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The Parish Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary was built in 1883, a few decades after the reinstatement of Mellieħa as a parish.

In the early Middle Ages, a hillfort was divided into two parts, which were separated by a road leading to the Danube. Its area was fortified on three sides, on the south side there was probably no fortification, probably due to the unusually vertical bank 3-4 m high, which was a natural protection.

The Igreja Matriz de Vila do Bispo (Parish Church of Vila do Bispo) dates back to the 16th century, although the present building is a result of the remodelling work that was carried out at the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century.

Construction time: 1904. In 1932, the expansion to a larger than the original area after the extension of the nave on the south-west side. In 1944/45 the old chapel and the tower were slightly damaged. The extension was completely destroyed, to date, completely absent. Architect of the chapel: Friedrich Heitmann Extension architects: Johannes Lauffer and Georg Schonweiler Hufen and Amalienau

The Christian community Beréa Heerlen was founded in 1993 by Piet Vente, Jan_Sjoerd_Pasterkamp and Leen de Rijk. Piet Vente was the pastor until he handed it over to Glenn Comvalius in 2000. In 2004 the church moved from the Zeswegen district to Schaesbergerweg 136 in Heerlen where they moved into their own building. In 2010 Glenn Comvalius handed over the pastorship to Remco de Zwart.

Built as a Reformed Church in the southern district of Huizum-West. Important reconstruction church: single-nave hall church, with rose window and small bell tower, in traditionalist forms. Out of use as a Reformed Church in 1996, when the local Reformed parish merged with, and into, the nearby Dutch Reformed Kurios Church .

Expressionist hall church with roof turret. Also used for some time by the NHGb (Reformed Federation within the Dutch Reformed Church).

Built as a Liberal Reformed Church. Important early modern church building, without a tower. Architectural style: New Hague School/New Objectivity. Fourteen beautiful elongated windows from the construction period by Utrecht artist Kees Kuiler. Since the early 1980s, collaboration with the Remonstrants, who left their church building elsewhere in Arnhem at the time. The current name of this collaboration is "Parkstraatgemeente".

The Parma Baptistery, built between 1196 and 1270, is a building considered to be the junction between Romanesque and Gothic architecture. The building houses magnificent frescoes from the 14th and 15th centuries.

The Parmakkapi (Abudaram) Synagogue in Istanbul is a Sephardi synagogue completed in 1804, rebuilt in 1832. Since its construction, the synagogue was restored in 1925 and in 1995. In use until the 1950s, this stone synagogue was recently restored in its original use (2017).