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Grong Church is a long church dating from 1877. It replaces an earlier medieval one, from which the wooden sculpture of the "Grong Virgin", transferred to the NTNU University Museum in 1878, originated. The sculpture dates from around 1250 and shows a joyful Mary sitting with her son on her left knee. The painting of the sculpture is in remarkably good condition.

Grorud Church is a cruciform church built in 1902 by the architects Harald Bødtker and H. Berle. The building is made of grorud granite (grefsensyenite) and regular ashlars are centred around the corners and windows.

Groß St. Martin is an imposing Romanesque church in the old town of Cologne. Founded as early as 960 AD, the current building dates from 1150-1250. Partly destroyed during World War II, the building was completely rebuilt in 1985.

The Grossmünster, built between 1100 and 1220, is a protestant reformed church in Zurich's old town. The first part of the Grossmünster is believed to have been built by Charlemagne, who discovered the tombs of Saints Felix and Regula, two martyrs of Christianity, around the 7th century. The Protestant Reformation in Switzerland led by Ulrich Zwingli began in the Grossmünster, where he preached from 1519 onwards as a priest. The twin towers of the church, with their neo-Gothic domes, are the symbol of the town.

For centuries, the tower of Monster was a familiar landmark for sailors who came into sight of the coastline. The fact that the restoration of the tower in 1662 was subsidized by the Admiralty of Rotterdam, among others, indicates the importance of the tower for shipping. Skippers and helmsmen, "living in the village of Heijde" (Ter Heijde), submitted a request to the municipal authorities of Monster in 1734. They wanted the tower not to be demolished, but to be preserved as a beacon when entering the Maas from the sea. If the tower were no longer there, all sea charts would have to be remade, according to the skippers. The tower was preserved. During a storm in 2019, no one was allowed to walk past the tower of Monster. Parts of the scaffolding, which were around the tower for a restoration, had come loose due to the wind. The fire brigade had cordoned off the area. The tower is now restored and the scaffolding has been cleared away. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

NH Church. Three-aisled hall church with a three-sided closed choir, a north choir and a tower with an octagonal superstructure and a spire. The oldest parts of the church date back to the 13th century; the tower with perpendicular buttresses dates from the 14th century. The nave and the north aisle were built in the second half of the 15th century. The south aisle served as a Walloon Church from 1618 to 1808 and was separated from the rest of the church around 1685. During a major renovation in 1868, the church was completely plastered on the outside and the windows were given new traceries. After a lightning strike, the tower was restored and deplastered in 1950. The interior is covered by a flat stucco ceiling from 1868. An important part of the interior is the pulpit with surrounding baptismal garden in Louis XVI style: donated in 1794 by descendants of Jacob Cats. The single manual organ was built in 1903 by JF Kruse (Leeuwarden).

Three-aisled pseudo-basilica with a three-sided choir under a slate-covered saddle roof and with a tower at the entrance, built in 1903 -1904 and designed by AHLKups.

The Grote Kerk in Alblasserdam is a historic church erected in 1899 in a Neo-Gothic style. The last restoration took place in 2004. It is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Single-nave cruciform church on a centralizing plan with a tower, provided with an elegant spire with onion-shaped crowning, built in 1900-1901 to a design by Barend Hooijkaas jr. (1855-1943). It is one of the two still existing church buildings from his oeuvre: the other is the Dorpskerk in Pernis (1926). The previous church was lost to fire in 1899. The tower is a free copy of that of the burnt down church. Interior from the construction period.

Interesting reconstruction church in traditionalist style, built under the influence of the sober Protestant church architecture of the eighteenth century and classicism. The crowning of the tower dates from 1976.