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The Greek-Catholic Cathedral of Uzhhorodis was built by the Jesuits in 1646 and was intended as a Jesuit college. The church is dedicated to the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. After the Jesuit order was banned in 1773, the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa gave the church to the Greek Catholics. In 1799, an iconostasis corresponding to the Baroque church was added. During the Soviet period, the church was given to the Orthodox Church. The bishop's residence, located next door, was used as a technical school and became very dilapidated over the years. It was not until 1991 that the church and the residence were returned to the ownership of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church.

The Greek Catholic Church of the Ascension of the Lord was built from 1905 onwards in the neo-Romanesque style. The Greek-Catholic parish of Sremska Mitrovica was founded in 1886 because from 1848 Ukrainians and Ruthenians from north-eastern Hungary (now western Ukraine) began to settle in Sremska Mitrovica.

The Greek church of Galaţi was built from 1864-6 to 1872 by Greek merchants. At the main entrance, on a marble plaque, are engraved the names of the main founders of the church: Andreas Panas, Dimitrios Rodokanakis, Constantin Sakomanos. The communist regime made several attempts to destroy the church, but it survived thanks to the active resistance of its clergy.

The Greenville Hall Synagogue in Dublin is an Ashkenazi synagogue built in 1924-25 by architect Aubrey Vincent O'Rourke. In use until 1986, this brick synagogue now serves as an office building.

The Grefsen church was completed in 1940 according to the plans of municipal architect Georg Greve. The main form of the church has much in common with traditional Norwegian Romanesque churches, but Grefsen church is functional in both architecture and decoration.

The Gregoriou Monastery is one of the 20 self-governing Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Mount Athos. It is ranked seventeenth in the Athonite, the hierarchical order of the twenty monasteries on the peninsula of Athos.

Greipstad church is a wooden church built in 1829. The church, with a rectangular plan, was designed by architect Arild Sibbern.

Gressvik church is a long church whose construction took place between 1917 and 1925. The church is made of stone and replaces a church that burned down in 1915.

The Greverud church is a cubic-shaped building, built in 1967 in Nordre Follo. The architect of the church is Harald Hille.

Located near Grassmarket, Greyfriars Kirk is an early 17th-century church, the first built in Edinburgh after the Reformation.