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The parish church of Prastio is dedicated to Agios Georgios and was built in 1873. It is located in the centre of the original settlement core. The church was converted into a mosque after 1974 and used until a new mosque was completed in the village (around the beginning of the 2000s). After that, the building was abandoned and left to its own devices.

The mosque of Prastio is located in the eastern part of the old village centre. This building is a new construction of a previous mosque that was built on the same site in Ottoman times. According to Bağişkan, the current mosque was built in 1906. Little is known about the mosque's further history. In 2004, repair work was carried out on behalf of the Republic of Cyprus.

The Cathedral of Prato is one of the oldest churches in Prato, already mentioned in the 10th century. The sides and the bell tower (with the exception of the last cell built in 1356) come from the original 18th-century structure. During the Trecento the building was enlarged following the growing popular success of the relic of Santa Cintola. The buildings in front of the façade were demolished to create the new and very large square designed to receive the crowds for the ostentation of the sacred relic.

it is more than likely that the Orthodox Church had its parishes in Spisska Nova Ves as well as in most other Spis villages since the time of the mission of the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius until about the thirteenth century

The interior was gradually renovated after 1990. There are new icons on the iconostasis (the work of Jana Baudisova); as well as the main icons in the altar, the icon of the presov. The Virgin in life before the iconostasis (see the picture on the right here), icons displayed for worship on annals and the Crucifixion icon. In the 1990s, believers adapted the house of a former laundromat, where they built a circular tank as a baptistery for the baptism of adults by full immersion. Around the year 2000, the faithful archondarics were set up for the meeting (here we can sit together after the service, catechesis of catechumens and teaching of religion for children take place here, and parish meetings and various discussions take place here). After 2010, the church interior was renovated (cared for by Br. Anatoly and Br. Yuri), stasidia were installed and a sound system was provided, thanks to which even those believers who cannot fit into the church or are with children in the archondaric can listen to the service. In 2018, large panel icons of Czech saints were installed in boxes decorated with carvings in the Byzantine style (the work of Andrej Vavra). (You can partially see the transformation of the interior of the house temple here.)

The Prayer hall in Ellingen is Ashkenazi synagogue completed in 1724. The syangogue has been made of brick.

The Prayer room at van Oss in Zierikzee is an Ashkenazi synagogue first built in 1825, refurbished in 1888. In use until 1920, this brick building now serves as a dwelling.

Protestant church originally built in the 13th century as a monastic church by Dominican Order.

The Predigerkirche was a church founded, together with a convent, in Zurich by the Dominicans in the 13th century. With the Protestant Reformation, it was transformed into a Protestant place of worship. From 1606 to 1614, the nave was fitted with Baroque elements. In 1887, the monastery building was destroyed by fire and the Zentralbibliothek was built in its place in 1915. In 1900, the church was endowed with the highest tower in the city, measuring 97 metres, designed by G. Gull and clearly inspired by the collapsed Grossmünster Towers.

The parish church of St. Primus and Felizian was consecrated in 1876 and renovated from 1953 to 1954 and in 1974. The chapel originally on the site would have been enlarged to become a church in 1122. From 1720 to 1736, a church was built according to the plans of Oswald Stuelebmer and closed in 1858. In 1866 the foundation stone for a new church in neo-gothic style was laid according to the plans of district engineer Pieschel. Jakob Ceconi was responsible for the construction.