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The Gallus Chapel of Winterberg, which was consecrated in 2000, is a motorway chapel located close to the Federal Highway 96. The chapel was planned and designed by the architect and former mayor of Leutkirch Georg Zimmer. The planning and construction management was carried out by the architect Georg Heinz from Adrazhofen and the technical construction management by Anton Bodenmüller from Tautenhofen.

Charming historic church with small tower, exemplarily restored/reconstructed after heavy war damage. Major renovation. New tower. Tower 1766, blown up 1945, restored and significantly modified 1950.

Historic village church with tower. Replaced an older church from the 13th century, originally dedicated to St. Gallus.

Considered to be one of the "last great stone cathedrals of Europe", the Galway cathedral was constructed in 1965 on the site of the old city prison. It is today one of the largest and most iconic buildings in the city.

Gamlebyen Church is also called Oslo Hospital Church because it belongs to Oslo Hospital. The present church building was built in 1796 partly on the foundations of the Franciscan monastery church built around 1290. After the Reformation in 1536, the church was converted into a hospital. In 1567, when the Swedes attacked, the first church was destroyed. In 1581, a hospital was built on the ruins of the choir walls of the monastery church. In the 19th century, the church was rebuilt several times. In the period 1934-1939, it was restored by the architect Wilhelm K. Essendrop and regained a more original appearance.

Gammelgarn Church is one of the 92 medieval churches on the island of Gotland. The church stands next to a defensive tower probably built to protect the congregation from external attacks.

Gamvik Church is a working church dating from 1958. It was designed by Gudolf Blakstad and Herman Munthe-Kaas. The old church in Gamvik, like most others in this part of Finnmark, was burnt down when the German forces withdrew during the war. The church is the most northerly church on the European continent.

Since 1978 the church of Gand has been a "working church". It has since been completely renovated inside and out and reopened in 2010. The nave has a design that makes everything point towards the altarpiece.

Gandersheim Abbey was founded in 852 by the Saxon Count Liudolf. An imperial abbey from the 13th century until its dissolution in 1810, it hosted a community of women from noble families who lived secular lives without having to take perpetual vows. The abbey is famous to have been the living place of Hrotsvita of Gandersheim, a poetess and first Germanic author of the Ottonian Renaissance (930 - 1030).

Reformed Church. Brick, simple village church with a three-sided closed choir, dating from the beginning of the 16th century. The design of the tracery-free pointed arch windows as well as the buttresses of the nave date from the restoration of 1930-'31. The extremely heavy, brick tower, like the church, dates from the beginning of the 16th century and shows a decoration of simple, basket-arched niches against the south and west wings. The north facade is virtually undecorated, but has a hexagonal staircase tower with pointed, stone cover. Only the east and west facades have sound holes. Bell frame with bell by an anonymous founder, 1869, diam. 47.5 cm. Mechanical tower clock, later equipped with electric winding.