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Reconstruction church without tower. Out of use as Reformed church in 2000.

Over a hundred years ago, Evangelisation started as a “church on the threshing floor”. This evangelisation, which has always been small, has held out all those years. Many church communities have ceased to exist over the years because they were no longer viable. The NH evangelisation Leggeloo/Eemster still exists. The chapel was nicknamed the “clog church”. This came from the clogs that were placed in the clog rack in front of the church, since there was no vestibule yet. In 1953, the chapel was enlarged with a vestibule and thirty years later a consistory and meeting room were built behind the church. The Reformed chapel, the smallest church in Drenthe, is still in use.

Church hall without tower.

On the border with Drenthe (Havelterberg). The neighborhood association has an agreement with the Protestant Community of Steenwijk that the church building is used free of charge every Sunday morning for church services that fall under its authority.

On 11 December 1913, 'De Gereformeerde Kerk te Nieuwlande' was instituted. On 8 June 1914, the first stone was laid and in August of that year 'Eben Haëzer' was put into use. The well-known reformed resistance fighter Johannes Post hid people in hiding in this church during the Second World War. The hiding place can still be seen. The Stichting Het Drentse Landschap will investigate whether the church can be preserved in some way. Nieuwlande played a special role in the war and received a Yad Vashem award for it. Of course, Nieuwlande wants to keep that past alive. 'The new destination for the reformed church in the village can play an important role in this'. It is not without reason that the church is located on the Johannes Poststraat.

In 1983, the association building of the Dutch Reformed Church in Ouddorp was first built at this location. From 1989 to 2010, church services were also held in the building. The building was owned by the Eben Haëzer Foundation until 2013, after which it was transferred to the Reformed Church. In 2012 and 2013 a completely new Reformed Church with 1,071 seats was built at the association building. This building is called 'Eben-Haëzerkerk' .

Reformed Church. One of the oldest houses of worship built for the Reformed Church, around 1840, consisting of a simple hall church with round-arched windows and an entrance door in a simple classicist frame, next to which is a parsonage with a storey and windows with six- and eight-pane sliding windows. The church and parsonage are covered by an elongated pantile hipped roof.

Modern church with tower. Replaced an earlier church building at the same address.

Former Roman Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception from 1923, which was decommissioned in 1965.

Nice hall church with roof turret. Demolished for new construction in 2001.