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Ratkovo was home to a Jewish community since 1759, with the cemetery established in 1776. It remained in use until the Holocaust. When ESJF surveyors visited the site, they found it was in poor condition, unfenced and occasionally maintained by volunteers from the town.

The Rättvik Church lies close to the water, at the edge of Rättvik.

The Raufoss church replaced a small burial chapel from 1898. The church is a long church built of plastered brick. The church is characterized by neo-Romanesque forms.

The Rauland church is a cross church from 1803. The church was built by Halvor Høgkasin from Hjartdal. In 1953 the church was restored and decorated by the painter Kr. Kildal. The church has two old crucifixes from the 13th and 14th centuries.

Raundalen church is a long church from 1921, designed by Haldor Larsen Børve. It has elements of Stave church style. The Raundalen cemetery was opened in 1905. The bell tower next to the church is probably from the same period and therefore older than the church.

The Cathedral of Ravenna was built in the Baroque style between 1734 and 1745 on a cathedral, the Basilica Ursiana, dating from the early 5th century. This ancient cathedral was built following the transfer of the capital of the Western Roman Empire from Milan to Ravenna by Emperor Honorius in 402.

The Rav Aron Schuster Synagogue or the Obrechtsjoel is the largest still functioning Ashkenazi synagogue (sjoel) in Amsterdam. The synagogue is located on the corner of the Jacob Obrechtplein and the Heinzestraat in Amsterdam-Zuid.

Read between the lines church was designed by Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh in 2011. This open-air church is entirely made of steel.

The Royal Basilica of Nuestra Señora de Atocha was first mentioned in the 7th century. It was not until the 16th century, when the hermitage was in a state of ruin, that Friar Juan Hurtado de Mendoza, confessor to Charles V, decided to reform it and transform it into a large church. Philip IV (1621-1665), a great devotee of the Virgin, proclaimed Our Lady of Atocha patroness of the royal family and the Spanish monarchy in 1643. During his reign, on 14 August 1652, the original church burned down and he ordered it to be completely restored. His successor Charles II commissioned Lucas Jordán to decorate the interior with paintings. During the Civil War, the convent and the church were burnt down, losing all the works of art, except for the image of the Virgin of Atocha, which had been hidden before. At Christmas 1951, the new church was inaugurated.

Located next to the old Puerta de Somajas, currently called Puerta de Zaragoza, the current Royal Basilica-Collegiate Church of the Holy Sepulcher was completed in 1613 by the architect Gaspar de Villaverde, who erected a proto-baroque temple of Herrerian tradition on the previous one of Mudejar style, of the that some remains are still preserved.