In this paper will be presented three cases of building ‘houses of foreign Gods’ in Finland. The building projects are a Sunni Muslim Islamic Centre, a Vietnamese Buddhist Cultural Centre and a Russian Orthodox chapel, all in the City of Turku in South-western Finland. By comparing these three cases we can see what types of arguments are used in the debate, and what are the practical hindrances in the building process. The paper analyses the cases by setting them into a perspective of global migration and media. It is suggested that these cases can be best understood as examples of the conjunctures of the global mediascapes and ethnoscapes (Appadurai, 1996). Local argumentation draws its material from globally mediated images of religious practises from far away, and implements it to the locality without asking the immigrants in question, whether their activity bears any resemblance to that of the media-based representations. However, there are significant differences in the ways in which different religious traditions are handled. In a particular local community, these processes can be understood in the framework of glocality, where the local is seen as the nuclei for the process of globalisation (Robertson, 1995).