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The Waalse kerk (Walloon Church, also called Franch church) is a Baroque temple dating from the 18th century. It was built to serve as a place of worship for the French-speaking Protestants after the conquest of Maastricht by Frederick Henry Prince of Orange and Count of Nassau.

Dutch Reformed Church, so-called Walloon Church. Single-nave chapel of the Dominican Sisters, consecrated in 1530, robbed of choir in 1839. In the church pulpit circa 1630 and organ with main work and upper work, made in 1740 by M. Schwartsburg. In 1854 extensively renovated by L. van Dam and Sons, on richly carved balustrade with coats of arms of Marie Louise van Hessen-Kassel and JW Friso 1742. In roof turret above the facade on the Grote Kerkstraat, clock by J. Balthasar, 1661, diam. 60.5 cm

The church replaces the old seventeenth-century Walloon church at the northwest end of the Hoogstraat, from which the virtually original Bätz-Witte organ from around 1865 was taken over. The new Walloon church was originally situated on a remnant of the original western city wall, which was filled in during the Second World War. The interior is equipped with wrought iron/bronze light fixtures, ceiling lamps, hymn boards and electric heaters designed by WH Gispen.

Walloon Church with consistory and sexton's house. Originally the chapel of St. Catherine's Hospital, in use for the Reformed church since 1600. Since 1635 in shared use by the Walloon Reformed, whose main church was the Church of Our Lady since 1584. Their property since 1820, with the abandonment of the Church of Our Lady, which had to be demolished. Consistory and sexton's house with brickwork in front of the original facade from 1635, restored in 1951.

Church built in 1841.

The synagogue is located behind the private residences of the Wagenstraat. It was consecrated in the year 1844. It replaced an older synagogue which was situated at the Voldersgracht (dated ca. 1721/23). The Neo-Classical main façade includes a cornice and triangular pediment with a tondo window. The entrance itself is also adorned with a triangular pediment is supported by Tuscan columns. Rounded arched windows can be found in the side walls of the building. The entrance originally contained an unknown Hebrew inscription and the date 5604 (1844 CE) but these were removed in the year 1981. The synagogue was oriented along the short axis which meant that the Torah ark was situated against the long southeastern wall. The bimah was placed at the center of the assembly hall, facing the Torah ark. The building, including the galleries which are supported by slender Ionic columns, were expanded in 1922. The complex was expanded with the establishment of an administrative building and a second synagogue along the Nieuwe Molstraat (demolished in 1981), designed by the architect H. Elte Phzn in the architectural style of the Amsterdam School. The interior of the synagogue was damaged by fire during the Second World War in 1944. Three years later, the building was again consecrated as a synagogue after which the Jewish religious services resumed. In 1976, the building became abandoned and was subsequently sold to the municipality of The Hague. The decorated Torah ark (ca. 1723) was removed and relocated to Israel in the same year. The building was repurposed as a mosque which opened its doors in the year 1979. The front façade of the building received Arabic inscriptions and two large steel minarets were placed in the forecourt of the building.

The village church stands in the middle of a graveyard on a high sand ridge that resembles a mound. The original church and tower date from the early 13th century.

The Waldensian Evangelical Church of Trevi is a project of Benedetto Andolfi, built in 1883-84. The construction was carried out under the impetus of the Waldensian community recently settled in Rome. The exterior is in neo-Romanesque style and the main entrance of the building consists of a large semicircular arch with a wall almost entirely mosaic of phytomorphic elements, in the centre of which is the portal with a semicircular lunette and a rose window with a marble frame with arches.

The Waldensian church in Florence was built between 1892 and 1904 by the Scottish architect George Frederick Bodley. It was then a reconstruction of the first Anglican church in Florence, dating back to the 1840s. In 1966, the church was purchased by the Waldensian church which previously met at the temple in via dei Serragli, inside the Ricasoli-Salviati palace. Because of its Anglican origins, the Waldensian church has an English neo-Gothic style.

The Waldensian temple in Piazza Cavour was built between 1911 and 1913 and houses the headquarters of the Waldensian theological faculty. The construction of this second Waldensian temple in Rome (the first being the Waldensian Temple of Trevi) was made possible by the American widower John Stewart Kennedy, who in 1910 bought land on behalf of the Waldensian Evangelical Church. The church is the work of engineer Emanuele Rutelli and architect Paolo Bonci and is an eclectic mix of decorative elements from neo-Romanesque and Art Nouveau architecture.