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The Hurum Church is a medieval stone church with a rectangular nave and a lower, narrower choir with a semicircular end, the apse, to the east. In front of the west entrance is a wooden bell tower. At the foot of the tower is a porch. The church was renovated after a fire in 1686, and in 1849 it was extensively rebuilt. However, the present tower dates from 1885. The brick chapel of the Huitfeldt family was built north of the nave in 1750.

Húsavíkurkirkja is a wooden church with strong characteristics of the so-called Swiss-style (inspired by rural chalets in Switzerland). The architect Rögnvaldur Ólafsson designed the church, which was consecrated in 1907.

This mosque was completed in 1594 and to this day has the highest minaret of any mosque in the Balkans. It was named after Husein Pasha Boljanic, who was born not far from Pljevlja. The mosque contains a low pitched dome, an open porch with three domes, and several rich polychrome motifs on the interior. The minaret was rebuilt after a lightning strike destroyed the original in 1911.

Husejnija Mosque was built in 1826 by Husein-captain Gradaščević, a Bosnian captain who fought for the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Ottoman Empire. It has been declared a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The church in Husnes is a log church dating from 1874. The church was restored by Torgeir Alvsaker and Einard Vaardal-Lunde in 1960. In 1974 the church was repainted according to the plans of Peter Helland-Hansen.

The Hussein-Shah Mosque was built by Hussein Shah in the middle of the 16th century. Construction began in 1553 and was completed in 1566. The mosque has been damaged several times. First during the fire of Skopje by the Habsburg army in 1689, then during the Bulgarian occupation during the Second World War, as well as during the Skopje earthquake. After that, a number of conservation efforts were undertaken, which considerably changed the appearance of the mosque.

The Hustad Church is a long church with a single nave dating from 1875. The architect of the church was Jacob Wilhelm Nordan and it was built by the builder Jacob Digre. The present church is the third church in Hustad. The first was a stave church which burned down in 1718.

Hustad Church is a medieval stone church built between 1130 and 1160. When a new church was built in the parish in 1887, the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments took over Hustad Church, which has remained unchanged and intact with building elements and an interior dating back several centuries. The church consists of a nave, a straight choir to the east and a porch to the west.

The Husøy church was designed by the architect Erik Eikrann and was consecrated in 1933. The church has an unusual facade material with dark red syenite stone. The interior is executed in simplified classicism with the influence of functionalism.

Husøy church is a long church from 1896. Kirøyna took over as a church town after Utvær, where there had probably been a chapel since the 12th century.