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Historic church with a large spireless tower. Originally dedicated to Saint George.

Jostedal Church is a long wooden church that was completed in 1660 and is the second known church in the town. The first was probably a stave church that was built in the Middle Ages, perhaps in the 13th century.

It is believed that the monastery of Jovanje existed before the battle of Kosovo in 1389. However, the present monastery was built in 1957 after the construction of Lake Medjuvrsje. The former church dedicated to St. John the Baptist was flooded during the construction of the hydroelectric power plant and Lake Medjuvrsje.

New Dutch Reformed Church of Assen from 1848. Tower was rebuilt after fire in 1910. The interior of the church was drastically redecorated in the mid-1980s.

Jozefow Jewish Cemetery is a historic burial site located in the town of the same name. About 400 tombstones or their fragments have been preserved in the cemetery.

The jubilee church was consecrated in 2001 by Pope John Paul II. The white cement church was designed by the famous architect Richard Meier who wished, in a symbolic way, to give it the shape of a boat with three sails.

The Jerusalem Synagogue, also known as the Jubilee Synagogue, was built between 1905 and 1906 in Moorish and Art Nouveau styles to replace the synagogues that were demolished during the reconstruction of the Jewish ghetto in Prague. The name "Jubilee" commemorates the 50th anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph I's accession to the throne.

The Juditten Church is today an Orthodox church whose official name is the Church of St. Nicholas. Founded in 1288, it is the oldest surviving building in Kaliningrad and a testimony to early Germanic Gothic architecture. Immediately after the evacuation of the city by the Germans in 1945, the church was destroyed by settlers from the USSR. In the early 1980s, it was decided to hand over the ruins of the Juditten Church to the Russian Orthodox Church for its restoration and opening. On 6 October 1985, the church was consecrated, but restoration work continued until 1990.

The Julebygda Chapel was built in brick in 1957. The design of the chapel was inspired by the drawings of Valdemar Scheel Hansteen.

Important interbellum church, with old tower and later, after war damage, a new tower built in different forms.