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Albenga Cathedral was founded during the reconstruction of the city between the end of the 4th and the beginning of the 5th century, in the centre of the Roman city. It was rebuilt around 1100, on the remains of the old early Christian church, and then in the second half of the 12th century.

The current Albi Cathedral building, made of brick, replaces an old stone cathedral. It was built over two centuries, from 1282 to 1480, with notable complications such as a fire destroying the roof in the 14th century. The interior is richly decorated with paintings from the late 15th / early 16th century. In the 18th century, the façade threatened to collapse and was rebuilt. Its impressive dimensions make Albi Cathedral the largest brick cathedral in the world.

Situated on the island of Öland in the Baltic Sea, the church has existed since the Middle Ages. The current architecture is however from the 19th century. The church contains a Romanesque baptismal font, probably made by the artist known as Master Byzantios on Gotland.

To the north and south there are mosaic panes, and each of the panes has its own title. The windows here are subdued in the colors, and the motifs are only hinted at, because Havsteen-Mikkelsen wanted the altarpiece with the crucified Christ to be the most distinctive pane in the room.

Aldersund church, formerly Aldersund chapel, is a wooden church built in 1971 and designed by architect John Egil Tverdahl.

The present mosque of Alektora is very certainly a completely new construction of a mosque that was already built on the same site in 1849. The keystone above the main entrance bears the date 20.10.1931. The mosque is located in the centre of the village and is built into a hillside.

Ålen Church is a long church dating from 1881 in Holtålen municipality in Trøndelag county. The present church has replaced a stave church from the Middle Ages. Parts of the stave church were used when the neighbouring Haltdalen stave church was rebuilt in a museum in Trondheim at the end of the 1880s. The west portal, leaf and west wall of the Haltdalen Stave church come from the Ålen Stave church.

This church is one of the oldest in Beauvais, with an edification started in the 11th century and completed in the 13th century. A fire ravaged the church in 1592, then it was restored in the XVIIth, then in the XVIIIth with the reconstruction of the bell tower.

The Cathedral of Ales was built in 1708 on a project by the Genoese architect Domenico Spotorno, who also worked on the conversion of the Cathedral of Cagliari in the Baroque style, a church that served as a model for the Cathedral of Ales. In the first half of the twentieth century, the decorations and frescoes of the interior were completed, and recently important restoration work was carried out, which affected the church for about twenty years.

The church in Ålesund was built in stone from 1905. Nordmøre stone was chosen as the material for the church because Ålesund had just suffered a fire in 1904. Frescoes and stained glass by Enevold Thømt.