(Zarken 2) [1] is a three-aisled hall church with three-sided closed middle choir, roof rider and a heavy tower of two sections with balustrade and narrowed spire. At the site of the current nave and the south aisle, a first, two-aisled church was founded in the early 15th century.
Around 1450 the three-aisled late gothic choir was completed with a north portal and a sacristy on the south side (demolished 1867, reconstructed 1969). The northern side aisle with the (western) north portal followed around 1500. Between 1520 and 1550 arose the late Gothic tower with layers of Gobertangesteen and sandstone details (meant for images). The two bays between tower and ship were completed later, first at the north aisle, then at the nave and in 1644 at the south aisle. In 1640 the tower corridors were given sandstone balustrades and the spire was renewed. The tower, which was restored in 1944-49 and in 1998, contains a clock (1641) cast by Everardus Splinter. During the restoration of the church in 1959-'60 the window traces and roof rider were reconstructed.
The interior is covered by wooden barrel vaults with draw beams on natural stone columns with cabbage leaf capitals and on the west side on plastered brick columns with imitation joints. The inventory includes an eight-sided gothic baptismal font (15th century), a wooden choir fence with early Renaissance forms (1562-'63) and a pulpit (from 1695, soundboard crowning at the end of the 18th century) from Winschoten. There are also a doophek (1655), two brass desks, a copper baptismal arch, a nine copper crowns and various men's and pews (everything in the mid-17th century). Built with some older pipe work
J.M. Gerstenhauer the organ (1780). The church contains a grave floor, with an altar stone at the south entrance. For the founder of the Maatschappij tot Nut van 't Algemeen, Rev. Jan Nieuwenhuizen († 1806), there is an epitaph (design J. Kuyper, executed by C. and J. F. Sigault).
The presbytery (Zarken 6) is a deep building from 1623 with a stepped gable with a swivel top with an obelisk. The bottom door is 18th century. In 1755, the transverse neighborhood building was added. Between the two north portals a sexton's house (Zarken 2) arose in 1626 with truncated spout façades and mannerist details.
