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St. Giles Cathedral was founded in the 11th century but the original cathedral burned down in 1385 and was rebuilt shortly afterwards. In 1466 St. Giles became a collegiate church and around 1490 the lantern tower was added. In the 16th century, the reformer John Knox became a priest of St. Gilles and was buried there, making the cathedral the mother church of Presbyterianism. He is commemorated by a 19th-century stained glass window in the south wall of the church and, since 1904, by a bronze statue on the north side.

The copper-roofed Sankt Göran’s Kyrka, built in 1927, is one of the island's few modern churches

St. Gorazd Cathedral is an Orthodox church built in 1939. In 1942, the temple was closed and operated as a warehouse until May 1945. Between 1985 and 1987, the cathedral underwent major repairs.

St. Hedwig Cathedral in Berlin is the Episcopal Church of the Archdiocese of Berlin. Built between 1747 and 1773, St. Hedwig's Cathedral is the first Catholic church constructed after the Reformation in Berlin. After the destruction of the rotunda in an air raid during the Second World War, the cathedral was rebuilt from 1952, the interior was redesigned by the architect Hanns Schwippert.

St. Hedwig's Church is a modernist building, one of the last works of the architect Léopold Bauer. After the end of an architectural competition, construction work began in 1933, but was interrupted by the Second World War, during which the unfinished church served as a warehouse for military equipment and the observatory bell tower for the Luftwaffe. After the war, the church was used as a warehouse until 1989.

St. Ignatius Church is a modernist Catholic church built between 1937 and 1948 to replace an old wooden church dating from 1774. When the new church was consecrated in 1948, it was decided to demolish the old wooden church and transport it to the Nereta cemetery Ķišķi, but the Monuments Board (Pieminekļu valde) banned it and in the following years it was used as a warehouse until it collapsed.

St. Ignatius Church is a Jesuit church completed in 1725. It was built as a single-nave Baroque church with a representative façade, modelled on the church of St. Ignatius in Rome. The design was made by the architect Andrea Pozzo. In 1885 an artificial grotto was erected in the church, dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes, one of the oldest in Europe.

Originally built in the 18th century as a Jesuit Catholic church, the Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola and Stanislaus Kostka currently functions as a Ukranian Orthodox church. This church changed denominations and functions a number of times throughout its history, switching between Orthodoxy and Catholicism, and even being used as a sport's hall during the Soviet Union.

St. Ivan Rilski church, also called the sunken church, dates from the end of the 19th century. In the 1960s, when it was learned that the village would be submerged by the construction of the Zhrebchevo dam, the inhabitants took out the icons and church utensils and took them to the church in the town of Gurkovo. The authorities of the time allegedly offered the priest serving in the church to destroy it, but he refused.

St. Jacob's Church was one of the first "working churches" (A church building that includes numerous additional rooms for meetings and activities) in the country. The church was built in the inter-war period (completed in 1921) in a neo-Romanesque style in plastered brick. St. Jakob's church is the "Youth Cathedral of Bergen", its congregation organises activities for young people between 15 and 30 years of age.