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The Melhus church, also known as the Gauldals Cathedral, is a stone church dating from 1892. The church is first mentioned in 1533. It is a long church which is thought to have been started just before 1150. The church was demolished in 1890, but three of the four portals were rebuilt into the present church.

The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. It was established no later than the late 19th century, as the earliest preserved tombstone dates to 1892.

Melk Abbey was founded in 1089 when Leopold II, Margrave of Austria, donated one of his castles to the Benedictine monks of Lambach Abbey. In the 12th century, a school was founded here and the abbey library soon became famous for its extensive collection of manuscripts. In the 15th century, the monastery became the centre of the reform movement known as the "Melk Reform", which helped to invigorate monastic life in Austria and southern Germany. The present Baroque abbey was built between 1702 and 1736 by the architect Jakob Prandtauer. The abbey church with its frescoes by Johann Michael Rottmayr and the library with its innumerable medieval manuscripts are particularly impressive.

Mellifont Abbey was founded in 1142 on the initiative of Archbishop Malachie d'Armagh and Bernard of Clairvaux as a filiation of the Clairvaux monastery. The architect, Robert, came from France. The abbey was built entirely in the Gothic style of northern France and was totally atypical for Ireland at that time. Mellifont Abbey became the model for other Cistercian monasteries in Ireland and remained the largest abbey in Ireland even after its sacking in 1494 until its suppression in 1539.

The estimated period of the cemetery’s establishment dates back to the 16th and 17th centuries, accompanying the emergence of the local Jewish community. By September 3, 1942, all the Jews of Mel’nytsya had been executed and the cemetery sites were abandoned. At least three gravestones are preserved.

According to epigraphic data, the cemetery existed aready in 1795. It appears on maps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire of the 1880s. It was used until 1900s, when a new cemetery was opened.

The church in Melum dates from 1728 but a church has existed in Melum since at least 1354. In the 1720s, Frederick IV of Denmark chose to sell the churches in Lower Telemark, which had belonged to the Crown since the Reformation. At that time the church in Melum was in such a bad state that it had to be demolished. A new church was built by the locals, and in 1737 the church was sold. In 1854, the church finally became the property of the municipality.

Meløy church is a neo-Gothic wooden church from 1867. The first church is said to have existed already in the 15th century, replaced in the 1660s and later in 1708-1711 after a fire. As the church of 1711 was too small in the second half of the 19th century, a new church was designed in 1864 with a capacity of 750 seats.

The Old Synagogue of Chemnitz was inaugurated in 1899. It operated until its destruction during the Night of Broken Glass in 1938. The building, designed by Wenzel Bürger, had a Neo-Romanesque style with an eight-sided crossing dome. Today, a stele commemorates the place where the historic synagogue once stood.

The Memorial Synagogue in Gyöngyös is an Ashkenazi synagogue completed in 1813 by architect Károly Rábel. This Neo-Classical brick building now serves as an office.