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Modern church without tower.

Modern church without a tower in the Emmerhout district, with the former address De Dilgt 400.

The current organ was built by the firm DA Flentrop in 1959 for the Eudokia church in Enschede. It has been in De Schoof in Daarlerveen since 2002.

Rather inconspicuous modern church without tower, built 1983-1984. Before that, the Christian Reformed Community of Purmerend, founded on January 1, 1973, had various temporary shelters. Severely damaged by fire in October 2004. Restoration and expansion in 2006.

Large and extremely interesting former synagogue. In 1799, a synagogue was consecrated in what is now called the Schutstraat. This building was demolished in 1865-1866 and replaced by a new synagogue. During the Second World War, almost the entire Jewish population of Hoogeveen was arrested and deported to extermination camps via labor camps. The synagogue was plundered and damaged by the Germans in February 1944. In 1948, the building was sold and for many years it served as the Reformed Church Liberated (GKV), with the name Schutstraatkerk. The GKV redecorated the building on the inside, including the installation of an organ. In 1996, the GKV sold the building to the Baptist community, which named the former synagogue "De Schutse". It turns out that there are now three Baptist communities in Hoogeveen. The Schutse meets at Schutstraat 147. This is the former synagogue and former Reformed Church. (52-04/59-08)

The Sint-Martinus Church of Wezemaal is one of the most beautiful late medieval village churches of Flemish Brabant, with an unusually monumental west tower for a village church.

The Sint-Pieterskerk and the rural churchyard of Langdorp

Church centre in the west of Boskoop, without tower. Renovated and redecorated in 2000.

Neo-Gothic church without tower, built by the Dutch Protestant Association (NPB). Now in use as the Liberal Centre "De Stroming" of the NPB Midden-Drenthe.

Around 1630, a few dozen Lutheran immigrants from Denmark and Holstein lived in Edam. They held house services on Sundays, in which a sermon or another text by Luther was read. When these house services were banned by the government, they continued to hold these meetings in secret. From 1636 to 1640, they even had a kind of preacher, a layman named Pieter van Aengelen (van Engelen) from Holstein, who had received a certain theological education. He had worked as a master servant for a silk importer and had been found suitable to preach in Waterland by the Amsterdam Brotherhood, the so-called Fraternity, founded in 1614.