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The Great Mosque of Paris is one of the largest mosques in France and the first built on the metropolitan territory. It was inaugurated in 1926 to honour the Muslim soldiers who defended France during the First World War.

The Grand Temple of Nîmes was built as a Dominican convent church between 1714 and 1736. During the Revolution, the Dominicans abandoned it. The disused church was then rented by the Protestants and inaugurated by the pastor Paul Rabaut. In 1803, the church was officially assigned to Protestant worship and took the name of Grand Temple. In 1821, the temple organs were built.

The Grand'Église or church of Saint-Étienne and Saint-Laurent is said to have existed since the 5th century in the form of a chapel. In 1310, a bequest from Jocerand d'Urgel, Lord of Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, allowed the reconstruction of the church of Saint-Etienne-de-Furan in its present form. The church is built in the Forézien Gothic style in sandstone and has a flamboyant Gothic choir. It has three naves with five bays and a transept.

The Grande Chartreuse Monastery is the first monastery as well as the mother house of the hermit monks of the Carthusian order. The legend of the foundation of the monastery tells that a group of several monks, guided by Bishop Hugues de Grenoble (1080 to 1132), settled in June 1084 in the Chartreuse valley. Since the 19th century, the Grande-Chartreuse community has been known to oversee the production of the popular Chartreuse liqueur.

The Great Synagogue of Marseille, long called the Great Temple, was built from the plans of Nathan Salomon in 1860. The first stone was laid on July 15, 1863 and the inauguration took place on September 22, 1864 in the presence of the city authorities.

The Grane church is a long church dating from 1860. It was built in wood by the architects Andreas Grendestad and Andreas Nilsskog.

Before the present church, Gransherad had a stave church dating from the 1300s which was demolished in 1849. The church in Gransherad was erected by the builder Halvor Andreas Olsen according to a drawing by the castle architect H.D.F. Linstow and consecrated on September 11, 1849. The vestry dates back to the 1930s.

The church in Granvin is a long wooden church dating from 1726. It replaces the Granvin Stave church which had to be demolished due to decay in the 1720s. The first time Granvinskyrkja is mentioned in written sources is in 1306.

The Gratangen church is a modernist church from 1971, built by the architect Oskar Norderval. The building has a low, flat roof, but two triangular, vertical concrete slabs rise up like a sail. Between the slabs hang the church bells.

Gravberget church is a wooden church with a characteristic pyramidal shape and an almost square plan, built in 1955 according to the plans of the architect Magnus Poulsson.