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Beautiful wooden Vermaning without tower. This Mennonite church was built in 1703 to replace an older Vermaanhuys that was lost in a fire on 22 July 1702. Due to the great sacrifice of surrounding Mennonite communities, the new building was consecrated on 17 May 1703. The Vermaning, built by master carpenter Claes Gerritz. Underwater, Inverdan stands : The government prohibited Mennonites from building churches that were recognisable from the road. A major restoration took place from 1959 to 1963. From ? to 1971 it was also temporarily used by the Reformed Church (Liberated).

Small hall church in neo-Romanesque style, with plastered facade. The church building is for sale in 2024. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Built to replace a church from 1655, which was demolished in 1950.

Mennonite Meeting House. Largely wooden building with hipped roof from 1680, in 1873 provided with a monumental brick front facade (in the west) and a brick side facade (on the south side). In the interior galleries on three sides (west, south and north). Pulpit, two copper lecterns, two copper stands for chandeliers and two copper chandeliers, 18th century. Mahogany lectern, 19th century. The pulpit is located in the (northern) focal wall. Opposite, against the south wall, on the gallery, the organ.

As the ministers of the Mennonite congregation in Pieterzijl preferred to live in Grijpskerk, in 1890 a presbytery was built on the Herestraat in Grijpskerk.

The Dormition Cathedral (Uspensky Sobor) in the Moscow Kremlin is the main Russian Orthodox church, serving as the coronation site for Russian monarchs, the burial place for patriarchs, and a major historical and spiritual centre. It is known for its iconic Russian Orthodox architecture and religious significance as the "mother church" of Muscovite Russia, housing significant icons and art.

The complex of the Church of the Assumption or Dormition, built in the 16th and 17th centuries, is a Renaissance church, which today is part of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. The structure of the building is supported by columns in the Italian Renaissance style. The walls are separated by pilasters with window arches and bas-reliefs. The interior is decorated with paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries and an iconostasis from 1773.

The "Holy Assumption", built in 1882 - 1886, is the Cathedral of Varna and one of its symbols. Its construction was undertaken by both Bulgarians and Russians after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878.

The Orthodox Cathedral of Cluj-Napoca was built between 1920 and 1930, immediately after the union between Transylvania and Romania. The Brâncovenesc style building is classified as a historical monument.

The church of the Dormition of the Theotokos (Panagia Sourouthiani) is a 13th-century Orthodox church. The interior preserves frescoes from 1316. The exterior is decorated with incrustated ceramics called Pinakia.