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Standing on an ancient Christian site, the current church was built in 1900-02 to designs by W Dunn and R Watson, the successors to James M MacLaren who redeveloped the village for Sir Donald Currie blending Scottish vernacular with the newly fashionable Arts and Crafts style.

Fortun Stave church, dating from the years 11-1200, was above the road to today's church. The present church was built in wood in 1879. It has a long plan and was designed by the architect E. Rusten. The Stave church was demolished and rebuilt in Fantoft in 1883, together with the Borgund Stave church, but unfortunately, it was burnt down on 6 June 1992.

The Fossum church is a brick "working church" from 1976. The architect of the church was the architectural firm Anker & Hølaas. The church has a separate bell tower with 12 bells from Olsen Nauen Klokkestøperi.

The cemetery was established in Frampol right after the city’s founding. The cemetery survived the War almost intact. After the War, the local non-Jewish population used the stone fence and most of the tombstones for construction purposes. After 1946, the cemetery was narrowed on the west side, and the edge was incorporated into the town. Over time, the cemetery became overgrown with poplars and robins. In 1985, the cemetery was fenced, a memorial for the victims of the Holocaust was erected, and the mass graves were marked. It is home to 46 tombstones, some of which are today badly damaged. The cemetery also has 160 matzevot, most of which are fragmented and the oldest of which dates to 1735 or 1736.

The abbey church of the Franciscans was built between 1235 and 1250, after the arrival of the Franciscans in Prenzlau from 1240 onwards. After the complex changed hands several times, the church was consecrated again in 1598 and was given the name Church of the Holy Trinity. From then on, the Lutheran congregation used the building. In 1735 the buildings of the surrounding monastery were demolished and only the abbey church was preserved. Around 1970, the monastery church was abandoned and became increasingly dilapidated. It was repaired and reopened in 1995.

St. Anne's Church, also called the Franciscan church, was originally built in 1224 as part of a Franciscan monastery. The present building was built after the Turkish occupation, between 1700 and 1717, making it the oldest Baroque building in the city. Its tower was built in 1753, the onion helmet only in 1837, and in 1886 a new tower was built.

The Church of the Annunciation, also called the Franciscan Church, is a monastery church located next to the standing Franciscan monastery. It was built between 1646 and 1660 on the site of the former church of St. Martin built by the Augustinians. At the end of the 18th century, with the Josephine reforms, the Augustinian order was abolished and the church and monastery were installed by the Franciscans, who still own the entire complex today.

The Franciscan church is the oldest active church in the city. Excavations carried out in the 1990s found traces suggesting that a primitive Christian church was located on this site as early as Roman times. Around 1360, a monastery was established on the site by the Franciscans, which was abandoned for a century with the Reformation and damaged by fire in 1723. The monastery reached its heyday in the first half of the 20th century as a theological college of the Marian Order. Today, the building is still occupied by Franciscan monks.

The Franciscan Church - one of the few original Gothic churches of Central Switzerland - is one of the oldest churches in the City of Lucerne. It was built from 1270 onwards and in several stages, with its core preserved to this day. This means that its medieval-Gothic room character is still visible and palpable even today. Its interior however has been subject to major changes: The plain wooden ceiling for instance was removed during the Baroque Period, replaced by one made from plaster and decorated with ceiling frescos. Over several centuries, the church served as a minster for the mendicants of the Order of St. Francis. It also served as a venue for services and meetings for the town population. Today it is the parish church of the St. Mary parish for Franciscans.

The Church of the Annunciation of the Lord and the Monastery of the Friar Franciscan Friars (the Franciscan Church) are originally a Gothic complex, later rebuilt, in the old town of Bratislava. The church is historically the oldest preserved religious building in the Slovak capital.