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Valsøyfjord Church, also popularly called Otnes Church, is a wooden church completed in 1864 according to the design of the Danish-born architect Jacob Wilhelm Nordan (1824 - 1892).

Vamlingbo Church is one of the 92 medieval churches on the island of Gotland.

In 1959 the church was modernised and a new pulpit was installed. The pulpit from 1834 was removed. During the restoration of 1988 a suitable pulpit was sought and this was found in the Nieuwezijds Kapel in Amsterdam, which had been decommissioned in the early 1970s. This pulpit was made around 1630.

Nice, small, neo-Gothic hall church, without tower.

To support its activities, the VBSN foundation owns the Van Hanh pagoda in Almere. Three major celebrations take place there each year. Various groups are active there on weekends. In addition, the foundation regularly performs ceremonies there at weddings, funerals, commemorations, etc.

St. Annaparochie is particularly known because of the marriage of Saskia van Uylenburgh and Rembrandt van Rijn that took place in the area. It did not happen in this church building, but in its predecessor. The Local Commission that manages the church preserves the memory of this special marriage.

The church of Vanaja is a grey stone church built at the end of the 1490s and during the first decade of the 16th century. It is one of the smallest medieval greystone churches in Finland. The church in Vanaja has been repaired over the centuries. The church underwent major renovations in 1681 and 1789. The most important renovation was carried out in the 1860s. At that time, the windows on the south wall were enlarged, and two new windows were added to the north wall. In 1884, the church was plastered on the outside and whitewashed on the inside. The interior was remodelled again in the 1930s when the church was given a wooden floor. It was not until 1953 that an electric heating system was built in the church, and the church became warm and bright. The most recent renovation of the church took place in 1984.

The Vang church is an octagonal brick church dating from 1810. The bell tower on the west side comes from the old medieval church on the site. The church was designed by parish priest Abraham Pihl, and the builder was Svend Aspås from Røros. The church in Vang has since served as a model for the church in Gamle Hunn, the church in Åmot in Nord-Torpa and the church in Jevnaker. The church was restored in 1954, and as with Hamar Cathedral, the restoration work was led by the architect Arnstein Arneberg.

Vang Church, built in 1839, is a cruciform panelled church with a chancel in the north cross arm and the main entrance to the south. The tower on the south side of the nave is almost square in plan, four storeys high and with a recessed octagonal bell chamber at the top, finished with an octagonal tower bonnet. The sacristy is at the north end of the chancel. The old 17th-century altarpiece has been returned to the church.

In 1841-42, the Stave church of Vang, bought by King Frederick William IV of Prussia, was moved from the village of Vang (Norway) to Szczecin, then to Berlin, and finally to Silesia. In 1844, the Stave church became the church of the Evangelical parish of Karpacz. The church is said to have been built from pine logs in the village of Vang in southern Norway at the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries.