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It is thought that in the 12th century a stone church or chapel already stood on the site of the current, 14th-century cruciform church. It is an imposing building with characteristic features of the transition from Romanesque architecture to Gothic: high arches, pointed windows, but also round windows, decorative masonry and round bars around the windows.

Jaén Cathedral was built from 1249 on the ruins of an old mosque. It was damaged and rebuilt several times over the next two centuries until the 16th century, when several architects, including Andrés de Vandelvira, enlarged it. It was consecrated in 1724. Its magnificent Renaissance façade was designed by Eufrasio López de Rojas (1628-1684) and sculpted by Pedro Roldán (1624-1699).

There is no information about the existence of an organized Jewish community in Jagodnjak. The abandoned Jewish cemetery has five tombstones. The oldest grave dates from 1897 and the latest from 1902.

The beautiful Jain Temple has completely been built according to old religious traditions. The construction of the building started in India in 1990 and it took ten years to finish. Afterwards, everything was dismantled and shipped to Belgium. Once it arrived in Wilrijk, the whole building was rebuilt. This process took another ten years. Finally, the temple opened its door in 2010. It is said that this is the largest Jain Temple outside of India.

The Jakobuskirche, also called Spitalkirche, is a Romanesque church first mentioned in 1377, built around 1200 as a Romanesque chapel. It was rebuilt in its present form from 1500. After the secularisation of 1806, the church was used by both Catholics and Protestants, but from the 1870s onwards, it became a purely Protestant church again. The relatively dark neo-Gothic windows in the chancel were replaced in 1975 by much brighter windows decorated with roses, designed by Gisela Dreher-Richels.

The Yakovali Hasan Pasa Mosque (Hungarian: Jakovali Hasszan dzsamija, Turkish: Yakovali Hasan Pasa Camii) is a late 16th-century mosque in Pecs, southern Hungary. It was constructed when the region was part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, around the same time as the main mosque of Pecs, the Mosque of Pasha Qasim (which has since been consecrated as a cathedral). It was named after the local government official who commissioned the mosque, Yakovali Hasan Pasa (Hasan Pasa of Gjakova). It is thus one of the oldest mosques existing in Hungary today. The mosque is still active as a Muslim place of worship, and also houses a small exhibition centre for Turkish handicraft and historical artifacts documenting Hungary's Ottoman past.

In 1974, the Moluccan Evangelical Church in Oosterwolde split from the Moluccan National Protestant Church. Initially, the Moluccan church at the Schapekamp could still be used, but due to disagreement in the Moluccan community, this was no longer possible.

Jalska Mosque (Jalska džamija) is a 17th century mosque located on the left bank of the Jala river in Tuzla. It is also know as Kizler mosque, Djevojačka mosque and Hafiz Hanumina mosque.

Janja Monastery was probably built in the middle or end of the 15th century and was destroyed at the end of the 17th century. After 400 years, Janja Monastery was restored to its original appearance on 22 July 2012, the date of its consecration. The iconostasis and chandelier were painted by the icon and fresco painter M. Ivan Kovalčik Mileševac from Novi Sad.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, several people in Mijdrecht left the Reformed Church. They then went home to read a sermon on Sunday. Around 1920, weekly services were also held. In 1927, they joined the church association of the Reformed Congregations. Under the responsibility of the Reformed Congregation in Utrecht, services were then held on Sunday. In the same year, a small church building was built on the premises of the G. Den Hertog company at Bosenhoven 47. At the beginning of 1928, this church building was put into use by Rev. GH Kersten. On November 25, the congregation was instituted as an independent congregation within the church association of the Reformed Congregations. After Rev. R. Kok was suspended in 1950 (minister within the church association in Veenendaal), the congregation split in two. The part that continues to use the church building joins the church association of the Christian Reformed Churches and is officially included in the association of the Christian Reformed Churches by the Classis Utrecht on January 19, 1954, following a decision of the ll class meeting. The members who wish to remain with the Reformed Church only start using their own church building in 1966 , after having met at various locations for years.