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The church in Svelvik is a long church from 1859, designed by Wilhelm Hanstein, with Christian H. Grosch as consultant. It replaced a medieval stone church dedicated to Nicholas of Myra. The church has arched (Romanesque) windows, but the expression is otherwise more oriented towards the neo-Gothic.

The church of Svene is a cruciform church from 1738. It was built on the same plan and of approximately the same size as the main church and the annex church in Lyngdal.

Vustra Vingaker's church was built during the Middle Ages, around the year 1300. Of the original medieval church, however, not much remains. The emissary church has today is more reminiscent of the great power era's 17th century when i.a. the choir and the altarpiece came into being. However, the church got its current appearance in connection with the major renovation that was completed in 1783 when i.a. the cross arms and the sacristy were built. The last major change to the church's exterior that was made was in 1885 when the tower hood was added.

Lavra Svyatogorsk is an Orthodox monastery whose first mention dates from 1526. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, there were 600 monks in the monastery. Neglected during the Soviet period, the monastery was restored in 1992.

Sviland chapel is a wooden building completed in 1913. The architect of the chapel is Michael Slettebø (1879 – 1925).

The Svinndal church was built in 1856. It replaced a church that burned down in 1854. The project of building the new church was entrusted to the architect Chr.H.Grosch who gave the church a neo-gothic and Swiss-style.

Svolvær Church, which was consecrated in 1934, is a characteristic long church with a choir at the base of the tower, built with plastered exterior and interior walls according to the drawings of architect Harald Sund. The church is characterised by simple and strict forms, like the church of a medieval village.

The Jewish Museum is situated in Sweden’s oldest preserved synagogue. The building as well as our exhibitions tell the story of the Jews who came to Sweden, how they formed a community, and how they became a part of Swedish society, both past and present. Stockholm’s earliest Jewish congregation moved to the building, a then defunct auction room, in 1795. It was to be the focus of Jewish life in Sweden for almost a century.

Kumla church is located right next to the old main road through Nurke, which was also the king's eriksgata. Just southeast of the church, in a small depression on the slope, is what is usually called Franzen's cave. Here is a memorial stone since 1946 for the psalm poet Frans Michael Franzen who was pastor in Kumla 1812-1825.

The church in Sykkylven was built in brick in 1990 and designed by the architect Oscar F. Norderval. The church of Sykkylven is a modern "working church": in addition to the church, the complex includes an office, its own chapel, a complete basement with an activity room and a large kitchen.