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The motorway church in Windach on the A 96 is a tent-shaped church. The construction by the Munich architect Josef Wiedemann serves primarily as a parish church. The simultaneous use as a motorway church was an obvious choice due to its proximity to the A 96 motorway. Inside, the light wood panelling of the roof creates a warm atmosphere. At the centre of the dodecagonal floor plan is the altar, around which chairs are arranged in a circle.

The Motorway Church of Medenbach is a church located on the service area of Medenbach-West on the A 3 Cologne-Frankfurt motorway. The church was designed by the Hessian architect Hans Waechter and was consecrated on 30 March 2001. The motorway church is designed as a low building made of lightweight exposed concrete, surrounded by arcades and courtyard walls. The chapel has exposed brick masonry inside and out.

Former royal chapel, which became a church in the 13th century. It was restored in the 19th century.

Set amid woodland in North Yorkshire, this unusual monastery is the best preserved Carthusian priory in Britain. Mount Grace Priory is the perfect tourist attraction for a relaxing and peaceful day out. Discover how the monks lived 600 years in the reconstructed monk's cell and herb plot.

The church with the ekklesionym Apostolos Loukas was built at the beginning of the 20th century and is located in the western part of the original settlement core. The church was converted into a mosque after 1974 and was used until a new mosque was completed in the village (ca. 2017).

The mosque is located in the northern part of the old village centre. As Bağişkan reports, the building was originally a private house and was then converted into a mosque. There is no information about the exact time of the conversion. It can be speculated whether the move occurred because the old mosque had become unusable, as the current mosque is referred to as Jami Jedid (New Mosque) in the 1918 cadastral plans.

On a hill in the center of the village of Movile, there is a strong fortified church whose foundation stone was laid in the middle of the 13th century. Only the western tower and the walls of the church’s nave have been preserved from the former Romanesque construction. The church was fortified around the year 1500 in late Gothic style. Two fortification walls strengthened by several defence towers surrounded the ensemble. During the 19th century, under the pressure of an ever-growing community, the interior space of the church had to be enlarged by adding a gallery built on three sides.

Reformed church with front tower. Tower built in 1877-'78 in neo-Gothic style to a design by JH Hanninck in Goes, replacing an older example. The old church was replaced in 1908 by the current hall church, designed by J. Verheul Dzn. in Rotterdam. Romanesque and Gothic influences. The contractor was M. Allewijn in Waarde. New construction at the back of the church that does not qualify for protection.

The Orthodox monastery of Mraconia was built in 1523 on the site of a former observation and control point for ships on the Danube. Destroyed during the Russian-Austrian-Turkish war (1787 - 1792), it was later rebuilt but demolished by the communist regime in 1967. After 1989, the Metropolitan of Oltenia took the initiative to re-establish the monastery, and in 1993 the foundation stone of the new building was laid. The works were completed in 1999-2000.

Muckross Abbey, founded in 1448 as a monastery for the Franciscan friars, is today in a state of ruin. Looted several times in its history, the monastery was finally burnt down by Oliver Cromwell's troops in 1652. Today, the abbey, although it has no roof on most of it, is relatively well preserved. One of its curiosities is its vaulted cloister, in the Norman Romano-Gothic style, organised around an inner courtyard which houses a large yew tree several hundred years old, as in the abbey of Jumièges.