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Single-nave church with a bell tower on the church roof. The church was founded around 1300 and expanded in the 15th and 16th centuries. The remaining lower part of the original tower is part of the church space. In the 19th century, the late Gothic choir closure was replaced by a straight wall, so that two bays of the choir remain. Wooden barrel vaults; in the choir wall posts with ornament in early Renaissance forms. Inventory: pulpit from the second quarter of the 17th century, a lord's pew with arch panels, 17th century and a lord's pew in Louis XV style; three painted text boards, 17th century and tombstones from the 16th and 17th centuries, silver baptismal font (1806) and two communion cups dating from 1741 (Jacob Visbach).

The church stands on the site of a medieval church that was probably built around 1300. The spire is made of wood. Under the wooden floor are four gravestones of the pastors from the time before the reformation.

The Dutch Reformed Church of Boornbergum was built in 1734. The church was built on the foundations of a predecessor made of tuff stone, the bell tower with saddle roof of which had partially collapsed on 5 December 1733. The current church building is of the hall church type. Its interior includes several centuries-old gravestones, a 17th-century pulpit, a copper baptismal bowl made in 1614 and an organ built in 1925 by the Leeuwarden firm Bakker en Timmenga.

Dutch Reformed Church. Single-nave late Gothic building, consisting of a nave (16th century) and a narrower 15th century choir. In the west facade above the entrance a pointed arch niche with traceries; above this facade a wooden tower. Pulpit 1709; copper baptismal arch 17th century; Ten Commandments board 1642; three copper crowns; two silver communion cups 1655. Bell frame with bell by Geert van Wou, from 1504.

Reformed Church. Still entirely Romanesque brick church with four-sided choir closure, the masonry of which is provided with lesenes, round arch frieze and a dentil moulding. Few built-in somewhat older also brick saddle roof tower. The east wall of the tower may originally have belonged to a mid-12th century westwork. The current appearance of the tower and nave dates back to the end of the 12th century. In the 13th century the choir was built. The pointed arch windows were installed in the 16th century. Internally a barrel vault from 1604. The nave has a wainscoting of purple (flamed) tiles; rococo pulpit with rear bulkhead and hood, mid-18th century with carvings on the tub, baptismal fence with candle holder, lord's pew with carved back piece from 1775; two 17th century and three 18th century gravestones inside, in the churchyard five 18th century and one from 1618. Bell frame with the sound of two bells, one by Gert, 1477, diam. 110 cm. and one by P. Overney, 1686, diam. 109 cm. Mechanical tower clock B. Eijsbouts, Asten, 1916, no. 559, later fitted with a synchronous motor.

Historic church with tower. Originally dedicated to St. Barbara.

Originally a reformed evangelism, founded in 1912.

In 1448 a chapel was built on this site. In 1850 it was expanded with a side aisle on the south side. This side aisle was demolished again in 1970-1973, during the restoration. As a result, the church regained its original form. For the construction of the chapel at that time, a certain Jacob Muerling, who had many possessions in Oldemarkt, made a considerable effort by donating lands to the church. The parish church was at that time in Paaslo. In 1489, the parish church was transferred to Oldemarkt. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Simple, in 1641 on the site of an older predecessor, built of brick CHURCH BUILDING, on a rectangular foundation. The tower, built in two sections, under an equally constricted slate-covered tent roof and with a sober entrance, located within a pointed arched recessed panel with a round window under a Tudor-style arch; sound holes within pointed arched recessed panels; rod anchors. The straight-closed nave, covered by a hipped roof covered with tiles, supported by buttresses with tiled offsets and provided with Tudor-style pointed arch windows in the rear and side facades; door and several small windows. The following interior elements are of interest internally: three 17th century copper crowns and a late 17th century (17th century) copper lectern. Church building with some interior elements of interest because of their architectural and art historical value.

This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.