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The Great Beit Midrash in Ivianets was likely first established in 1792. The current wooden building was built around 1912. After WWII, the building housed a cinema, and later a cultural centre. In 2005, old frescoes were found on the walls of the building. In 2010, the synagogue was transferred to a Jewish religious association.

The wooden mosque of Kruszyniany was built by tatar settlers of the region around the 18th century. The modern mosque is estimated to have been built in the late 19th or early 20th century. The mosque and the village itself is was designated as a place of national importance for Poland in 2012.

The synagogue is a wooden log structure of rectangular plan, built on a rough-stone concrete foundation and divided into two floors in the west. The structure is spanned with a hipped rafter roof covered with tin. On the exterior, the building is protected with horizontal weather-boarding above the windowsills of the prayer hall, and a vertical one below them. A prayer hall of almost square plan is situated on the eastern side. On the western side the building includes a vestibule and a small room with a stove, which also heated the prayer hall. A staircase in the southwestern corner leads to a women's section on the first floor, which opens to the prayer hall with two long rectangular windows. Neither a bimah (presumably at the center), nor a Torah ark (presumably at the eastern wall) has survived. The main entrance to the building is in the western wall and the women's entrance is on the southern wall. Ten round-headed windows opened from the prayer hall: three windows on the southern and northern walls and two pairs of windows on the eastern wall (the central windows on the north and south were later converted into doors). The windows of the vestibule and the women's section are rectangular. The ceilings are joisted flat constructions that of the prayer hall is supported by two large beams, resting on the western wall of the women's section and the eastern wall of the prayer hall.

The beit midrash, built in 1928, stands north of Taikos Street, facing the town center with its southern entrance façade. It is a rectangular log structure on a fieldstone masonry foundation, covered with horizontal planks. Oriented with its short walls to east and west, it is 15.13 m long, 13.77 wide and 10.07 m high above the foundation. The building is topped with a gable roof, covered with asbestos sheets; original shingles are partially preserved under them. The prayer hall occupied the eastern part of the building, while the women's section was situated on the first floor of the western part. It may be assumed that the prayer hall was lit by the three windows on south and north; currently, there are only two rectangular windows on each side. The original fenestration on the east is unknown; a doorway in the southern part of the eastern façade is of post-WWII origins. There are no remains of Torah ark or bimah. Two small rectangular windows on the northern façade, and one similar window on each western and southern façades once gave light to the women's section. After WWII, the beit midrash was converted into a palace of culture. The prayer hall was changed into an auditorium, with the stage at the western end, over part of the original vestibule. A wooden entrance portico under a gable roof was added to the southern façade, and a plastered brick cinema projection unit to the eastern one. The building has been abandoned since the 1990s.

The Synagogue in Skhidnytsia is an Ashkenazi synagogue completed around 1900. This former wooden synagogue is now a factory.

The wooden synagogue, probably built in the late 19th century, stands in the center of the town at one of its main streets. The synagogue is a rectangular log structure on a masonry foundation, elongated on an east-west axis, 13.19 m long, 11.95 m wide and about 9.50 m high above the foundation. The log walls are reinforced with vertical posts and sided with vertical planks. There were two entrances, on the northern and western façades, however it is not clear which was the main one. The exterior clearly shows the interior division of space into a lofty prayer hall and a two-storey western part with a vestibule and first-floor women's section. The interior partitions have not survived, and today the interior is a single space. The interior was lathed and plastered. Today, the plaster is largely lost; where it survives, traces of blue painted frieze can be seen. The hall was spanned with a flat ceiling, tied to the roof trusses. It was lit by ten rectangular windows: two pairs of windows in the eastern wall, and three windows each in the southern and northern walls. The exterior wooden framings and seals of these windows are elaborately molded. The windows of the western part of the synagogue are rectangular, set in two tiers, matching the entrance floor and the women's gallery. Most of the windows are currently planked up. The synagogue is topped with a gabled roof, covered with asbestos sheets over old shingles. The western gable is pierced with two rectangular windows in a lower tier and a small semicircular window above them. The eastern gable is pierced with two rectangular windows in its lower part. In autumn 1941 the synagogue together with all its movables, including a comparatively large number of books, was locked and sealed, and its keys were kept with the town's authorities. After WW II the former synagogue served as storage space, and a wooden annex was added to its western façade. Since the 1990s the building has been abandoned and the annex vanished in the 2000s.

The Wooden Synagogue in Velyki Komiaty is an Ashkenazi synagogue whose construction date is unknown. The synagogue is now abandoned.

The wooden synagogue of Alanta, built between 1870 and 1900, is one of the few remaining wooden synagogues in Lithuania. Abandoned with the Second World War, it is now used as a storage facility.

The first Methodist church in Woodhall Spa was built in 1899 before which worshippers had to go to the chapel at nearby hamlet of Kirkstead.

Worcester Cathedral has been described as possibly the most interesting of all England's cathedrals, especially architecturally.