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The Church of Our Lord’s Ascension, built in 1824, is a tserkvas of Ukraine classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The building preserves an old 19th century iconostasis and is surrounded by an old cemetery and bell tower built in 1813.

Built in 1887, this was the first church to be built in the town of Esbjerg. The church is a neo-romantic style red brick building with stripes of gray granite. The church was adorned with frescoes in 1929.

The Church of Resurrection was an Anglican church founded in 1874 by Evan Jenkins, grandson of the first Anglican preacher in Brussels. Abandoned in 1958, the church was desecrated and turned into a nightclub in 2009.

Also known as the "Cathedral of Faro", this cathedral was built in its modern form in the 17th century. Archaeological evidence has proven this to be the site of a sacred place of Paleo-Christians which later became a Mosque after the Arab conquest, and later became a church in the 13th century after the Reconquista. The church was then destroyed by the Earl of Essex in the 16th century and rebuilt in its modern form.

The church of San Lorenzo or the Nativity of the Virgin Mary is a Lugurian Gothic church of the 14th century. The façade, made of local sandstone, has a Gothic portal and a rose window in Carrara marble dating back to 1375. The inside of the church, covered in baroque style, has three naves with barrel vaults. A restoration at the end of the 20th century partially restored the original Gothic forms.

This Baroque-style Catholic church was originally completed in 1607 and features a dome adorned with frescos. The church was then rebuilt in 1681 by Grand Master Gregorio Carafa whose coat of arms adorns the facade. The church was most recently enlarged in the 1920s.

Being one of the tallest structures in Croatia, this cathedral is one of the symbols of the city of Osijek. It is a neo-gothic style cathedral built in the 19th century. It has very colorful frescoes on the interior that were completed in the 1940s. The church suffered heavy damage due to fighting in the 1990s.

The complex of the Merciful Brothers, which comprise a church, monastery and hospital, dates from the end of the 17th century, and was modelled on a Viennese monastery. Built by the Order of Merciful Brothers that settled in the current territory of Slovakia in the 15th century, the hospital was of particular importance during the numerous periods of war and epidemics in this region.

The Church of the Mother of God stands in one of the holiest place of Slovenia: Svete Gore (Holy mountains). The “Holy Mountains” have the earliest Christian buildings of the countries and is still a pilgrimage centre for Slovenians. The church of Mary was first mentioned in 1265 as Monte Sancte Marie. The current building on the site is from the 17th century.

The wooden Church of St. Michael was probably built in 1777. Tyvodar Lehotskyy, a Ukrainian historian, believes that the building was actually constructed a while before this date. According to him, 1777 would be the time of the churches' consecration after the building had been renovated. The building is entirely made of oak and the tower is 22 meters high. It is the only remaining classical Lemko wooden church in the Carpathians. The church was built in an old Ukrainian style, with Baroque towers. The building had originally been constructed somewhere else, but it was moved to the Uzhhorod Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life in 1972, after a period of abandonment during the Sovjet times.