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Around the year 1400 there was already a chapel in Enter, which was dedicated to Saint Anthony Abbot. The chapel was destroyed during the Eighty Years' War and was not rebuilt. The Catholics made use of clandestine churches, until the end of the 18th century, when Catholic worship was permitted again. In 1819 a new church was built on the Dorpsstraat in Enter. This was a water board church, which was enlarged in 1851, but in the years 1910-1920 the building was too small again. Demolished in 1927 for new construction .

Neo-Romanesque church with tower. The Roman Catholic church of St. Anthony of Padua (1912, J. Margry) has been restored. An important part of that restoration were the statues of the eight saints who closely observe the Sunday churchgoers.

Beautiful small neo-Gothic church with a smaller, than originally designed, tower. Built to replace an earlier Roman Catholic church from 1835, which was demolished in 1891. In terms of the village image on site, an extremely interesting, and unique, ensemble of this church (tower) with the nearby situated, higher, certainly also interesting and beautiful, water tower (ao. 1896; architect N. Biezeveld). In the center of Barendrecht there is a similar ensemble: Historic Village Church with tower near the higher water tower.

Roman Catholic Church St. Anthony of Padua, 1843 by TF Suys, high neoclassical pilaster facade. Two-manual electro-pneumatic organ made in 1913 by the Adema company, modified in 1952 and in 1989. In the last modification, the console was placed in the middle of the organ.

Late, large neo-Gothic church with a large tower placed on the side. Nicknamed "Cathedral of the Low". This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Iconic modern church with high tower, height approx. 60 m. Built to replace the neo-Gothic predecessor destroyed in the Second World War . Hall church with free-standing openwork concrete bell tower. Important (still existing) work from the oeuvre of JJ Fanchamps (1912-1982). Modern glazing by W. Peeters from the year 2000. Stations of the Cross from the former church of Our Lady of the Carmel Mountain in Schaesberg-Leenhof.

The history of the current St. Antonius Church in Kortenhoef begins on March 28, 1879, the date of the letter in which the Archbishop of Utrecht, Mgr. Schaepman, authorized the church board to tender the construction of a new church and parsonage. The church had to be built according to the drawing and specifications that architect Alfred Tepe in Utrecht had presented to the Archbishop. The church had to replace a barn church from 1810 (formerly a coach house). It became a neo-Gothic hall church with a tower, which would be provided with diagonal buttresses and four niches in each facade surface of the bell floor.

Replaces the church from 1935 that was destroyed during the war. Like the pre-war church, the current church is built in traditionalist forms, influenced by Romanesque and early Christian architecture. Tower from 1954.

The neo-Romanesque St. Antonius Church, as we know it today, was built in 1873-1875 as a replacement for the former barn church. The church was consecrated on 12 September 1875. At the end of the Second World War, the 63 m tower was blown up by the Germans, a large part of the church was destroyed. The church was then rebuilt in 1948 in neo-Romanesque style, without a tower. In the church there is a model of the church in all its glory, with the tower as it was the landmark of Lepelstraat until October 1944.

Roman Catholic parish church of St. Anthony of Padua, located in the south of Ede.