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Modern church with tower.

Modern church hall at the retirement home. This complex replaced the previous Reformed Christ is King Church.

Interesting reconstruction church. In 1948 it was decided to establish a new parish in Geleen-South. The name was parish of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The emergency church on the Kummenaedestraat was put into use on 3 July 1949. Two years later, on 20 April 1951, the foundation stone was laid for the permanent church. The consecration took place on 14 May 1953. In January 2010, the Resurrection Church (Potterstraat) was closed for worship. The reason was that the number of volunteers was declining due to the ageing population. In addition, there were no funds to maintain the building. The purpose of the building is not yet known. The Christus Koningkerk (Kluis 19) is still in use in 2016.

Christ the Light of the World, modern church with bell tower.

The first plans for the construction of this complex date from 1957. The architect was given considerable freedom in his design regarding the location of the "church centre" on the building site and regarding the layout of the church hall. However, the pulpit had to occupy a central place, the liturgical centre and baptismal font had to be clearly visible and the sound insulation had to be good. Originally, in addition to a sexton's house, a rectory was also planned, but the latter was later abandoned. The design by architect G. Drexhage, which was the best, was implemented. The church building was built on a raised square, just above street level.

The present building of the Protestant parish church dates from 1859 to 1863 and replaced a house of prayer built in 1785, after the "patent of tolerance" of Joseph II (1781) authorising Protestant worship. The Protestant parish church in Hallstatt is a listed monument in Austria.

The Evangelical Lutheran Christuskirche was built from 1674 to 1677 with a Capuchin monastery responsible for the implementation of the Counter-Reformation in the region. In 1802, the monastery was dissolved and the monastery church was converted into several storage barns. Reused by Protestants from 1855, the church was restored and given a bell tower in the second half of the 19th century.

The church of Saint-Gorgon, a Historic Monument since 1977, dates from the end of the 12th century. The church, oriented West-East, with four bays, initially ended with a flat chevet to which a five-sided sacristy was later added. However, the three lancets can still be seen in the sacristy. The nave is topped by a gabled roof and the chancel by a hipped roof. The entrance to the building is an open wooden porch (late 15th or 16th century). Once inside you can admire the 18th-century high altar with a copy of a painting by Van Dyck and terracotta statues. The octagonal baptismal basin, perhaps dating from the 16th century, is also worth noting.

The church with the ecclesionym Metamorphosis Sotiros is situated north of the original settlement.

The Ahmet Subaşı mosque is a converted Byzantine church with the former ekklesionym Agios Nikolaos and is located in the north-western edge of the old village centre.