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Vustra Vingaker's church was built during the Middle Ages, around the year 1300. Of the original medieval church, however, not much remains. The emissary church has today is more reminiscent of the great power era's 17th century when i.a. the choir and the altarpiece came into being. However, the church got its current appearance in connection with the major renovation that was completed in 1783 when i.a. the cross arms and the sacristy were built. The last major change to the church's exterior that was made was in 1885 when the tower hood was added.

Lavra Svyatogorsk is an Orthodox monastery whose first mention dates from 1526. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, there were 600 monks in the monastery. Neglected during the Soviet period, the monastery was restored in 1992.

Sviland chapel is a wooden building completed in 1913. The architect of the chapel is Michael Slettebø (1879 – 1925).

The Svinndal church was built in 1856. It replaced a church that burned down in 1854. The project of building the new church was entrusted to the architect Chr.H.Grosch who gave the church a neo-gothic and Swiss-style.

Svolvær Church, which was consecrated in 1934, is a characteristic long church with a choir at the base of the tower, built with plastered exterior and interior walls according to the drawings of architect Harald Sund. The church is characterised by simple and strict forms, like the church of a medieval village.

The Jewish Museum is situated in Sweden’s oldest preserved synagogue. The building as well as our exhibitions tell the story of the Jews who came to Sweden, how they formed a community, and how they became a part of Swedish society, both past and present. Stockholm’s earliest Jewish congregation moved to the building, a then defunct auction room, in 1795. It was to be the focus of Jewish life in Sweden for almost a century.

Kumla church is located right next to the old main road through Nurke, which was also the king's eriksgata. Just southeast of the church, in a small depression on the slope, is what is usually called Franzen's cave. Here is a memorial stone since 1946 for the psalm poet Frans Michael Franzen who was pastor in Kumla 1812-1825.

Church expansion 1993. The Christian Separated Community was instituted on April 24, 1850. On December 8 of that same year, a separate church could be put into use. It was located on Tuskendiken, north of Bergum because the church members also lived in Veenwoudsterwal, Veenwouden and Noordbergum. In 1872, a new church was put into use in the center of Bergum. The old church was demolished and rebuilt in Veenwoudsterwal. (57-07)

The Agioi Paides Church is located approx. one kilometre north of the village, at the Lapathos-Sygkrasi road. The condition of the building is poor. The substance has already deteriorated, especially the interior is affected.

The church with the ekklesionym Agios Prokopios is located to the south, just outside the original settlement area. The church was probably built in the 11th or 12th century. The church was probably built in the 11th or 12th century on the remains of a previous building from the 6th century.