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The new cemetery was established in 1928. It was not marked on old maps. A few dozens of gravestones were moved from the old cemetery when it was demolished. The cemetery was operating after WWII.

The Memorial Temple of the Birth of Christ, built between 1885 and 1902, is a cultural monument of national importance. It is dedicated to the fighters of the Russo-Turkish war (1877-1878). In its dungeons, there is an ossuary containing the bones of nearly 9,000 Russian and Bulgarian warriors who died in Bulgaria during the war of liberation.

Heavily modernized church without a tower (to be considered as new construction).

Shkodër Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to St. Stephen, built between 1858 and 1867. It was not until 1890 that the bell tower was completed and equipped with three bells, bought in Venice by the philanthropists Filip Parruca and the brothers Mark and Pjetër Pema. With the Cultural Revolution of 1967, the Cathedral was transformed into a Sports Palace.

The Shomre Hadass Synagogue Bouwmeesters straat in Antwerpen is an Ashkenazi synagogue built between 1891 and 1893 by architects Ernest Stordiau and Joseph Hertogs. This Neo-Moorish brick building still serves as a synagogue.

The Shree Ghanapathy Temple in Wimbledon was founded in 1980 in a former Christian Presbyterian Church. It became in 1981 the first fully consecrated Hindu Temple in Europe.

This Hindu temple in the suburb of Wembley (London) opened its doors in 2010. It took 14 years of work to cut and carve all the pieces and figures that make up the temple, for which only Indian limestone was used. The pieces and figures were shipped and assembled in the United Kingdom.

Until December 31, 2016, this was the Reformed Church (synodal) of Kornhorn. On this date, the last Reformed service was held in this church. In September 2019, the church was taken over by the Hindu acarya (kind of guru) Shankar Upadhyay who turned it into a Hindu temple, the Mandir Shri Ketumaleshwar Dhaam. The clearest symbol of this change is the replacement of the cross on the facade by the trident of Shiva.

Hindu temple in Almere.

The period of the cemetery’s establishment is not known. It first appears on a cadastral map of 1865, but the earliest preserved gravestone dates from the first half of the 20th century. The cemetery was fenced by ESJF in 2019.