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The Panagia Afentrica Church is located in the Afentrika complex, where several churches stand close together. It is located about 8 km northeast of Rizokarpaso. According to Kassinis, the church was built between the 6th and 10th centuries over an older church. The church is now a monument and is in a semi-ruined state. Conservation work was completed in 2022.

The Panagia Church is located in the south-eastern corner of the Greek Orthodox cemetery, which is situated a little to the west of the village centre. The building was constructed in 1948. On the day of the survey, the church was locked. The external condition is to be assessed as fair.

The Panagia Eleousa Church is located a good 4km outside the village to the west, in a forest and bush area. The church was built in the 15th-16th century. Both the interior and exterior condition can be described as fair.

The Rjukan church, which was built in connection with Norsk Hydro's industrial establishment in the Vestfjord valley, has ashlar facades. It was built in 1914-15 according to the plans of the architects Berner & Berner, and is characterised by the neo-Romanesque and neo-Baroque forms of the time. The church burned down in 1965 during the filming of the British film "The Heroes of Telemark", but was subsequently renovated and reopened in 1968. Asbjørn Stein was the architect of the restoration.

The fortification in Roadeş consists of the former aisle-less hall church with polygonal chancel and bell tower built in the 14th century. The church was fortified in the 15th century and the tower was surrounded by a massive wall, which enclosed the former open entrance atrium. The chancel and the nave were provided with defence levels on buttresses and loopholes. Sideways a two-level sacristy was built and the tower was heightened by five levels and a defensive platform. Most of the defensive systems of the chancel, nave and the tower were demolished in the 19th century. The church was surrounded by a curtain wall with outer bailey and five defensive towers. Only three of them still stand today. The interior features a late Gothic chancel vault, a partially two-level gallery painted with images of the Roadeş church in its Baroque phase, before the demolition of its defence levels, as well as the 1838 organ. The valuable winged altar from 1533 has been moved to the Saint John’s Church in Sibiu. In February, 2016 it came to a partial collapse of the tower.

The Roan church, also known as the "cathedral of Fosen", was built in brick in 1702. The architect of the church was Morten Jørgensen Bjørnør.

Beautifully set in a valley landscaped by ‘Capability' Brown in the 18th century, the most striking feature of this Cistercian abbey is the eastern end of its church, built in the new Gothic style c1170. It has one of the most complete ground plans of any English Cistercian monastery, laid out as excavated foundations.

Notre-Dame-de-Saint-Rémy de Rochefort Abbey, generally known as Rochefort Abbey, is a Trappist abbey founded in 1230, secularized in 1792 during the French Revolution, the abbey was returned to a monastic community in Achel Abbey in 1887. The abbey is known for its brewery, in operation since 1889, and its Trappist beers.

The Rochus Chapel was built in 1592-93 by the town's master builder, Jerg Loßher, and dedicated to St. Rochus. The interior of the chapel consists of a lightly vaulted wooden ceiling with 66 painted panels dating from 1598.

The Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo is a complex of small medieval rock churches, chapels and cells, carved at different heights in the cliffs of the picturesque canyon of the river Rusenski Lom. These caves were dug as hermitages during a period running from the 10th century to the 15th century, turning the river valley and its tributaries into a Bulgarian spiritual centre. The Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo, with their extremely well-preserved murals, are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.