The Burkhan Bakshin Altan Sume is the largest Buddhist temple in the Kalmykia Republic. It was opened in 2005, on the anniversary of the deportation of the Kalmyks to Siberia and the Far East in 1943. The building consists of 7 levels. The first level contains a library, a museum and a conference room. On the second level, there is a prayer room (Dugan) with a statue of Gautama Buddha.
Geden Sheddup Monastery is a monastery of Tibetan Buddhism which opened in 1996. It is the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery to be built in the area since it became an autonomous oblast in 1920. The monastery is also the first place of Buddhist worship in the Kalmykia Republic since Joseph Stalin ordered the destruction of all Buddhist temples and monasteries during the 1930s.
The Cathedral Mosque in Luhansk was built between 2007 and 2010. The mosque was built according to the design of one of the existing mosques in Crimea. It is a three-storey building with a total area of 550 square metres. The construction of the mosque was sponsored by Kuwait. The construction and completion work was undertaken by the local Muslim community.
The Mariupol Mosque was built in 2007 in honour of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent and his wife Roxelana, who came from what is now Ukraine. It is both a mosque and an Islamic cultural centre. The prototype of the mosque's architecture is the Süleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul.
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