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Built as a Reformed Church, architect Roelof Kuipers, 1894. Renovated 1912-1913 under the leadership of Tjeerd Kuipers.

Hofskirkja Church is one of the last "turf churches" in Iceland. Built in 1884, the church is now preserved by the National Museum but is still used by parishioners for worship.

The name Höftekerk comes from the location of the church. The church is located on a homestead, a farm with a walled courtyard. The homestead was built in the 17th century by the Van Höfte family. The church was built in 1889 on the site of the old homestead.

Hogrän Church is one of the 92 medieval churches on the island of Gotland.

Hohen Thekla Church is a Romanesque church dating back to the 12th century. It was successively destroyed during the Thirty Years War, the Napoleonic wars and later because of a fire (1959). In 1962, the church was finally rebuilt.

The Hol Church is a wooden cruciform-shaped church built in 1806. A church in Hol is mentioned in written sources as early as the middle of the 14th century. The present building was restored in 1860. The present organ in Hol Church dates from 1986.

Hol Church is a long church from 1924, designed by the architect Ole Stein. In 1953 the church received stained glass windows by the artist Thorvald L. Ravn. The pulpit and baptismal font are from 1924 and were designed by Hans Borgersen.

The old church of Hol has been rebuilt and altered several times. The sacristy to the east of the choir is the oldest part of the church. Originally, the whole church was a Stave church. The first change was the wooden extension that now forms the narrower western part of the church nave, probably from the 16th century. In 1697 the church was given a new, larger choir and apse, but in 1798-99 these parts of the building, including the part of the nave built in a moat, were demolished.

The building history of the old church in Holdhus is not clear. There was probably a Stave church here which was rebuilt between 1722-26 to its present appearance. The church has undergone several alterations and the last major restoration was in 1905-1906. In the 1720s Christian W. Segelken bought the church and it remained in private ownership until 1876 when it was given as a gift to the congregation. In 1889 it was sold for demolition to the hotelier Hans Holdhus, who in turn sold it to the Association for the Preservation of Old Norwegian Monuments in 1900.

The Hole church was built in the Middle Ages as a long stone church. In the 17th century the church was extended with a wooden part to the west, but in the 18th century this part, together with the choir and sacristy, was demolished and replaced by three wooden arms and the sacristy to the east. After a thunderbolt in 1943, the church burned down, leaving only the stone walls in the medieval part of the church. The church was rebuilt according to the plans of the architect Finn Bryn, and was completed in 1950.