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Originally built as Dutch Reformed Laak Chapel. Name changed to Andreas Church during internal modernisation in 1966. Since 2000 called Laak Chapel again, when the Reformed Church joined the Dutch Reformed local church community in the context of "Samen op Weg", after the Reformed Laak Church on Isingstraat was decommissioned. Later a church of the PKN. Out of use as a church 25 November 2012, on that day a farewell service was held. Some religious objects were transferred to the diaconal centre "De Oase" on Van Meursstraat in the Spoorwijk. The Laak Chapel was taken over by the El Mouahidin Foundation and converted into a mosque.

Late Gothic, single-aisled building with a slightly narrower choir and a wooden tower on the west facade. The choir with stone vaulting is the oldest part. The church has a particularly richly carved pulpit from around 1700. Bell tower with the sound of two bells, one of which is by C. Noorden and JA de Grave, 1715, diam. 80 cm. and a modern clock. Mechanical tower clock B. Eijsbouts, Asten, 1925, later fitted with electric winding.

In Teuge, the Christian Reformed Church was abolished. Institution took place in 1836. Between 1836 and 1851, church services were held in Het Hoge Vonder, the farm of G. Groothedde. This farm no longer exists. On 2 June 1851, construction of a real church of its own began. It was put into use in December 1851. Like several other municipalities in our country, Teuge did not join the Association in 1892. It remained Christian Reformed. The last church service was held on 25 April 1968, after which the municipality was dissolved. All possessions were sold.

Important early reconstruction church with tower and side rooms, built as the first post-war church in Rotterdam, with many interesting details. Built as an Evangelical Lutheran Church, to replace the church in the city centre that was destroyed by war in 1940. Now also primarily in use as an Evangelical Lutheran Church. Built to replace the Evangelical Lutheran church in the city centre that was destroyed by the bombing of 1940. One of the first newly built churches in Rotterdam after the Second World War. Traditionalist single-nave hall church from 1948 with three-sided closed over-bricked apse, unarticulated saddle roof tower, built to a design by B. van der Lecq. Strongly influenced by indigenous and North German Romanesque architecture. Internal detailing in clean brickwork. Visible laminated pointed arch points in the nave. Pew plan, pulpit, altar table and stone baptismal font designed by architect Van der Lecq, abstract stained glass windows and murals in the outbuildings by G. van Iersel. Tower top relief with pelican motif by sculptor Gerard Hoppen (1885-1959).

Modern church with tower.

On top of the characteristic circular village vault is the originally late Roman Andreas church. The current building was rebuilt in 1676 after the old church was largely destroyed by fire a few years earlier.

The current church is the remnant of an originally late Romanesque building. Traces of the southern crossarm can still be found in the outer façade. In the north wall are bricked-up lists of Romanesque windows. The interior has beautiful wall and vault paintings from the 13th and 15th centuries: the Fall, John the Baptist and St. Lawrence.

The Andreaskirche is a monastery church in Düsseldorf, used since 1972 by the Dominicans. The church, built in the 17th century is a listed building.

Major renovation in 1962.

The Cathedral of Andria was built by Goffredo d'Altavilla, Lord of Andria, between the end of the 11th century and the beginning of the 12th century on an earlier church, dedicated to St. Peter, dating from before the year 1000 and which today corresponds to the building's crypt. The Cathedral underwent major modifications in the 17th and 18th centuries and then in the 19th century with the construction of the façade and the external portico.