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Lejlek Mosque is an Ottoman historic mosque in Novi Pazar. Its name "Lejlek" refers to the storks that nest in the minaret. The mosque has a square shape and an entrance with a porch with three arches.

Leka Church is a long church dating from 1867. The Husby Church has been a church site in Leka since 1634. The main treasures of the church are five 18th century tempera paintings and a 16th-century Dutch altarpiece.

The Leksand was built in the 13th century. The current building was built between 1709 and 1715. It has a rare onion dome, influenced by Russian architecture. The church has 2300 seats and is, therefore, one of the largest rural churches in Sweden.

The Lekstraat Synagogue dates from 1937 and is the last synagogue built in Amsterdam before the Second World War. The design is by architect Abraham Elzas (1907-1995) and dates from 1932. Elzas worked with and was influenced by Le Corbusier (Paris). This is reflected in the Lekstraat Synagogue, which was built in the style of the New Objectivity.

The church in Leksvik is a wooden church dating from 1667. The church has a long plan and was designed by the architects John and Elling Olsen Hindrum and Nils Olufsen. In the 1850s and 60s, the church was restored inside. Much of the church's inventory was taken away or destroyed, some parts were kept in an attic in the church. In the 1950s and 60s, the church was restored. Then the old things that had been hidden for 80 years were taken back and put back into the church.

In 1788, Juozas Pomernackas, the owner of Leliunai manor, built the second Leliunai church. It was about 28 meters long, about 12 meters wide, in the shape of a cross, with a small tower. The land on which the church now stands was once donated by the landlord Butler. Over time, the old wooden church began to fall apart. New Church built in 1905.

The mosque is located centrally in the old village centre. According to Bağişkan, the current building was erected in 1901. After 1974, the property and garden were used by an artist as a summer art school.

Lemland Church is one of the oldest religious buildings in Finland, dating from the end of the 13th century. The foundations of the bell tower suggest that it was built between 1311 and 1316. On the north side, the main room is connected to a sacristy, probably inherited from the middle of the 15th century. The whitewashed wall paintings were restored at one point and were exhibited during a restoration in 1952-1958. The oldest limestone paintings date from around 1300.

Lempäälä Church, or St. Birgita Church, is a medieval greystone church built around 1502-1505. Many changes have been made to the church, the most important of which was in 1835-1838, when the church was changed from a single nave to a cruciform church due to the growing population of the parish. The church was then renovated to a greater extent than the interior in 1895 and in the 1920s. The last major renovation was completed in 1984.

The church of Lemu is a medieval stone church dedicated to St. Olaf. It was probably built between 1460 and 1480. The present neoclassical wooden bell tower of the church, dating from 1812, is located on the north-eastern side of the church. The old bell tower, built in the 1570s, had fallen into ruin at the turn of the 18th century when plans for the present bell tower began to be drawn up. Next to the Lemu church is the homeland museum called Kemppien tupa. The museum is housed in a former parish warehouse built in 1858.