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Three-aisled neoclassical pseudo-basilica with tower with Romanesque superstructure, built in 1848-1849 by J. Dumoulin to replace a medieval church. Internally plastered barrel vaults. The most important inventory item is the statue group from around 1525 of Anna te Drieën by an unknown sculptor, named the Master of Elsloo after this group. Furthermore, some other 16th century statues, a pulpit from around 1800, originating from the St. Servaas in Maastricht, and two baroque side altars. Organ by Pereboom & Leyser from 1874. During the war, on 17 September 1944, the tower and roof were badly damaged by grenade fire. German soldiers were stationed there who used the tower as a lookout post against the English, who were rapidly approaching from Belgium. Tower damaged 1944, restored.

The church was damaged by war in 1943. It was restored after the war. Both in terms of exterior and interior, it is a sober interbellum church, without a tower. It is a relatively short, wide single-nave church. To the left of the choir is a stone bell tower with a clock. From the end of the 2000s, until further notice, this was the central church building of the Roman Catholic parish of Amsterdam-Noord.

The parish of St. Augustine was founded in 1862 to provide the village centres of Lutterade and Krawinkel with church life. The parish church was built exactly in the middle between the two residential areas, surrounded by the cemetery. However, the church had to make way for the advancing industry of the mines. Only the cemetery remains, which is still located on the Groenseijkerstraat to this day. In 1935, the new parish church was completed on the Prins de Lignestraat. The national monument is popularly known as the 'two-tower church'. The parish of St. Augustine has been working together with other parishes in Geleen for quite some time. Around 2000, part of the former parish of the H.Hart (Paterskerk) was transferred to the Augustinus. In the years that followed, various partnerships were set up. As a result, an intensive exchange has already grown in the pastoral fields. As a true central church, the Augustinus unites many social lines and has become a church building that has something to offer to many believers due to its size and possibilities. The church is also open every afternoon between 14:00 and 16:00.

The church was built in 1934-1935 to a design by Jan van Hardeveld and Herman van der Bijl. Mari Andriessen made the sculptures on the front and in the church.

Modest modern church without a real tower, but with a large cross.

This church was built in 1924 next to the dilapidated previous church from the 16th century. On 15 November 1944 the church was blown up by the retreating Germans. Only the concrete trusses survived the explosion. A few years later a new and larger church was put into use.

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Barbara, protected because of a bell, dedicated to St. Elisabeth, cast by Jan Tolhuis in 1555 and originating from the former St. Janskerk and the organ with two manuals and pedal made in 1861 by CGF Witte from Utrecht, moved to the current church building in 1886. The organ was restored in 1971 by the Verschueren company from Heythuysen. During that restoration, the organ was expanded with a free pedal that is of no value from the point of view of monument conservation. During a subsequent restoration in 1992 by the Steendam company from Roodeschool, the pedal from 1971 was removed again.

The church was restored in the years 2002-2005. A new organ was installed in the Roman Catholic Titus Brandsma Church in Oss, originating from a Protestant church. The old organ from 1968 was sold to the church of Dreumel.

Important church in the style of the Delft School with a massive bell tower. The tower has a special design, as it has a semicircular extension against the south facade. This gives the tower an unexpectedly expressive character. It is correct, as the monument register states, that this extension serves the staircase that leads to the flat on the tower. But the remarkable design of the tower undoubtedly also has a symbolic background. It probably refers to the role that the tower plays in the martyrdom of Saint Barbara. Her pagan father, Dioscurus, locked Barbara in a tower to protect her from the many young men who sought her hand. The St. Barbara is virtually the only church by architect AJN Boosten above the major rivers (another was the (demolished) H. Sacrament in Arnhem). The interior of the St. Barbara Church contains an important series of stained glass windows.

The Sint Barbarakerk is a catholic emergency church from 1950 that was never replaced in a later period. The church is decorated with beautiful wood carvings and sculptures, made by emeritus pastor and sculptor Omer Gielliet. The statues of this artist can be found in many places in the Netherlands and Belgium. In and around the church, in the Europastraat, many of his statues stand and hang, including a crucifix made from a 10,000 year old tree trunk. On the facade of the church hang portraits of celebrities such as Pope John XXIII, Bishop Bekkers, Nelson Mandela, Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Along the path to the church are six sculptures and to the right of the path are the twelve apostles.