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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.

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.

Church building located behind the IJsselmeerdijk, built in 1632 on the foundations of a late 16th-century predecessor and consisting of a two-aisled hall church until 1892. In 1658 the church was expanded with a south aisle, which was demolished again in 1892. Since then it has been a single-aisled building again.

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.

This is the oldest (still existing) church on Texel. This church is one of the three churches of the Protestant Wadden Sea Community of Texel, together with the Seamen's Church in Oudeschild and the Wadden Church in De Cockdorp. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

In May 1929, the restoration of the Reformed Church in Neede was started. In order to install the central heating, the wooden floor was broken open. In the process, fragments of a sculpture were found in the middle of the building.

Important large church with a defining wooden tower. Since 1986 Samen op Weg (merger process Dutch Reformed, Reformed and Lutheran). In 2004 a modern multifunctional centre was built against the left side wall of the church, named "Bartel Jacobsz Centrum". In the early 2010s managed by a Foundation, which campaigns for preservation and necessary restoration, which took place in 2015 - 2017. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.