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The Fridolinsmünster was founded as a collegiate church of the Säckingen women's convent. The convent church was built in Romanesque style, then rebuilt in Gothic style after a fire in the 14th century and renovated in the 17th and 18th centuries with elements of Baroque style. Today it is the main church of the Catholic community of Bad Säckingen.

The Friedenskirche in Bochum, Germany, originally an evangelical church, was transformed into the "Q1 - Eins im Quartier" neighborhood center in 2013-2015 due to declining congregation and growing multicultural population.

Construction of the Friedenskirche in Monheim-Baumberg began in 1968 and was finished in 1974. Worship service already started in 1971. The impressive building complex was planned by the swiss architect and sculptor Walter Maria Förderer. Förderer designed the Friedenskirche as a walk-in sculpture made from concrete: clearly sacred on the outside, pragmatically flexible on the inside.

The Friedenskirche was built between 1743 and 1751 at the request of Prince Wilhelm Heinrich for the newly admitted reformed community of Saarbrücken. The prince's mother, who died in 1738, had belonged to the Reformed Confession. After being secularised for almost a century, the Old Catholic Church acquired the building in 1892. Largely destroyed in an air raid during the Second World War, the church was rebuilt from 1961 to 1966 and the church was consecrated in 1967. Until 2014, the new church was used simultaneously by the Old Catholics and the Russian Orthodox community. On one narrow side of the great hall was the altar of the Old-Catholic community, on the opposite side the iconostasis of the Russian Orthodox community.

The Friedhofskapelle, built between 1908 and 1911, is a wooden chapel inspired by Norwegian stave churches. The wooden interior, the Art Nouveau stained glass windows and the organ are preserved in their original state. The chapel is part of the southwestern cemetery of Stahnsdorf, the tenth largest cemetery in the world and a listed site.

The Friedrichswerder Church is a simultaneous church, which until 1872 hosted the French Lutheran-Evangelical and Reformed services and then the United Church services until the Second World War. Today it is home to the Schinkel-Museum, one of Berlin's state museums. The church was built between 1824 and 1830 by Schinkel. It was the first neo-Gothic church to be built in Berlin.

The half-timbered church in Frohnhausen was built between 1770 and 1789. It is one of the "Kaffeemühlenkirche" (coffee mill church) of the region because of its appearance.

Fulda Cathedral (St. Salvator zu Fulda) contains the tomb of St. Boniface (patron saint of Germany), making it a pilgrimage destination. The cathedral was once the abbey church of the powerful abbey of Fulda (744-1802) which made the city of Fulda the capital of a principality for five centuries. The Baroque building was built from 1704 to 1712 under the reign of Abbot Adalbert von Schleifras.

The Gallus Chapel of Winterberg, which was consecrated in 2000, is a motorway chapel located close to the Federal Highway 96. The chapel was planned and designed by the architect and former mayor of Leutkirch Georg Zimmer. The planning and construction management was carried out by the architect Georg Heinz from Adrazhofen and the technical construction management by Anton Bodenmüller from Tautenhofen.

Gandersheim Abbey was founded in 852 by the Saxon Count Liudolf. An imperial abbey from the 13th century until its dissolution in 1810, it hosted a community of women from noble families who lived secular lives without having to take perpetual vows. The abbey is famous to have been the living place of Hrotsvita of Gandersheim, a poetess and first Germanic author of the Ottonian Renaissance (930 - 1030).