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The Cathedral of the Nativity of Mary Most Holy, built in the 7th century, is incorporated in what was the main sacred temple of Doric style of the Greek colony of Syracuse, dedicated to Athena. After being damaged during the earthquake in Sicily in 1693, it was restored in a rococo style in the 18th century. Since 2005, the cathedral is protected by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

The Cathedral of Tarazona is one of the most characteristic constructions of the Gothic and Mudejar style in the country. Its construction began in the 11th century and was consecrated in 1232. In the 14th century, it was destroyed during the War of the Two Peters (1356-1375). Its bays were rebuilt in the Mudejar style, as were the side chapels, the exterior walls, the dome and the tower.

The Cathedral of the Armed Forces is the cathedral of the Military Ordinariate in Spain. The church was originally part of the former Bernardine monastery of Madrid, founded in 1615 by Cristóbal de Sandoval y Rojas, Duke of Uceda. The church was designed in the shape of a Latin cross by the architect Juan Gómez de Mora in 1615, but construction began in 1671, half a century after the foundation of the monastery, due to the misfortune of the favourite, and was not completed until 1744. The convent was demolished in 1972. The church was therefore purchased by the Spanish Ministry of Defence around 1980 to house the Military Ordinariate in Spain.

The Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary is a Romanesque church dating from the 11th century. Hardly anything is known about the cathedral before the year 1000, although in Koper, with interruptions, bishops have been enthroned since 520. The oldest mention of the Romanesque Church of Mary in Koper dates back to the end of the 11th century. The church houses the relics of St. Nazarius and St. Alexander.

Cathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady and St Foster (Vedast) is one of the most impressive neo-classic 18th century buildings of western Europe. The cathedral was the abbey church of the Abbey of Saint Vaast still next to it today. The origins of the whole go back to the 7th century. The abbey was rebuilt in 1740 and the abbey church around 1760.

The Cathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady is a Baroque Catholic cathedral, built between 1712 and 1730. The adjoining monastery was closed in 1852, while the church was transformed into a parish and in 1925 it became the Catholic Cathedral of the Diocese of Pinsk. The facade is richly decorated and took its present form in 1766.

The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Roman Catholic church built in the neo-Gothic style in 1887-1892. In the 1930s, the church was closed and rebuilt for secular purposes - it housed, among other things, a cinema for party dignitaries. In 1992, the church was returned to the faithful. Since 2002, it has been the cathedral of the new diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhsky.

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral belongs to the Catholic Church. The cathedral was built between 1844 and 1853. It was Father Grzegorz Razutowicz who took the initiative to build this cathedral. The design was made by the Polish architect Feliks Gąsiorowski, with the help of Italian architect Francesco Morandi. The building is a three-aisled basilica with a dome selected cruise on a cruciform plan. White and gray marble were used inside. The painting on the main altar is an image of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, which is a copy of Raphael.

Tuam Cathedral, built between 1827 and 1837, is one of the finest examples of Gothic Revival architecture in Ireland. The construction of a Catholic cathedral was necessary because the 14th century St Mary's Cathedral had been given over to Anglican worship under Elizabeth I and public Roman Catholic worship had been banned for two hundred years.

The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin is the first Greek-Catholic church in Bukovyna, built in 1820-21 in the Empire style. Initially named the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, the church was called the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin from 1937. In the early 1940s, the church was already too small for the faithful and was therefore enlarged thanks to a project by Volodymyr Zalozetsky. With the advent of the Bolshevik regime in 1946, worship in Ukrainian Greek-Catholic churches was banned and only reopened in 1990.