Explore Religious Heritage Across Europe

Strømsoddbygda chapel is a long church from 1953-57, known as "The Temple in the Forest", a name given to it by the poet Elling M. Solheim (1905-1971).

Strømsø Church is a wooden cruciform church dating from 1667. It has a vestry at the eastern end of the chancel and a turret above the centre of the cross plan. In 1702 the wooden exterior of the church was boarded up. The interior is strongly influenced by the renovation of the 1840s.

Noted as one of the most prominent monasteries of Serbia, this UNESCO heritage site lies 39 Kilometers southwest of the town of Kraljevo. The monastery was built in the Byzantine Raska style by Stefan Nemanja, who later abdicated and became a monk there himself. The monastery is made of white marble and is famous for its 13th and 14th century Byzantine frescoes.

Stugudal chapel is a wooden church that was built in 1957. The church has a long plan and was designed by architect John Egil Tverdahl.

Dutch Reformed Church. Built in the shape of a cross with short transepts and a three-sided closure dating from 1658 in traditional Gothic forms. Roof turret. The walls are articulated by pilasters. Internal wooden barrel vaults. Single manual organ, made in 1881 by the Gebr. van Oeckelen. Restored in 2003 by Elbertse (Soest). Bell frame with bell by Petit and Fritsen, 1938, diam. 48.8 cm.

The stupa was built in 1926 to commemorate the soliders from Laos and Cambodia who died defending France in the First World War.

The Stupa of Complete Victory, located in the valley on the banks of the river Esk in Scotland, was the first Buddhist stupa to be built in the United Kingdom.

The Stupa of Enlightenment is located in the village of Plana, near the capital Sofia. It is the first traditional stupa built in Bulgaria.

The first Buddhist stupa in Lithuania, Stupkalnis Lhabab Stupa, was inaugurated in 2022. It was built to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Diamond Way School’s activities in Lithuania.

The cathedral church of St. Eberhard has been a cathedral only since 1978. Although the parish dates back to the 10th century, the present building was completed in 1955, the previous one having been destroyed during the Second World War.