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Nice small church with roof turret situated on a hill. Year of construction: 1933; Architectural style: Delft School; Architect: G. Feenstra (1890-1985) .

Extremely important modern church from 1960, designed by HC van de Leur. Round church hall with large windows on the south side. The roof is supported by concrete trusses that are centered in a skylight above the place of the celebration altar. On the east and north side of the round church hall is a lower extension, with open contact to the church hall: Intended to allow the faithful to take a seat in the light part of the church (at the front) but also to be able to offer sufficient seating when it is very busy. Entrance on the east side, with a day chapel and baptismal font. The baptismal font has its own skylight. Rectory in the same style by the same architect. Freestanding tower on the southwest side of the church, with a bell.

The Roman Catholic Church "Maria Geboorte" in Dronrijp was built in 1839, designed by architect A. van der Moer in the Water Board style; the contractor was PJ de Wal from Leeuwarden.

Sober interbellum church with tower with (copper) green spire. Built as Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Nativity. With preservation of high older tower from 1856-1857, architect Th. Molkenboer. Extension of nave 1874-'75, architect EJ Margry. After partial collapse rebuilt in 1932 by JA and L. van der Laan. The older tower was sheathed and raised to its current situation.

Our Lady of the Nativity, consecrated 1860, Th. Molkenboer. Neo-Gothic pseudo-basilica with narrower choir and tower, consisting of two square and one octagonal section with spire. The interior, now white-plastered again, has slender sectioned pillars without capitals and stuccoed wooden cross-ribbed vaults. Late work by Molkenboer, based on the Lower Rhine late Gothic. Originally a two-manual organ, made in 1874 by L. Ypma. Mechanical tower clock by J. van de Kerkhof.

After the Reformation, Catholicism still had many followers in West Friesland. Catholicism also appeared to be very much alive in the new Zijpe polder, which was drained in 1597, although Protestantism was the official religion. The Catholics went to church in a clandestine church on the Ruigeweg, not far from the small village of Burgerbrug. In 1863, this church building burned down and it was decided to build a new, "real" church on the Grote Sloot.

Single-nave neo-Gothic church without transept, but with tower. Many of such early neo-Gothic churches have disappeared in the meantime. That is also why the preservation of this church building is of great importance.

Interesting modern church with tower, built to replace an earlier temporary "hidden church".

Damaged by war 1944, restored. Tower destroyed by war, rebuilt 1954.

Historic village church with tower. Tower 1455. Destroyed by war in 1944, rebuilt in 1951. (During this restoration the St. Anna chapel served as an emergency parish church).