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Hilandar Monastery is one of the 20 self-governing Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Mount Athos. It is also the only Serbian Orthodox monastery on the peninsula. It is ranked fourth in the Athonite, the hierarchical order of the twenty monasteries on Mount Athos.

St. Mary of the Ascension Cathedral in Hildesheim was founded 872. Almost completely rebuilt in the 1950s in its original Romanesque style, its walls and treasury are now listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Baroque interior design of the cathedral was the work of Justus Wehmer (1690-1750). During the Second World War, the cathedral was almost completely destroyed and was rebuilt between 1950 and 1960. The site of the cathedral is famous for a curiosity that can be seen on the outside of the buildings: the "thousand-year-old rose bush". This rosebush grows against an apse in the inner courtyard of the cloister. The exact age of the rosebush has not yet been estimated.

Hildre church is a wooden church build in 1934 and designed by architect Otto Hald.

The Hill Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Ieud (to be distinguished from the Valley church in the same village) was built by the local noble family Balea at the beginning of the 17th century. The church's interior wall paintings are renowned for their quality and were restored between 2007 and 2009.

Pseudo-basilica from the 15th century with a tower built in on three sides and a single-nave choir. Internal wooden barrel vaults and slender columns with moulded capitals. Pulpit from 1631. Organ by Abraham Meere from 1830, reconstructed in 1982-1984 by Leeflang Orgelbouw (Apeldoorn) and extended with free pedal. 17th-century copper crowns.

The church in Hillestad is a long church dating from 1724. It replaced a stave church from the Middle Ages. The tower and the sacristy were rebuilt in 1911. A large part of the inventory comes from the stave church, and a larger part is in the Oslo University Antiquities Collection.

Hillesøy church is a wooden church dating from 1889, although there has been a church on Hillesøy since the Middle Ages. Among the treasures inside the church are two German altarpieces from around 1500.

Hillevåg Church is a "working church" built in two stages with two consecrations: one in October 1961 and one in March 1993. The façade is made of concrete and wood.

Hillside Church, also known as the All Saints Church, was built in 1939 by Canon Stevenson. Since then, the church has occupied an important place in the community.

According to legend, the monastery of Hîncu was built by the Moldavian boyar Mihalcea Hîncu (17th century) after he and his daughter Paraschiva escaped from the Tartars. During his escape, he had sworn to build a monastery if they escaped. The monastery is now in the place where the escape succeeded. It was not until 1835 that the monastery, until then mainly made of wood, was equipped with stone buildings. From 1956 to 1990, the monastery was closed by the Soviet Union and the site was used as a recreation centre by the Ministry of Health. Since its reopening, the monastery has undergone extensive repairs.