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The Tangen Church was built from 1850 to 1854 on a former wooden church from the end of the 17th century. Already in 1838 the restoration of the three churches in the town was considered, but although plans for the restoration of the churches in Bragernes and Strømsø were quickly approved, the reconstruction of the church in Tangen did not begin until 1850 because it was considered too expensive.

The Tangen church is an octagonal wooden church built according to the plans of the architect Christian H. Grosch in 1861. The church has a dome-shaped structure and a pyramidal roof over the choir. The interior is well preserved with much of the furniture from the time of construction. The church was renovated on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the church in 1936. The pulpit was lowered and decorated with evangelists painted by Einar Rønning.

The Tanners' Mosque dates back to the 18th century. From 1967, after Albania was declared an atheist state by the communist government of Enver Hoxha, the Mosque was closed. It reopened in 1990.

The church of Tanum was first built in 1100 and is a relatively large medieval stone church, decorated on the outside and inside, with visible quarry stone corners. The church has a rectangular vessel and a narrower, approximately square choir with an apse, a semicircular extension with a half-domed vaulted ceiling. In 1910-11, the church was restored and partially restored according to the plans of the architect Haldor Larsen Børve.

The Tanum church is a brick church built in the 12th century. The octagonal spire was built in 1625 by the famous "Christoffer Thornebøger" who also made a tower at the church in Enebakk. In the middle of the 19th century the church was threatened with demolition, but it was finally restored at the beginning of the 20th century.

In the 70s and 80s, more and more guest workers from Morocco settled in IJsselstein and the surrounding area. With them came the demand for an Islamic prayer room where they could perform their daily prayers and where the Friday sermon could be held. They made sure that a prayer room was rented on the Randdijk.

The existence of the Cathedral of Taranto was confirmed in the 7th century, but it was probably demolished to make way for a new cathedral in the 11th century. However, the old construction was not completely replaced: the longitudinal arm, enlarged and lowered, incorporated the nave with the deep apse of the Byzantine church, which remained unchanged; the altar was placed under the dome and the old nave became the transept, which was then cut off from the side naves, leaving a series of small columns that decorated the old construction. In 1713 the Baroque façade was added, the work of the Lecce architect Mauro Manieri.

The first Christian basilica in Tarbes was probably built at the end of the 4th century. In 844, the Normans ravaged Gascony: the city and its church were destroyed, the episcopal seat abandoned. It was not until the 11th century that a new cathedral was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The texts then tell us about the cathedral of Sainte-Marie- de-la-Sède (from the Latin sedes: the seat, i. e. the place of residence of the bishop) or Sainte-Marie-de-Bigorre. The cathedral was completely rebuilt between the end of the 12th century and the beginning of the 13th century. The construction site, spread over a hundred years, was built from east to west. The choir and arms of the transept were built in Romanesque style. Along with Saint-Sever-de-Rustan, Saint-Orens-en-Lavedan and Saint-Savin-en-Lavedan, Tarbes Cathedral is one of the four most important Romanesque churches in Bigorre.

The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. The oldest gravestone relates to the early 18th century, so it can be assumed that the cemetery emerged during that period. First, it appears on Russian maps of 1915 and 1917. According to locals, the cemetery was operational in the first half of the 20th century.

The present church in Tarnow is thought to date from the 14th century. The Gothic church with two naves and four brick bays, with pointed vaults, was divided in such a way that women and men were seated separated by a row of pillars. The church has an altar with a carved central sanctuary dating from the 15th century.