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The Lutheran Church in Utrecht has been housed in this Louis XIV-style building since the 17th century, when Protestantism became the only permitted denomination of Christianity in the Netherlands.

The Lutheran Church, or St Nicholas Church, was built between 1848 and 1852. In 1830, an evangelical Lutheran community was formed in Mykolaiv from sailors and officers of the Russian Black Sea fleet from the Baltic States. One of the initiators of the creation of the Lutheran community was the military governor, Admiral Greig. At the request of the military governor, Admiral MP Lazarev, the Russian Emperor Nicholas I approved the project of building the temple on 18 August 1848. The Englishman Charles Ackroyd was appointed architect for the project.

The Lutheran Church of Odessa was built in the 19th century to attract German settlers to the Russian Empire. The first Lutheran church was built between 1825 and 1827. However, due to the rapid increase in the number of Lutherans in the city, the church had to be rebuilt from 1895. After decades of abandonment after World War II, the church was handed over to the German Evangelical Lutheran Church and restoration work began.

The Lutheran church of Siófok was built in the 1980s in an organic style according to the plans of Imre Makovecz. Much of the wood needed for the construction of the church was sent from Oulu, Siófok's twin town, so the public space around the church was named Oulu Park. One of the seven towers of the Hungarian pavilion at the World Exhibition in Seville in 1992 served as a model for the tower of this church.

Built at the beginning of the 20th century, between 1902 and 1903, the Lutheran Reformed Church was designed by the architect Pecz Samu. The dominant style of the church is Gothic Revival, which can be seen in the door and window frames, buttresses and towers on the main façade, which are covered with tiles and glazed ceramics.

The Lutherkirche is the reconstruction of an Evangelical Lutheran church in 1883-1884 and named Luther on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the reformer.

In 1925, a Jewish cemetery was established. According to epigraphic data, the cemetery was operating until WWII. Jews settled in Luzhany in the 18th century. In the early 20th century, a Hebrew school was opened

Presumably, the Jewish cemetery in Lyakhivtsi was established in the 19th century, although the oldest preserved gravestone dates only to 1908. The cemetery was used until WWII.

Lye Church is one of the 92 medieval churches on the island of Gotland.

The Lygra church from 1892 was designed by the architect Petter Gabrielsen. On the outside, the church looks like a typical neo-gothic church with a narrower choir and three sides to the east, with a sacristy on each side and a tower to the west. The interior is a masterpiece of Swiss style carpentry, with cross-stitch ornaments, window frames, a pulpit and baptismal font. In addition, the church has an exceptionally rich decorative painting with stencilled ornaments, lines and outlines.