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The building is located on the northern edge of the village.

Upper Rindal chapel is a wooden chapel built in 1911. The architect of the building is Lars Andersen Mogstad.

The Jewish cemetery of Ura appears to have been established after 1892, since it does not appear on the cadastral map of that year. It was demolished at an unknown time.

Uranienborg Church was consecrated on December 22, 1886. This neo-Gothic church was given in 2010, a new organ, acclaimed for its quality.

The church in Uranienborg was designed by Balthazar Lange and was consecrated on 22 December 1886. The building has a sober neo-Gothic style and is decorated with stained glass windows by the artist Emanuel Vigeland. In the 1930s, the interior was given its present design by the architect Arnstein Arneberg.

The Cathedral of Urbania dates back to the ancient Benedictine Abbey of San Cristoforo del Ponte in the 9th century. The building was renovated by the commendatory abbot Cardinal Bessarione in the second half of the 15th century. On this occasion the relics of the saint were transferred to the church. The church became the cathedral of the new diocese of Urbania, established on 18th February 1636. In the 18th century the church was again renovated in a neoclassical style according to the plans of the architect Giuseppe Tosi. The façade (1870) and the new bell tower (1958) are late: the old medieval bell tower is still present on the side.

The Cathedral of Urbino was first built in 1021. In the 15th century, on the initiative of Federico da Montefeltro, the cathedral was rebuilt according to a design attributed to the Sienese Francesco di Giorgio Martini, the Duke's official architect, and completed in 1604. The project, simple and bare, consisted simply of three naves supported by white colonnades. The earthquake of 12 January 1789 caused the collapse of the dome and necessitated the reconstruction of the cathedral according to a project by the Roman architect Giuseppe Valadier (1762-1839), who completed the building in 1801.

The Urjala sacristy is a medieval stone sacristy that was probably built between 1520 and 1540. A memorial stone to the old churches of Urjala was erected in the 1930s in the vicinity of the sacristy.

The Urnes Stave Church is dated to around 1140, making it one of the oldest stave churches. It is also unique because of its woodcarving work and extensive interior design. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979.

The Church of the Ursulines of the Holy Trinity was built between 1718 and 1726. The baroque building is the work of the architect Carlo Martinuzzi. The original facade consists of colossal three-quarter pillars, between which the wall with the windows is more or less deep. It is completed by a front modelled on the model of the Roman architect Borromini.