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The Måsøy church from 1953 is a long concrete church. The church was designed by architect Eyvind Moestue and has the same main form as the old wooden church from 1865. The old church was burned by the Germans during the evacuation of Finnmark in 1944, as were the other churches in Måsøy. The new church is located about 100 metres south of the old church site.

Matelica Cathedral was first built in the historic heart of the city. It fell into ruin when the bishop's seat disappeared and was demolished in 1530. In the middle of the 15th century, it was replaced by the Church of Santa Maria della Piazza, which later became a cathedral named after Santa Maria Assunta in 1785.

The Cathedral of Matera was built between 1230 and 1270, with stones extracted from the nearby quarries of Vaglia. It has kept its original Pugliese Romanesque style. It mixes Norman, Lombard and slightly oriental influences. The interior was refurbished in the 16th and 17th centuries with a Baroque touch.

The mosque is located in the middle of the old village centre. It is unknown when the mosque was built. Bağişkan assumes that the building dates from the Ottoman period. Extensive renovation work took place in 1882.

The Mathon Expositurkirche was built between 1674 and 1682 and enlarged in 1763. The church was renovated in 1881 and consecrated in 1894. The neo-Romanesque style of the church dates from this renovation.

The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown, but according to the dates on the preserved gravestones, it can be assumed that the cemetery emerged in the early 19th century. The cemetery was fenced.

In Breda-Noord there is currently one Roman Catholic church in use: the Sint-Franciscuskerk (1968, S. Steeneken). On 1 January 1994, the St. Franciscus parish, together with the parishes of Christus Koning, Heilig Kruis, Goede Herder and Menswording, became the Breda-Noord parish with one church council. Three of the churches involved in this merger have since been demolished: the Heilig Kruiskerk (closed 01-12-1999, demolished June 2000), the Goede Herderkerk (closed 1983, then a sports hall, demolished April 2003), the Christus Koningkerk (closed 27-11-1999, demolished March 2003). The Menswordingkerk from 1983 has been in use by the CGK since 2001 and has since been called the Mattheuskerk.

The Matthias Church was founded in the 13th century after the Tartar invasion (1255-1269). Extended in the 14th century in a Gothic church-hall, it was equipped with a bell tower and an oratory in the 15th century. Partly destroyed and transformed into a mosque during the Turkish occupation (1541-1699), it was later occupied by monastic orders which restored it in a Baroque style. A complete restoration carried out in 1873-1896 gave the church its current neo-Gothic style.

The Mauerbach Charterhouse is a former Carthusian monastery in the Austrian town of Mauerbach, on the outskirts of Vienna. The monastery's premises now house the restoration workshops of the Austrian Federal Office for Monuments.

The monastery church, built at the end of the 10th century, was destroyed in 1826 and the materials were used for the construction of the town hall. All the monastic buildings, of which only vestiges remain in constructions built after the Revolution, date back to the 11th and 12th centuries, with the exception of the cloister built in the 14th century to replace that of the 12th century.