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The Khalid Efendi Mosque was probably built in 1415. It was built with the contribution of the villagers and rebuilt several times during its existence, in 1936, 1969, 1987. In 1994, the entire mosque with the minaret was rebuilt.

The Khalil Bey Mosque was probably built in the early 16th century since it was mentioned in 1569. According to archaeological findings, a Byzantine church of Agia Paraskevi already existed on the site of the mosque. From 1926 until the Bulgarian occupation (1941-1944), the Municipal Philharmonic was installed there. After the war, the minaret was demolished in the 1950s. The building is now used as a music hall.

The Kharkiv Cathedral Mosque was first built in 1906, destroyed in 1936 by the Soviet authorities and rebuilt in 2006 on the same site. The construction of the first mosque was made necessary by the considerable growth of the Muslim community in Kharkiv in the second half of the 19th century. It is believed that this growth was due to the deployment of the Tatar-Bashkir cavalry in the city during the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878).

The exact date of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown, but it appears on cadastral maps from 1865. According to the dates on the found gravestones, it was functioning in the early 20th century. The cemetery was fenced by ESJF in 2017.

Presumably, the Jewish Cemetery in Kholmets’ was established in the 19th century. According to epigraphic data, it already existed in 1875. It was used at least until the 1910s. The latest preserved gravestone dates to 1906.

In the middle of the XIX century, the Minsk Diocesan Administration decided to build a new stone temple in the center of Rechitsa, which operated with short intervals until 1948. The temple was closed, the dome and the bell tower were demolished. The Orthodox community was allowed to rent a wooden building near the cemetery on the very outskirts of the city at 57 Kooperativenaya St. (now 11 Proletarsky Lane).

In 2001, the Vitebsk branch of "BelTIZ" handed over a one-storey chess club building for the arrangement of the temple. After the production of the design and estimate documentation, the altar part was added and the dome was built. In 2005, a part of the temple, a refectory and a bathroom were added. In 2006, due to the porch, the area of the temple increased 1.5 times. The construction of a bell tower is planned.

Kičevo monastery, formerly called Krninski monastery, was founded before the middle of the 16th century and in the 1570s a stone church was built on the site of the present church. In 1843, the monastery was burnt down by Albanians from Debar, but the church remained standing. The church was demolished by order of Hegumen Hadji Teodosius to build a new church and other monastery facilities. The icons of the present church were made between 1848 and 1880, many of them were created by the painter Ditscho Zograf.

Kielce Cathedral is a Baroque church built in the 18th century on a former Romanesque church dating from the 12th century. The church did not become a cathedral until 1805. The church, its chapel from 1760 and the bell tower from the middle of the 17th century have been entered in the register of real estate monuments. The cathedral also contains many movable monuments inside such as altars, chalices and monstrances.

The synagogue in Kielce was built from 1903 to 1909. During World War II, the Nazis completely devastated the interior of the synagogue, turning it into a prison and warehouse for stolen Jewish property, and at the end of the war, the building was burned down. Reconstruction of the building began in 1951 and was completed in 1955 in the socialist realist style. The synagogue was then turned into a provincial state archive.