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Historic village church with tower. The church was built around 1250. The tower dates from the 14th century. The relatively low tower is unarticulated. The pyramid-shaped roof of the tower dates from the 19th century. In the 15th century, the windows in the southern church wall were replaced by Gothic pointed arch windows. In the interior, various paintings from the 15th century have been preserved on the vaults. (Source: [1]

The Janskerk was founded shortly after 1040. It was one of the five college churches of Utrecht in the Middle Ages (the others were the Dom, the Salvatorkerk, the Pieterskerk church and Maria). The building was restored in 1977-1981.

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.