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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.

Renovated 18th century, tower 1869. The Protestant Community of Ee, Oostrum and Jouswier was created after the merger between the then Reformed Community of Ee, Oostrum and Jouswier and the Reformed Church of Ee. It is part of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands.

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

The castle was built in the 13th century to serve as refuge fort for the local noble family. The rectangular fortification wall, its entrance tower and the donjon having residential function survived the centuries. Today the bells floor built in 1879 and covered with the distinctive pointed spire, flanked by four corner turrets stands over the vaulted lower floors of the tower. The noble castle was later taken over by the community, which built the old school in the precincts. Another important building is the Gothic parish church nearby, which was rebuilt in Baroque style after destruction and has a valuable Baroque altar. It is also possible to visit the ruins of the originally fortified Romanesque church on the hill near the Evangelic cemetery.

The Garder church is a long church built by the builder Andreas Keitel in 1881 according to the same designs as the church in Oppegård, but the church in Garder is slightly larger than the church in Oppegård. Christen Brun painted the altarpiece as a copy of the altarpiece in the church in Tyristrand.

The church of Garmo is a typical long church with a tower to the west. The church hall underwent several modifications in 1938-40. Then the windows of the choir were moved and the choir of 1828 was restored.