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Mega Spileo Monastery is one of the largest monasteries in the Peloponnese and Greece. It is 10th kilometres from Kalavrita.

The Mehamn church is a brick church built in 1965. The architect of the church is Hans Magnus.

This is the largest and oldest Ottoman mosque still standing in the city of Serres.

This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Meissen Cathedral is, together with Albrechtsburg Castle, the highest point in the city. The present building was erected from 1250 on the site of a former cathedral dating from the end of the 10th century. Today's cathedral is built according to a Gothic church plan. The choir and cloister were finished in 1268. The stained glass windows of the choir were installed around 1270. The chapel of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine was completed to the east in 1280, the octagonal chapel of Saint-Jean-Baptiste in 1291 and the majestic chapter house in 1297. It was not until 1410 that the nave was completed. The cathedral passed to the Protestant Reformation in 1581.

The Dede Sipahi Mosque is centrally located in the old settlement area. The mosque as well as the school right next door seem to have been built around 1910 at about the same time. The mosque was thus a successor to a mosque that had already been built on the same site in Ottoman times.

The church of Agios Polychronios was built in 1868 and is located on the eastern edge of the original settlement area. After 1974, the church was converted into a mosque (" Adaçay Köyü Camii") and used until a new mosque was built in the village in the 2000s. After that, the building was abandoned and left to its own devices.

The Meland church is a long wooden church dating from 1866. It was designed by Johannes Arnesson Øvsthus and erected under the direction of the builder Askild Aase. The church of Meland is the only church in the municipality.

In the course of the village's history, at least two mosques existed. According to the cadastral map, the old mosque was located in the centre of the village. Nothing is known about its fate. Today there no traces of this building left. The story behind the new mosque, located at the western entrance to the village right next to the Agios Nikolaos church, is also not clear. Bagiskan mentions that this was a school building that was later reused as a mosque. Based on the construction, it seems to be a newer building, rebuilt after the severe earthquake of 1953.

The Melbu church is a wooden church inaugurated in 1938. The architect of the church was Harald Sund. On this site, an old medieval chapel, probably in the form of a stave church, fell into disuse before 1694.