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The Gazi Husrev-bey Mosque, a landmark of Sarajevo, was built in 1531 in a classical ottoman architecture. The building is on the list of national monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Gazi Mihal Mosque was founded in 1422 and was originally part of a larger complex of buildings, of which only the baths remain. Located close to the river, the Gazi Mihal Mosque was severely damaged by the flooding of the Tunca River in 1953. As a result, it was closed to worship for 45 years until its restoration in 1998.

The church of Geamăna was built in the first half of the 18th century and is decorated with paintings inside. Today, only the church tower is visible. Indeed, the village of Geamăna is 100 metres below the surface of a lake which contains the highly toxic ore dumps of the copper mine of Roșia Poieni active since 1977.

Chapel-like building. The building of the Grail Movement was built in 1952 and later renovated several times. The most recent renovation dates from 2008. The Grail Movement is a free association of people who hold meetings here, called consecration hours. The starting point of the (international) Grail Movement are the publications of Abd-ru-shin (pen name of Oskar Ernst Bernhardt): In the Light of Truth, Grail Message.

The Assembly of Believers took a new church into use on the Hantumerweg in January 2003. Before 2003, the Assembly of Believers met in the old tax building that had been converted into a church. (49-03/50-03)

The Gedachteniskerk (Memorial Church) in Aarlanderveen was built in 1969, replacing a former church building.

Neo-Gothic hall church without tower. With new porch.

Geden Sheddup Monastery is a monastery of Tibetan Buddhism which opened in 1996. It is the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery to be built in the area since it became an autonomous oblast in 1920. The monastery is also the first place of Buddhist worship in the Kalmykia Republic since Joseph Stalin ordered the destruction of all Buddhist temples and monasteries during the 1930s.

The Geertekerk was built between 1248-1400, after the Reformation it was successively used as a Reformed church, stable, barracks, warehouse and from 1814 to 1930 again as a Reformed church. In a ruinous state at the end of the 1940s, the building was completely restored from 1954 to 1956.

Dutch Reformed Church. Building consisting of early and late Gothic parts. The oldest part is a straight-ended chapel on the north side of the choir, with remarkable window tracery. The chapel of the church separated by two arches, resting on a column with characteristics of the Scheldt Gothic, mid-13th century. The brick choir, example of Flemish Gothic, 13th century. 15th century nave, originally three-aisled, changed around 1500 and made into one nave.