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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.

Gravina Cathedral dates back to the 11th century according to the monk historian Ferdinando Ughelli in his work Italia Sacra (1721). This first church was destroyed between 1447 and 1456, first by a fire and then by an earthquake that devastated the whole area. The reconstruction lasted thirty years and was carried out by Bishop Matteo D'Aquino (1482-1508). Between the 17th and 18th centuries, its interior underwent various Baroque interventions. Today the church is a synthesis of different architectural styles: late Romanesque, Renaissance and Baroque.

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.