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The Prayer room at van Oss in Zierikzee is an Ashkenazi synagogue first built in 1825, refurbished in 1888. In use until 1920, this brick building now serves as a dwelling.

Protestant church originally built in the 13th century as a monastic church by Dominican Order.

The Predigerkirche was a church founded, together with a convent, in Zurich by the Dominicans in the 13th century. With the Protestant Reformation, it was transformed into a Protestant place of worship. From 1606 to 1614, the nave was fitted with Baroque elements. In 1887, the monastery building was destroyed by fire and the Zentralbibliothek was built in its place in 1915. In 1900, the church was endowed with the highest tower in the city, measuring 97 metres, designed by G. Gull and clearly inspired by the collapsed Grossmünster Towers.

The parish church of St. Primus and Felizian was consecrated in 1876 and renovated from 1953 to 1954 and in 1974. The chapel originally on the site would have been enlarged to become a church in 1122. From 1720 to 1736, a church was built according to the plans of Oswald Stuelebmer and closed in 1858. In 1866 the foundation stone for a new church in neo-gothic style was laid according to the plans of district engineer Pieschel. Jakob Ceconi was responsible for the construction.

Due to its strategic location, the fortified church of Prejmer was particularly strengthened. The building of the church has been started by the Teutonic Knights in 1218 and continued by the Cistercians after their expulsion. The floor plan in the shape of Greek cross was modified between 1512-1515 by adding two unequal side aisles and by extending the main nave. Above the crossing a high bell tower was erected in 1461. The church itself was never fortified, but protected by a surrounding 14 m high wall, strengthened by five towers, a kennel and a moat. A special feature, preserved until today as a whole is the four-story residential rooms and pantries, and behind them the parapet walk. The simple interior of the church preserves no frescoes and the 19th Century painting was removed during late restoration. The highlight is the Gothic winged altar with the Crucifixion scene in the midfield.

The church is the most valuable baroque building in Kosice, it has the most beautiful period interior. On the site of the current Premonstratensian church stood in the Middle Ages the so-called the royal house, which was the seat of an important economic institution - the royal chamber. At the beginning of the re-Catholicization at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, a dwelling and a chapel for the Jesuits, "missionaries" in the Protestant city, were established here. It was completed in 1681.

The monastery and church of Zsámbék Premontre were built between 1220 and 1234 in late Romanesque and early Gothic style. The architectural ensemble was destroyed by the great Komárno earthquake in 1763 and has not been rebuilt since, leaving the monument in ruins.

Prestebakke Church is a long church consecrated in 1795. The site of the church used to be at the present location of Søndre Enningdalen Church. When a new church was to be built in 1793, the church site was moved to Prestebakke, but the old cemetery was retained, and in the 1950s Søndre Enningdalen Church was built. Prestebakke church was repaired and roofed in 1793, as the year on the weather vane shows. The church was consecrated in 1795.

The parish church of the Holy Trinity was built in the period from 1768 to 1786. It was originally a Gothic building, and after the restoration it became a valuable example of the late barque type of church. It has a category 2 monumental value.

The Preveli Monastery is an Orthodox monastery of the sixteenth century, particularly known for its resistance to the Ottomans in 1866 and during the Second World War. It has a small museum that contains icons and liturgical objects.