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The wooden chapel of Saint Martin in Stari Brod, built in the 17th century, is a rare example of traditional Baroque architecture with a fully preserved painted interior. Although extremely dilapidated, the chapel remained in service until 2007, when its reconstruction began. After the restoration work was completed in 2015, the chapel was put back into service.

St. Martin’s church in Wiśniowa was built in 1720-1730 and comprehensively renovatedand reconstructed in the 19th century.

St. Martin’s Parish Church in Zawada (15th century) stands on the crest of a hill.

The St. Mary Magdalene Church is a stone church first mentioned in 1380 as an auxiliary church of the congregation of Palamuse. The church was probably built in the second half of the 14th or 15th century. During the wars of the 16th century, a large part of the church of Mary Magdalene was destroyed. In 1642 the construction of a new church began. After the Great Northern War, the church had to be repaired again, although it came out of it without major damage. In 1885-1887 the old church was completely rebuilt in the neo-gothic style. The last major renovation took place in 1937.

St. Mary Magdalene Church is a Roman Catholic church built in 1709, where the Jesuits were active until 1820 when Alexander I expelled them from Russian territory. The first wooden Catholic church in Auleja was built in 1530, it was one of the oldest wooden churches in Latgale. In 1626 it passed into the hands of the Jesuits who rebuilt it. Restoration work was carried out on this church in 1675, but after 10 years, in 1685, the church burned down. Until 1709 there was a temporary church in Auleja.

The foundation stone of the St. Mary Magdalene church was laid on August 5, 1858, and the church was consecrated on March 13, 1860. However, additions such as the north nave, the tower and its spire and the south transseptal chapel made the construction of the church last until 1883.

St. Mary Magdalene Church is an Armenian Orthodox religious building built from 1986 to 1990 in a postmodern style. In the early 1980s, the non-profit organization Foundation for the Armenian Church in Belgium started to raise funds for the construction of a church. His project was designed by the architect Haïk Mardikian and the engineer Jacques Kupélian who were inspired by the shape of the Holy Cross Church of Aghtamar.

The St Mary of the Isle Cathedral, also referred to as the Cathedral of St Mary of the Isle, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Douglas, Isle of Man. It is one of two cathedrals on the Island, and one of six Catholic churches.

The Church of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven is one of the most famous monuments of Krakow and Poland. It is a Gothic church built in the 14th and 15th centuries.

St. Mary's Cathedral is the Catholic Cathedral of Minsk. The building was built in 1710 in the Baroque style as a Jesuit church. When the Society of Jesus was dissolved in 1773 by Clement XIV under the pressure of the European monarchies, it was transferred to the diocese. When the Diocese of Minsk was established in 1798, it became the Orthodox Cathedral of the diocese. It was used as a sports hall from 1934 under the USSR regime and was handed over to Catholic worship during the German occupation. After the reconquest of Minsk by the Soviets, the church was redesigned and incorporated into a Stalin-Classicist housing development - the main façade was transformed, the towers demolished and the interiors reused as a sports facility. It was given back to the Roman Catholics after the independence of Belarus in the 1990s, the towers and façade restored in that period (1994-97).