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Grgeteg Monastery was founded by Serbian Despot Vuk Grgurević in 1471. It is one of the 16 surviving Orthodox monasteries built between the 15th and 18th centuries on the Fruška Gora mountain in Serbia (also known as the Serbian Mount Athos).

The Greek Church of the Holy Trinity is located in the old "Greek Quarter". Inaugurated in 1858, the building has a distinctive Byzantine style.

Grim Church is a ‘working church’ from 1969. The church was designed by the then city architect in Kristiansand, Alv Erikstad.

The church was mentioned in the Domesday Book and there is evidence of Roman and Saxon material in the west wall. St James' received Minster status in 2010. This large, cruciform church suffered bomb damage on 14th July 1943 when two bombs dropped into the churchyard, destroying the north wall of the transept and damaging most of the glass.

The Grimstad church was designed by the architect Henrik Thrap-Meyer in 1881 and replaced the town's first church dating from 1849. It was the first neo-Gothic church in Norway to undergo a colour examination in the 1960s and was then restored to its original exterior colours with a yellow-ochre contrast in the structural elements. The interior is a rarely well-preserved example of neo-Gothic decoration with profiled beams, rectilinear construction and distinctive colours.

Grindheim Church is a white, wooden church built in a cruciform design in 1783. The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1425, but the church was not new that year. The old medieval church was torn down in 1783 and replaced with the new building.

The Grindheim church in is a church dating from 1724. The church has a porch to the west and a choir to the east, but no tower. To the north of the choir is a sacristy from 1954-55.

Grindsted Church was founded in the 12th century as a traditional Romanesque village church with nave and choir. The church was extended several times during the Middle Ages, the last time around 1500 with the extension of the nave to the west and the construction of a porch. Due to the increasing population of the village, the church was extended in 1921-23.

It is not known when the Grip Stave church was built, but it was completely rebuilt in 1621. However, the construction of the wand itself may be older. Inside, there are painted wall decorations from the 17th century.

Grong Church is a long church dating from 1877. It replaces an earlier medieval one, from which the wooden sculpture of the "Grong Virgin", transferred to the NTNU University Museum in 1878, originated. The sculpture dates from around 1250 and shows a joyful Mary sitting with her son on her left knee. The painting of the sculpture is in remarkably good condition.