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The estimated period of the cemetery’s establishment dates back to the 16th and 17th centuries, accompanying the emergence of the local Jewish community. By September 3, 1942, all the Jews of Mel’nytsya had been executed and the cemetery sites were abandoned. At least three gravestones are preserved.

According to epigraphic data, the cemetery existed aready in 1795. It appears on maps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire of the 1880s. It was used until 1900s, when a new cemetery was opened.

The church in Melum dates from 1728 but a church has existed in Melum since at least 1354. In the 1720s, Frederick IV of Denmark chose to sell the churches in Lower Telemark, which had belonged to the Crown since the Reformation. At that time the church in Melum was in such a bad state that it had to be demolished. A new church was built by the locals, and in 1737 the church was sold. In 1854, the church finally became the property of the municipality.

Meløy church is a neo-Gothic wooden church from 1867. The first church is said to have existed already in the 15th century, replaced in the 1660s and later in 1708-1711 after a fire. As the church of 1711 was too small in the second half of the 19th century, a new church was designed in 1864 with a capacity of 750 seats.

The Old Synagogue of Chemnitz was inaugurated in 1899. It operated until its destruction during the Night of Broken Glass in 1938. The building, designed by Wenzel Bürger, had a Neo-Romanesque style with an eight-sided crossing dome. Today, a stele commemorates the place where the historic synagogue once stood.

The Memorial Synagogue in Gyöngyös is an Ashkenazi synagogue completed in 1813 by architect Károly Rábel. This Neo-Classical brick building now serves as an office.

The Memory Church is Baroque church in western Lisbon built on the site of the attempt assassination of King José I.

The Mennonite church, also called the meeting house, is a clandestine church from the 17th century.

Detached single-nave church in neo-Romanesque style from 1885-1886 designed by the architect K. Stoffels for the Mennonite community. The church building is part of the rich late 19th century buildings on the curved Paleisstraat, which were constructed after the community of King William III had taken over the royal possessions behind the palace on the Kneuterdijk.

The "Mennonite Church of Aalsmeer was built between 1926 and 1927 according to the designs of JF Staal (1879 - 1940). It is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.