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The Rabbi Moshe Heshel's Kloyz in Zin'kiv is a Hasidic synagogue from the 19th century. This Historicist brick building now serves as a dwelling.

Rabbi Pinhas Heshel's Kloyz in Zin'kiv is a Hasidic synagogue built at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. This brick building now serves as a dwelling.

The Rača monastery dates back to the 13th century. According to tradition, the monastery of Rača was built around 1275 by the Serbian king Stefan Dragutin (1276-1316). The monastery probably suffered during the fall of the Serbian Despotate in 1459, then immediately after the great migrations of Serbs into the Habsburg territories in 1690 and for the last time after the collapse of the first Serbian uprising in 1813. The monastery was restored between 1795 and 1799, and between 1816 and 1835.

The Evangelical Lutheran Chapel in Rachelshausen is a listed half-timbered church. The two-storey baroque church with an octagonal ridge turret was probably built in 1626/1627.

Råde Church is a medieval stone church with a rectangular nave and a lower, narrower choir with an apse, which is the semicircular end of the choir. Around 1730, a burial chapel was built for the Lützow family on the north side of the choir. In front of the west entrance is a bell tower with a porch at the base of the tower. The church was extensively repaired in 1860-62.

This temple was opened in March 2000. As can be seen in the pictures, the construction proceeded in several phases. Each time enough money was saved, the next part was realized. On October 20, 2015, the temporary spires were replaced by other spires made in Indian style. In June 2017, a dome was placed on the temple above the statues of the main deities. It is a beautiful simple temple with a hundred seats built in the style of the Hindu Sanatan Dharm temples in Suriname.

Radom Cathedral is a neo-gothic church built from 1894 to 1911 according to the design of Józef Pius Dziekoński. The style of the church is inspired by French Gothic but also by national examples such as the Church of St. Mary in Kraków (one of the towers was copied for both towers). In 1981, it was erected as the Cathedral of the Diocese of Sandomierz- Radom, and in 1992 as the Cathedral of the Diocese of Radom.

It is not known precisely when the cemetery was founded. The earliest preserved tombstone dates from 1901. The ohel over the Twerski burials was built in the early 21st century. The fence was renovated in 2019.

The monastery of Radu Voda seems to have been built for the first time in the 16th century. But having been damaged by fires (1595) and earthquakes (1829, 1838), the monastery was completely redesigned until the 19th century.

The Rafsbotn Chapel is a wooden chapel dating from 1989. The first chapel in Rafsbotn was built around 1920, but it was burnt down by the Germans in 1944. A second chapel was completed in 1949, it was replaced by the present chapel in 1988 when the parish of Alta took over the ownership of the chapel.