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Brick church from the 14th century. The tower was originally separate from the church and is somewhat older. The church has a Romanesque Bentheimer stone baptismal font. Under the choir lie several mummies. Enlarged in 1849, choir built in 1915.

The Martinuskerk in Markelo , is a Protestant church built in 1840 after the demolition of the older church.

The church, built in 1658, is made of yellow IJssel brick and dated 1658 in the red brick facade. The two-pointed stars above it, also in red brick, refer to the coat of arms of Gouderak. On the west side, the masonry projects at the location of the tower. The roof turret has a wooden superstructure covered with slates and is crowned by a spire. The church was renovated in 1851. In front of the entrance is a portal from 1954 in an adapted style. The church has pointed arch windows on a dripstone. Between the windows are once cut buttresses with sloping covering. The interior of the church has a wooden barrel vault with wooden tie beams on corbel frames from 1851. They have profiled key pieces of a 17th-century type.

Freestanding brick church on a street corner, dating in its main form from 1644, with an entrance gate under a hipped roof and on the gateposts sandstone miniature castles, an entrance portal and a square bell tower on the ridge of the church. The consistory against the east facade dates according to the year in the first laid stone from 1928. To the southeast of the church lies a small cemetery.

Dutch Reformed Church. Three-aisled church, consisting of a nave, the central nave dating from the 13th century and the side aisles from the 15th century. The choir dates from the beginning of the 15th century, the tower with saddle roof from the beginning of the 16th century. The church was restored in 1932-33 and was treated internally as beautiful masonry in accordance with the prevailing views at the time. The central nave now has a brick barrel vault from the 17th century. Originally there were probably dome vaults here. Furniture from the 18th century, pulpit from 1717.

Dutch Reformed Church. Late Gothic village church with single-aisled nave and deep, three-sided closed choir. Heavy brick tower on the west side, decorated by series of narrow, blind niches and crowned by an eight-sided, constricted spire.

Dutch Reformed Church in Reeuwijk (Dorp) from 1871. Replaced an older church. Simple hall church with built-in front tower in sober eclectic forms.

The Dorpskek in Akersloot was originally erected in the 13th century on the foundations of a Romanesque church. The current building is the reconstruction of 1837 as the previous building had to be demolished due to its deterioration.

In the church under the organ gallery hangs the certificate of the union of the Reformed Church and the Reformed Church, September 17, 1997, when the Samen op Weg community Via Pacis - the way of peace - in Beetsterzwaag was called Olterterp. Now the Protestant community Via Pacis. This church is still regularly used for evening services and special services. The community holds the morning services in De Ontmoetingskerk (the former Reformed Church).

Dutch Reformed Church, 1657. Simple hall building. Tower with wooden crowning, 1839. Organ with main work and upper work, made in 1845 by the brothers HB and GW Lohman. Restored in 1980 by Flentrop Orgelbouw and extended with a free Pedal. Bell frame with clock by C. and J. Seest, 1783, diam. 70.5 cm. A wooden south pointer is placed on the south wall of the church.