beautiful lead-covered tower. Internal wooden barrel vaults. Furniture (pulpit, pew) from the 17th and 18th centuries. Organ with main work, upper work and pedal, made in 1865 by Flaes and Brünjes (Amsterdam). Bell frame with clock by Cornelius van Ammeroy, 1603, diam. 118.1 cm. Mechanical tower clock, circa 1880.

Beautiful reconstruction church with roof turret.

The Reformed Church in Rozenburg was instituted on 15 March 1855 and on 13 May 1888. In December 1944, a small part of the congregation declared itself Free. This is how the Reformed Church (Liberated) in Rozenburg was founded. The church building at Emmastraat 75 was built in the 1950s on a plot of land between the back gardens of two parallel streets. Partly due to its recessed location, the building is hidden between the surrounding buildings. The architect of the building was A. Warnaar in Maasland. In 1973, the church building was expanded on both sides. In 1983, the church building was expanded again for more spacious meeting facilities. The attention of the interior, which appears square due to the widening, is drawn to the organ front that has been expanded opposite the large church window.

Dutch Reformed Church. Single-nave, late Gothic village church with a three-sided closed choir, probably second quarter 16th century. Restored after a fire in 1898, when the original roof turret was omitted and a tower was built on the west side. Restored again in 1925-1926 and in 1980. The inventory includes: two copper crowns, 18th century, several tombstones from the 17th and 18th centuries and a copper baptismal font holder on the pulpit, 17th century. Organ case from 1901 by J. Proper.

The church is a Gothic building of brick on a tuff base. The single-nave nave dates from the end of the fifteenth century or the beginning of the sixteenth century with a heavy, brick west tower. The wooden barrel vault was restored in 1657, according to the inscription on one of the tie beams. In 1838 the choir was demolished and the consistory was built in its place. During a restoration in 1952-1953 the floor was renewed and the window tracery in the windows changed. On this occasion the pulpit was moved. The ceiling was replaced in 1995.

The Hervormde Kerk (Reformed Church) in Aarlanderveen was built in 1905. It replaced an earlier church, which was demolished. Several artefacts were transferred from the older church to the new one including a pulpit with baptismal fence from the second half of the 17th century; a stone late Gothic baptismal font, used as a base for the pulpit; fronts of pews from the 18th century and two copper lecterns from the 17th century.