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St. Michael's Church is an Ottonian, pre-Romanesque church founded in 1010. Until the Reformation it was the abbey church of the Benedictine abbey of the same name. Today it is a Protestant-Lutheran parish church. Since 1985, the church, together with Hildesheim Cathedral, has been a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site.

St. Michael's Church was built in 1628 as the monastery church of the Jesuit community in Aachen. With the abolition of the Jesuit order in September 1773, the church was closed and during the French period, it was converted into a grain store. In 1804 it became a Catholic parish church. In 1987, the church was acquired by the Greek Orthodox parish of St. Dimitrios.

St Michael's Church was built between 1851 and 1859 and is, together with St Edwige's Cathedral (1743-1777), the oldest Catholic church in Berlin. King Frederick William IV of Prussia authorised the construction of a second Catholic church in Berlin as a garrison church for Catholic soldiers, dedicated to St Michael, the patron saint of the army. On 3 February 1945, an Anglo-American air raid completely destroyed the Luisenstadt district and the church burned down. The nave is still without a roof and worship takes place in the transept.

The Protestant town church of St. Michael was built from 1380 on top of a former Romanesque church. The choir, the choir vault, the three eastern bays of the nave and the southern facade up to the sixth bay of the nave were built first. After a break of about 30 years, the nave was completed in a second construction phase from 1474 to 1557 and the bell tower was erected. In the 17th century, several repairs were made to the church building. During the Second World War, the town church was severely damaged. In the post-war years, until 1956, the interior with octagonal pillars and a star-shaped vault was rebuilt under the direction of the Jena architect Hans Schlag.

St. Nicholas Church was built between 1390 and 1480 on the site of a previous building mentioned in 1332. The west tower was not built until 1516-82, and was rebuilt in 1877. The interior of the church is mainly Renaissance and Baroque.

The Nikolaikirche, which was founded in the 12th century, is the oldest and largest church in Leipzig. In the autumn of 1989, the Nikolaikirche was the central starting point of the peaceful revolution in the GDR with the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 and the reunification of Germany on 3 October 1990.

St. Nicholas' Church is a brick church in late Gothic style, the largest medieval church in Lower Lausitz. The church was first mentioned in 1156, but the present church was built from the second half of the 15th century, with construction continuing until the 16th century. The church was extensively renovated between 1910 and 1911. During the Second World War the church burned down and had to be restored in the post-war period.

The Nikolaikirche was first mentioned in a document in 1262. Around 1390, a five-bay basilica choir was added. While the interior of the church is characterised by a neo-Gothic redesign from 1824-1832, valuable wall paintings from the 14th and 15th centuries can be found in some side chapels.

St. Nicholas Church is the Protestant place of worship in Leutra. Like the choir, the walled church dates from the 12th century. The ashlar masonry tower with simple slotted window openings became a four-storey fortified tower in the second half of the 13th century.

St. Pantaleon is one of the twelve great Romanesque basilicas in the old town of Cologne. The church, built in the 9th century, was included in a Benedictine abbey of the same name until the secularization of the monastery at the end of the 18th century as an abbey church.