A historical village in Co Antrim has become the UK’s newest Unesco World Heritage Site.
The Moravian Church settlement in Gracehill is Northern Ireland’s second such site - and the 34th in the UK.
The site was nominated as part of an American campaign to achieve World Heritage Status for Moravian Church settlements founded in the 18th century.
The Gracehill site is among other Moravian Church sites in Herrnhut, Germany and Bethlehem in the United States to gain World Heritage status.
Founded in 1759, Gracehill features distinctive Moravian buildings, including a particular type of congregation building called a Gemeinhaus, a church, choir houses and a cemetery.
There is an active congregation present at the site today, who continue Moravian traditions.
According to Unesco, Gracehill is the best preserved example of a settlement representing the Moravian ideal in the UK and Ireland and the only example built on the island of Ireland.
It becomes Northern Ireland’s second such site - the other is the Giant's Causeway, which was listed in 1986.