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The Karuna church was built in 1908-1910 with Karuna's gray granite. The architectural style is national romanticism. The building is often venerated as one of the most beautiful national romantic churches of Finland.

Karup Church is a long church in late Gothic style, probably dating from the second half of the 15th century. In the Middle Ages, Karup was a place of pilgrimage famous for its sacred spring, where pilgrims and the sick flocked in large numbers, making rich donations to the church. A hospital was also attached to the church. After the Reformation, the pilgrimage ceased and thus the economic basis for the maintenance of the church also disappeared. The church fell into ruins and in 1744 it was bought by a lord. Today, only the main part of the main nave has been preserved.

The Karup church began to be built in the second half of the 12th century. It is built in Romanesque style in stone blocks and consists of a choir, nave and porch. The church, without a tower, has retained most of its original appearance.

Karuse Church is a fortified church from the 13th century. In the 16th century, a tower was built next to the church. The chancel built by Christian Ackermann dates from 1697. The oldest gravestones in the church cemetery date back to the middle of the 13th century.

Because of its height, Katarina Church is a church that occupies an important place in the Stockholm cityscape. Built for the first time in 1695, it has since suffered two fires in 1723 and in 1990 (which it did not recover until 1995). The building is now protected by the Cultural Environment Act.

The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. According to epigraphic data, it already existed in the 1870s. First, it appears on Russian topographic maps of the 1880s. The cemetery was still operating in the first half of the 20th century.

St. Katharinen Church is a Protestant church in Frankfurt am Main. The Baroque building was built from 1678 to 1681 and rebuilt between 1950 and 1954 after being destroyed during the Second World War.

Former Roman Catholic St. Olaf's Monastery. Since 1981 this complex has been part of the Syriac Orthodox Church of St. Ephrem.

The St. Bavo Cathedral was built in three phases between 1895 and 1930. The city of Haarlem received a bishop's seat in 1559. The current Grote or St. Bavo Church on the Grote Markt served as a cathedral from then on. Since the Reformation, that church has been in the hands of the Protestants.

The current St. John's Cathedral was built in the period 1280-1550 and initially served as a parish church. When the Diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch was founded in 1559, the church became a cathedral. Incidentally, the cathedral does not belong to the oldest parish on the current territory of 's-Hertogenbosch. That is the parish of St. Salvator in Orthen, which was founded before 1280. In the thirteenth century, the people of 's-Hertogenbosch were still dependent on the parish of Orthen. Around 1280, construction began on a separate parish church, which would later develop into the current cathedral.