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The first construction was initiated in 340 by Saint Lidoire, the second Bishop of Tours. In 561, the church was destroyed by fire. Gregoire de Tours had it rebuilt from 570 onwards. In the 12th century, Bishop Hildebert de Lavardin (1125-1134) undertook the reconstruction. The operation was completed around 1150 but a fire damaged it heavily in 1167. A new reconstruction project was launched, but it was not until 1547 that the church was completely completed.

The church in Tovdal is a long church that was built in 1820, but it was not consecrated until 1827. The church has changed colour several times: in 1837 it was painted red, in 1854 white, in 1932 red and in 1964 again white. In 1930-32 there was a major renovation according to the plans of Wilhelm Swensen.

Tovik church is a wooden that was built in 1905. The church has a long plan and was designed by architect N. Saxegaard.

The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. It appears on cadastral maps of 1826, 1858 and 1899. It can be assumed that the cemetery already existed in the middle of the 18th century. The grave of Baal Shem Tov’s mother, Sarah, is located on the Jewish cemetery of Tovste.

The Antonius van Paduakerk was a Roman Catholic church from the 1950s demolished in 2011. Only the bell tower and the baptistery were spared from demolition. The restored baptistery is now used as a chapel.

This tower is the last remnant of St. Catherine's Church which preceded the present church. The former Church of St. Catherine was a Gothic church built in the 14th and 15th centuries. The church was later enlarged by a choir in the 17th century. In the same century, from 1629 to 1664, the baroque bell tower was built. The bell tower was restored between 1913 and 1930.

The Tower-like synagogue in Úštĕk is an Ashkenazi synagogue built between 1791 and 1794. The synagogue was rebuilt in 1851 and between 1993 and 2003. In use until 1938, this brick synagogue is now a museum.

The town church of Göppingen is one of the largest Protestant churches of the Renaissance. On the present site of the town church there were probably several earlier buildings, the most recent of which is St. John's Chapel, first mentioned in 1348. After the introduction of the Reformation in Göppingen in 1534, the chapel, which was rebuilt in Gothic style after the town fire in 1425, became the town church. Between 1838 and 1845, the dilapidated tower in the south-western corner of the church, which still dates from the time of the town fortifications and St. John's Chapel, was removed and the present tower was built in the centre of the south gable.

The town church dates mainly from the 15th century. Between 1466 and 1473, the church, including the spire and stair turret, was completed in the format we see today. A church designated as "Sancti Petri du Portu Mari" in 1048, may be a reference to the chapel on the site first mentioned in 1020. The church has been Anglican since 1662 when the Book of Common Prayer was translated into French by order of King Charles II of England for use in the Channel Islands.

Trachonas' Panagia (Παναγία) church is located at the northern edge of the old village centre and was built in 1916 on the site of an old mediaeval church. According to Kassinis, the building is an outstanding example for a Greek Orthodox church built in Cyprus in the early 20th century. Between 2008 and 2011, the area around the church was completely redesigned. Since then, the church itself is located in the middle of a roundabout. The church itself and an adjacent house to the east function today as a youth centre.