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Simple church hall without tower. Built as Dutch Reformed Church. This is now, together with the Ontmoetingskerk in Maartensdijk, a church building of the Protestant Community of Maartensdijk - Hollandsche Rading.

Seventh-day Adventists.

Characteristic (Christian) Reformed church building, without tower. Temporarily also in shared use as Dutch Reformed Church.

In 1966, the land on which this church stands was purchased for 100,000 guilders by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The church was put into use on 1 November 1967. On 26 October 1967, the newspaper Trouw paid attention to the upcoming opening under the title "New church in Hilversum": "the beautiful church building contains a large church hall with tasteful decoration, equipped with a black tiled baptistery for baptism by immersion, changing rooms, and a consistory room, as well as a youth centre, a meeting room and a games and games room." The pews have been replaced by chairs and the pulpit has been demolished.

Evangelical Lutheran CHURCH. Characteristic building (19th century) on an approximately square plan, covered by three parallel hipped roofs behind the higher front facade, which has a central section with a pediment and plastered side wings with entrances. The round-arched windows and doors give the building a somewhat neo-Romanesque character. On the roof a domed tower. The church has a late 18th century pulpit, originating from the Mennonite church of Deventer. Domed tower with clock by Petit and Fritsen?, 1880?, diam. 66 cm.

The Christus Koningkerk in the Mariahoeve district formed one parish with the Mariakerk (Immaculate Heart of Mary) in the Marlot district. The church was withdrawn from worship in 2003 and was sold. The closing celebration took place on 1-11-2003.

Modern church in pyramid shape, with a small bell tower to the right of the entrance, containing one bell. Built as a church building for the Seventh-day Adventists of Friesland, where the celebrations of this denomination take place on Saturdays. On Sundays also in use for celebrations of the Church of God. From 1981 also in use by the Reformed Church until 2003, when they moved to their own church building.

New Dutch Reformed Church in the post-war district of Morgenstond. Hall church, covered by a concrete shell roof, with ancillary rooms and a free-standing, open-worked concrete bell tower at the front. Designed by KL Sijmons Dzn. in a functionalist style, this was, in liturgical terms, a breakthrough in Protestant church construction just after the Second World War. The communion room could be connected to the church hall by means of a sliding wall or not. As such, Sijmons created a design that opened the way to multiple use. Stylistically, the design is somewhat influenced by the work of Le Corbusier due to the sculpturally designed bell tower.

The Adventkerk is a Dutch Reformed Church built in 1958 and designed by architect Sijmons, KL Dzn. It is an example of religious Brutalist architecture. It is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Interesting, beautifully detached, modern church. Important and fairly well preserved example of Protestant church building from the reconstruction period. Also an example of a so-called storey church.