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St. John the Theologian Kaneo is one of the most famous churches in Northern Macedonia due to its position above Lake Ohrid. Its foundation date is unknown, but the church existed already in the 13th century. Abandoned during the Ottoman period, it was restored in the 19th century. The frescoes inside were made during the restoration and date back to the 20th century.

The monastery of St. John Vladimir, built at the end of the 14th century, is an important monument in medieval Albania, and one of the largest sacred complexes in the country. The monastery was almost completely destroyed by fire in 1944, but the walls painted in the 18th century were spared.

As an arch-Cathedral, Saint John is the most important church in Warsaw and one of the oldest, dating back to 1390. Completely destroyed during the Second World War, the building was rebuilt according to Jan Zachwatowicz's plans between 1948 and 1956. The building is now classified by UNESCO.

St. John's Basilica is a church built between 1894 and 1897, the largest Catholic church in Berlin. The architect was the building consultant August Menken. He designed the church as a basilica in the Rhineland Romanesque style. After the Second World War, the church was used for the central services of the diocese of Berlin, because St. Hedwigs Cathedral was still badly damaged. In addition to being a parish church, it served as the cathedral of the German military ordinance.

St. John's Church was funded in 1258, when the Franciscan Order built the St. John's Monastery and Basilica. The monastery was until the middle of the 17th century Bremen's hospital and nursing home.

The St. John's Church, founded in the 12th century, is one of the oldest churches in the city of Flensburg. The church is predominantly Romanesque, but in the Gothic period it was equipped with larger windows and a brick choir extension. The church has frescoes on its vault, which were restored in 1969. The baroque tower of the church dates from 1741.

St. John's seems to have been built from 1377 until the middle of the 15th century. Destroyed during the Second World War, the church was left as it was and served as a backdrop for war films. It was from the 60s that the reconstruction of the church began, allowing it to be used again for worship in the 90s.

St. John's Church is a neo-gothic brick church was built after the donations of the inhabitants in 1880-1881. From 1972 to 1975, renovation works were carried out and the church was reopened to the parishioners on May 11, 1975.

St. John's Church was built in the 14th century on an old Romanesque basilica as evidenced by the 1927 discoveries. The church towers were not completed until the second half of the 14th century. The church was remodelled in classicist style at the end of the 18th century, but restored in neo-gothic style a century later (1895). The towers of St. John's have held a special place in the history of the town, having long been used by the town as a watchtower, a role which was later combined with a dormitory function for students at Göttingen University from 1921 to 2001. The apartment was free of charge on condition that visitors were admitted to the tower for two hours every Saturday.

St. John's Church is a church built between 1888 and 1891 by Stockholm architect Adolf Emil Melander. The church is one of the most outstanding examples of neo-Gothic churches in Finland. The church was damaged during the great bombing of Helsinki in February 1944; among other things, several windows were broken. The church was restored for its centenary, and then part of the old decorative paint layer was exposed on the gallery wall.