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The Bevis Marks Synagogue was completed and dedicated in September 1701. The interior and layout reflect the influence of the great Portuguese Synagogue of Amsterdam of 1675. A prominent feature of the synagogue is the Renaissance-style wooden ark containing the Torah scrolls located at the center of the Eastern wall of the building.

Built around 1506-1507, the "librairie" (old name) for canons, is one of the very rare examples of wooden buildings still preserved in northern France. Initially, access was from the south and the present stone gable was not built until the 17th century. At the same time, a retaining wall was built to relieve the beams of the first floor.

The synagogue in Biel was built in 1884 in the Moorish style. The synagogue was necessary for the growing Jewish community of Alsatian origin, attracted by the city's watchmaking industry. The synagogue was restored in the 1990s.

Biella Cathedral was built from 1402 to the 19th century on the site of a former 11th-century church. The cathedral was inaugurated in 1402 to honour a vow made by the population following the plague of 1399. In 1772 Santa Maria Maggiore was chosen as the cathedral of the new diocese of Biella and was completely restructured in the neo-gothic style by Ignazio Antonio Giulio.

Biertan gained its importance as a marketplace in competition with Mediaş and Moşna during the Middle Ages and was the seat of the bishop of the Evangelic Church from 1572 to 1867 . Therefore three mighty ring walls, two outer baileys and several defence towers protected the ensemble. The towerless three-nave hall church, almost completely preserved was built in 1500 on the foundations of a previous Romanesque building. The chancel had two defence levels, but the wooden one was demolished in 1803. The interior, covered by lierne vaults with ribbing shelters great treasures such as the stone pulpit from 1523, decorated with relief scenes or the late Gothic winged altar with 28 panel paintings and a delicate truss frame. The late Gothic sacristy door is a testimony of great craftsmanship. Richly decorated with inlay work, the door has a lock that was presented at the World Fair in Paris in 1889, a complicated system that centrally locks at 13 points simultaneously in order to safely keep the church treasure in the sacristy.

Bierzwnik Monastery is a former Cistercian monastery founded in 1286. With the Reformation, the monastery was closed and converted into farm buildings of a new estate created by the Margrave. The monastery church was rebuilt in the 19th century. Nowadays only the east and south wing floors, fragments of the cellars of the west wing and elements of the west cloister remain.

The Bikur Holim Synagogue in Izmir is a Sephardi synagogue completed in 1800. This stone building still serves as a synagogue.

The period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. It first appears on a cadastral map of 1858, but the earliest preserved gravestone dates from the first half of the 20th century. The cemetery was fenced by ESJF in November 2016.

Bilbao Cathedral probably dates from before the city was founded around 1300 when Bilbao was just a fishing village. The current building of the cathedral was constructed from the end of the 14th century until the 19th century. The cathedral is dedicated to Santiago as it is located on one of the pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela. It obtained the title of Minor Basilica in 1819, before becoming the cathedral of the Diocese of Bilbao in 1950.

Probably built by the Billingsfors factory's carpenters, the altarpiece was painted in the 16th century by Jan van Scorel, a dutch painter that played a leading role in introducing the Italian Renaissance into the Netherlandish paintings.