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The building of the kloyz was apparently built in the 1920s, when the Rebbe of Boyan, Menachem Nachum Friedman (1869-1936) settled in Chernivtsi. The Rebbe bought an existing house and erected the kloyz in the next plot of land. Thus, a structure of traditional Hasidic court, which unites Rebbe's house and his kloyz, was created in Chernivtsi. According to the memoirs by David Tal, a native of Chernivtsi, the prayer hall of the kloyz was decorated by the paintings of Zodiac signs, the symbols of the Tribes of Israel, Joseph with the sheaves, and the staff of Moses (Boris Khaimovich (Kiev, 2016), p. 48).

Klund church is a wooden church built in 1888. The architect of the church is J.W. Nordan.

Presumably, the Jewish Cemetery in Klyachanovo was established in the 19th century. According to epigraphic data, it already existed in 1840. The cemetery was used presumably until WWII, although the latest preserved gravestone date to 1930.

Klæbu Church is an octagonal wooden church dating from 1790 with a stone foundation wall. The ground plan is a slightly elongated octagon in the east-west direction, with the altarpiece at the eastern end.

The Knarvik church is a wooden church completed in 2014 by Reiulf Ramstad Architects. The exterior of the building features the sharply raised spire roofs, the church sanctuary and the chapel.

The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. Given the cemetery appears on the Russian topographic map of 1860s. it can be inferred it was founded before that era. The oldest preserved tombstone dates to the late 19th century.

The Kocatepe Mosque, which opened in 2008, is the largest mosque in Bavaria. In the classic Ottoman dome-shaped style, the building has two 27.5-metre high minarets. The mosque also houses a cultural centre.

The Kodal Church is a Romanesque church first mentioned in 1339, but is thought to date back to around 1100. The choir, which is the oldest part of the church, was built in the 12th century, while the nave dates from 1691.

It is not known when the Kodža Mehmet Beg Mosque was first built, but it is assumed that a building may have existed here as early as 1380. According to the stylistic features and construction methods, the present building was constructed in the so-called classical period of Ottoman construction in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The mosque is a single domed building, square-based, with a porch on the northwest side.

The former mosque is the oldest building of its kind in Sofia. The mosque with its squared plan has nine domes of equal diameter. They are supported by pointed arches and covered with leaden sheets. The middle ones are higher and ‘the entire space, through a special system of domes and arches, is an absolutely symmetrical construction, and it’s on this symmetry, harmony and equality among all its parts, that the major artistic effect is due. During the Russian-Turkish War (1877-1878) the mosque was turned into a hospital. Later it was a library, museum and printing house, and since 1892 it has housed the National Archaeological Institute With Museum .