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The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. Presumably, it appears on maps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the 1880s. The cemetery was photographed by Wisia Freud in 1938. It was fenced and well-maintained as most of the cemeteries in Galician shtetls. The site was fenced by ESJF in 2017.

The synagogue was built by a rich Hasid Yakob Glanzer and was the first oficial Hasidic synagogue in Lviv. In 1912, the building was reconstructed according to the design of Włodzimierz Podhorodecki. The synagogue was closed by the Soviet authorities in 1962. In 1990, the former synagogue was transferred to the Society for Jewish Culture and from 1993 it belongs to the religious community. Remains of the wall paintings were discovered in 2011.

The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. The cemetery could not be found marked on old maps of the region. Supposedly, it was founded in the second half of the 19th century. According to locals, the gravestones date to the late 20th century. The cemetery is abandoned and its land is used for cattle grazing.

The Old Jewish cemetery of Yampil is situated on the bank of the Dniester river, on the eastern outskirts of the town. It was established in the early 18th century and today contains around 150 matzevot, dating back to the late 18th to early 20th century.

Originally built during the Byzantine time, Yanbol synagogue was later used by the Jewish community that migrated to Istanbul from the town of Yanbol, Bulgaria thus it is also known as the Bulgarian Synagogue. The main structure is wood, and the ceiling of the main prayer hall is decorated with landscape oil paintings. Today it is open only on major holidays and for some Shabbat services.

The Yelets Assumption Monastery of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is one of the oldest monasteries in Ukraine, founded in 1060 by Prince Sviatoslav II of Kiev. It was destroyed in 1239 during the Mongol invasion. In 1623 it was restored under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and handed over to the Greek Catholic Church. In 1649 it was taken over by the Orthodox and was completely rebuilt in the Ukrainian Baroque style between 1669 and 1688.

The Yeni Mosque, also called 'New Mosque', is a historic mosque built in 1902 to the plans of the Italian architect Vitaliano Poselli. The mosque was founded for the Dömne community, Jews who followed Sabbatai Zevi in his conversion to Islam in the 17th century. The new Yeni Camii Mosque is the last mosque built in Salonika under Ottoman rule. The New Mosque now belongs to the municipality of Thessaloniki and hosts art exhibitions and various other cultural events.

The Telšiai yeshiva is an Ashkenazi synagogue built in 1908 by the architect Yakok I. Ushakov. Its original form is captured on a photograph from the 1920s and also in a postwar picture. Its street façade was pierced with large segment-headed windows on the ground floor, and with smaller round and segment-headed ones in the gable. The façade was decorated with brickwork pilasters, panels, frieze, stringcourses, and finials. According to a memoir by Shmuel Natanovich, the yeshiva occupied a large single-storey building, of about 800 sq m. The building was surrounded by a high fence, and the house of the rabbi was situated within the fenced yard. At the entrance to the building, there was a room for the lessons and a room for the library. In the yeshiva hall, there were three blocks of benches with lecterns, a Torah ark in the eastern wall and a bimah in the center. The brick annex on the northern part was added in the 1930s, as well as probably the upper floor in the western part. The eastern gable and the frieze were destroyed in a fire in 1960; probably, new parts were added afterward. The building was renovated in 1978. In 2004 only some decorations above the windows are still preserved. The windows are blocked with wooden planks. The building belongs to the Jewish Community of Lithuania.

The Yeshivat Hokhmei Lublin is an Ashkenazi synagogue built between 1928 and 1930 by the architect Agenor Smoluchowski. This Neo-Classical and Art Deco brick building still serves as a synagogue.

The Yeunten Ling Tibetan Institute is a Buddhist complex located in the Bishop's Castle since the 1980s. The complex includes a temple ("Thubten Shedrub Ling"), a library, meeting rooms, as well as about 50 studios and single rooms. The Yeunten Ling Institute has become one of the most important Dharma centres in Europe. Thousands of people gathered for the consecration of the Buddha statue by the Dalai Lama in 2012.