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Gravvik church is a wooden church built in 1875. The architect of the church is Knut Grudt Laugen.

This is the chapel of one of the four Inns of Court. It is on the site of the chapel built in 1315, and rebuilt in the 1960s following destruction in the Second World War.

Graz Cathedral is a late Gothic building built in the 15th century under Frederick III. It was raised to the rank of cathedral only in 1786. The cathedral forms with the adjacent imperial mausoleum, the castle and the Schauspielhaus the "Grazer Stadtkrone".

The Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Blood, or Grazer Stadtpfarrkirche, was built in 1440 and given to the Dominican Order a quarter of a century after its completion. After the expulsion of the Dominicans, it became a parish church in 1585.

Greåker church is a wooden church built in 1974. The architect of this modernist church is Aksel Fronth.

This synagogue is considered to be the first synagogue in the Netherlands which was recognizable as such by its exterior. It was constructed in 1670/71 and its design is attributed to the architect Elias Bouman. The plan of the building is almost square-shaped. The wooden vaulted roof and the women's gallery were supported by four large columns. The bimah was located at the center of the interior which faced the monumental Torah ark. The small rectangular building at the corner of the street originally a mikveh. A neoclassical entrance with its triangular pediments was later added to this building around the year 1822/23. During the Second World War, the synagogue was closed down in 1943 and was subsequently looted. The municipality of Amsterdam bought the complex, including the New Synagogue, Obbene Shul, and Dritt Shul in 1954. After several renovations of the synagogue complex (1966, 1976/87), the buildings were redeveloped as the Joods Historisch Museum (Jewish Historical Museum).

The Great Basilica of Pliska is a ruined early Christian church from the 9th century, in northeastern Bulgaria. It was built by order of Boris I, knyaz (ruler) of the First Bulgarian Empire, of which Pliska was the capital. Today it is part of the Pliska National Historical and Archeological Reserve. Boris I was also responsilbe for the conversion of Bulgaria to Christianity.

The Great Beguinage of Sint-Amandsberg was built in 1873-1874 when the former Great Beguinage of Sint-Elisabeth in the centre of Ghent was abandoned. The new beguinage was designed by architect Arthur Verhaegen. Baron Jean-Baptiste de Bethune designed the church of the beguinage. It was built in two years at a fast pace. It is the only neo-gothic beguinage in Flanders.

The Great Choral Synagogue of Riga is an Ashkenazi synagogue built between 1868 and 1871 by the architect Paul von Hardenak. The stone synagogue, now used as a memorial, displays a romantic historicist style.

The Great Choral Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in Kyiv, built in 1895 in a Moorish revival style. Its construction was financed by Gabriel Yakob Rozenberg, a merchant.