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The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. The oldest preserved matsevah among existing gravestones relates to the early 20th century so it can be assumed that the cemetery emerged during that period. It appeares on an old Polish topographic map. The cemetery was fenced by ESJF in September 2015.

This church is one of the three churches of the Protestant Wadden Sea Community of Texel, namely: the Seamen's Church in Oudeschild, the Great Church in Oosterend and the Wadden Church in De Cocksdorp.

Zehdenick Monastery was a convent for Cistercian nuns founded around 1250. After almost 300 years, it was converted into a Protestant convent in 1541. The buildings were destroyed in the Thirty Years' War, except for some vestiges. The preserved buildings today house church and cultural institutions.

Interesting church without tower. Nickname "Witteveenkerkje". Built as neo-Gothic hall church. Renovated in 1934, including a new front facade, in expressionist forms. Extension 1980.

The church was built in the 12th and 13th century as a fortified church. At that time only the nave stood. The tower was only added in the 18th century and today it offers living space for two kestrels and a barn owl.

Small neo-Gothic church without tower. In use by Seventh Day Baptists since 1877. Also in use (or has been?) by the Old Reformed Church and the Free Evangelical Church. The Seventh Day Baptists are Baptists who do not hold their worship service and weekly day of rest on Sunday, but on the Sabbath (Saturday).

The cemetery can be found marked on maps of the region from 1868 and 1900, and epigraphic data shows it was still in use after World War II. It has around 1,500 tombstones. The most recent preserved gravestone dates from the 1990s.

Presumably, the Jewish Cemetery in Zhnyatyno was established in the 19th century. According to epigraphic data, it already existed in 1832. The cemetery was used after WWII, and the latest preserved gravestone dates to 1966.

The St. Nicholas Zhydychyn Monastery is one of the oldest monasteries of Kievan Rus and, according to some sources, was founded before the baptism of Rus in the 9th and 10th centuries.

This monastery was founded in the early 13th century by the first king of Serbia, Stefan the First-Crowned. The church of the monastery became the coronational church for Serbian monarchs. The monastery was constructed in the Rascian architectural style and is considered an important cultural heritage site by Serbia.