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This iconic 17th-century church is the most prominent in the Lithuanian city of Siauliai. It is famed for its architectural style of Renaissance Mannerism. It contains defensive features as well due to the wealth it used to contain. This church marks the beginning of the pilgrimage trail to the Hill of Crosses.

The cathedral of Salerno was built in Romanesque style between 1080 and 1085, and then modified several times. The façade and the bell tower, redesigned in Baroque style, were restored to their original appearance in the 1950s and are now of great historical and artistic value. They are an important testimony to the Byzantine-Norman fusion of the period.

The Cathedral of San Feliú de Llobregat is the work of the architect Josep Ros i Ros. The old parish church, a 19th-century work designed by Francisco Renart, was destroyed in July 1936, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. All that remained of the old church was the bell tower. In 1939 the foundation stone of the current building was laid and in 1940 construction work began.

The Cathedral of Santa María, popularly known as the Old Cathedral, is a Gothic Catholic temple built from the 13th century. Since 2015 the building is a UNESCO World Heritage monument as part of the "Camino de Santiago: French Road and Northern Roads of Spain".

The Cathedral of St Fachanan is an ancient cathedral that was originally an abbey church. St Fachanan founded a monastery on the site in the 6th century. The monastery went through a difficult period in the Middle Ages, being looted and burned. Rebuilt several times, the abbey church was repaired to its present form in the 1830s. The transept was fitted with a glass roof in 2005 to protect the remains of the three high crosses moved there.

The 18th-century Cathedral of St John the Baptist is Sligo's Anglican cathedral. The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception was almost certainly built on the site of a medieval hospital and parish church in honour of the Trinity, founded in the 13th century. Part of the medieval structure is included in the present west tower. When the German-born Irish architect Richard Cassels (1690-1751) came to Sligo in 1730 to design Hazelwood House for the Wynne family, he was also commissioned to build St John's Church.

The Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne is the Catholic cathedral in Cork. It was built in 1808 in the Neo-Gothic style and was badly damaged by fire in 1820. Restoration was carried out by George Richard Pain in 1818. In 1964 the cathedral church complex was enlarged and the tower, which reaches a height of 80 metres, was built.

The Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi was built between 1936 and 1939, during the Italian occupation of part of the Aegean islands (1912-1945). It is the Catholic Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Rhodes and was designed by the architect Armando Bernabiti. The frescoes on the walls of the choir are painted by Pietro Gaudenzi.

The Cathedral of St. John is a Gothic hall church built in the first half of the 15th century. An earlier building existed, probably dating from the 12th century. After changing religious denomination several times from the arrival of the Reformation in Neumarkt, the church finally became Catholic in 1649. Restorations in the 19th century replaced the baroque furniture with neo-gothic furniture. Damaged during the Second World War, St. John's Church was repaired between 1964 and 1966 and from 1987 to 1995. In 2015, St. Johannes is elevated to the status of a cathedral.

The Cathedral of St. Louis in Plovdiv is one of the main and largest Roman Catholic churches in Bulgaria. The cathedral was built between 1858 and 1861 in a Baroque style, which is particularly visible on its facade. The church is also famous for the fact that a musical organ was installed there for the first time in Bulgaria.