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The Synaxis Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a wooden tserkvas built in 1838. It is an important monument of Boykos architecture. Its bell tower was built later in 1924.

The Temple of All Religions or the Universal Temple is a unique architectural complex in the Staroye Arakchino Microdistrict of Kazan, Russia. It consists of several types of religious architecture including an Orthodox church, a mosque, and a synagogue, among others. It is currently under construction since 1992, started by local artist and philanthropist Ildar Khanov. The structure now serves as a cultural center and a residence for Khanov's brother and sister, who both continue to serve as guides and supervisors of the complex.

The Uppsala cathedral is noted as being the tallest cathedral of the Nordic countries. It is the burial site of King Eric IX of Sweden and was the traditional coronational church for Swedish monarchs. The cathedral was built in the 13th century as a catholic church and became important during the Protestant Reformation as its chapels were converted into tombs for several Swedish monarchs. The church was built during the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries in a french gothic style. Its latest editions were its enormous spires, which were completed in the 18th century.

St. Kajetan Church in Munich, called Theatinerkirche, served as a monastery church of the order of Theatine. It was built from 1663 to 1690 on the model of the church of Sant'Andrea della Valle in Rome, dating back to the 16th century.

The building is located outside of the village in north-western direction (approx. 2 km).

The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown, but it can be assumed that it emerged in the 18th-19th centuries.

The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown, but it can be assumed that it was founded between the 14th and 15th centuries. On the eve of WWII, 40 active synagogues were in Thessaloniki. A total of 48,533 Jews were deported to the death camps. By the end of the war, Thessaloniki remained the great centre of Sephardic Jewry in Europe. After the war, around 400 Jews returned to Thessaloniki. The community was reestablished and became the second-largest Jewish community in Greece after Athens.

This church was built around 1500 in the late Gothic style with yellow bricks mixed with granite blocks and chalk. In the disused cemetery is the tomb of J.P. Jacobsen (1847-1885).

The Thomas Church in Katlijk is built with rose shops: bricks that are smaller than monastery mops. The current church dates back to 1525. On the north side of the church is a double bell tower seated on a gable roof. The bells are used for Sint-Thomasluiden (sounding bells between the 21 December and 31 December).

The first church of this village, according to the chronicles, was built in the year 1303 by a noble maiden from the family of Ubnia, who entered a convent, on the north side of the old convent, next to the stins of Brother Dodo Tjebbinga, who gave this new church a beautiful crucifix; while it was endowed with two beautiful paintings by his two brothers, Gerlacus and Benedictus. However, this church later fell into disrepair due to old age, and in 1508 a completely new one was built for it, and provided with a new tower, because the old one had already collapsed the previous year." The church on the relatively high cemetery mound is surrounded by a gravel path with a double hedge with lime trees. The church was built in 1873 to a design by JA Timmenga to replace an older house of worship. The building is constructed of grey-brown brick with yellow reveals around the windows with iron traceries. The tower is incorporated in the west facade and provided with a wooden superstructure with a constricted, octagonal spire with slates. The church roof has blue glazed, corrugated Frisian tiles. During restoration, the gravestone of the last abbot of Bloemkamp, ​​the Cistercian abbey near Hartwerd, was found. The gravestone of Thomas van Groningen is displayed in the church.