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Jar church is a modernist brick church built in 1961. The architects of the church are Dagfinn Morseth, Mads Wiel Gedde and Peer Qvam.

Jasna Góra is a sanctuary and a monastery founded in 1382 by Vladislaus II of Opole. The Duke installed the icon of the Black Madonna there in 1384, which thousands of pilgrims still come to venerate every year. Jasna Góra is seen as a symbol of Polish identity as one of the main pilgrimage centres of the country, but also as a fortified complex (since 1621) that defended Poland against foreign armies.

Jazak Monastery was founded in 1736. This is one of the 16 surviving Orthodox monasteries built between the 15th and 18th centuries on the Fruška Gora mountain in Serbia (also known as the Serbian Mount Athos).

A Jehovah's Witness meeting hall.

A church built by Jehovah's witnesses as a meeting place.

The building is located in the northern part of the town.

The church in Jelsa is said to have been completed in 1647 and to have replaced an earlier stave church on the same site. In the 1850s, the church underwent a major restoration and received a sacristy to the east of the choir and external table covers. In 1871 the west tower was demolished and replaced by a vestry and octagonal turret. In the 1950s the church was restored and much of the 17th-century interior and fittings were restored.

The church in Jeløy was consecrated on 27 April 1975. The altarpiece and the back wall are stained glass windows by Victor Sparre. It is considered to be one of Sparre's most beautiful and important works.

Jerpoint Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey, founded in the 1160s. In 1540 Jerpoint, like all British abbeys, was closed when the monasteries were dissolved. Jerpoint was then one of the wealthiest Cistercian abbeys in Ireland, but comparable in size to the smaller Cistercian establishments in England. Thanks to the passive attitude of the owners after the dissolution, the monastery was in a relatively good state of preservation until the 19th century. Jerpoint Abbey is notable for its 15th century stone carvings of animals, plants and figures. The best-preserved part of the building is the east wing.

The church of Jerusalem and the house of Adornes are part of the same complex built by the Genoese Adornes family at the end of the 15th century. The brick church, designed as a funeral chapel for the Adornes family, takes its inspiration from the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.