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St. Michael's Cathedral is a rare example of a rotunda church in the Catholic architecture of Belarus. It was built as the church of the Piarist monastery in Lida, between 1797 and 1825, and was dedicated to St. Joseph. The monastery was closed in 1832 and the church burnt down in 1842. In 1863 it was converted into an Orthodox church and dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel. After the Second World War, the building was converted into a planetarium and did not return to its original use until after independence.

The Cathedral of St. Michael, one of the oldest cathedrals in Hungary, was founded in the 10th century by Gisela of Hungary, thus naming the city of Veszprém "city of queens".

St Michael's Cathedral was built in 1856 at the expense of the Zhytomyr merchant Mykhailo Khabotin († 1861). After the October Revolution and until 1927, the church functioned as a temple of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox community. Under the prologue of renovation, the church was closed, after which the church building was used for a long time for other purposes. During the Second World War, the church was returned to the faithful and remained in use until 1960. On 21 November 1991, the church premises were returned to the religious community of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

St. Michael's Church is an Ottonian, pre-Romanesque church founded in 1010. Until the Reformation it was the abbey church of the Benedictine abbey of the same name. Today it is a Protestant-Lutheran parish church. Since 1985, the church, together with Hildesheim Cathedral, has been a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site.

St. Michael's Church was built in 1628 as the monastery church of the Jesuit community in Aachen. With the abolition of the Jesuit order in September 1773, the church was closed and during the French period, it was converted into a grain store. In 1804 it became a Catholic parish church. In 1987, the church was acquired by the Greek Orthodox parish of St. Dimitrios.

St. Michael's Church is an Orthodox church, a monument of Baroque architecture. It was built along with a wooden belfry at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries and restored in the 1860s. The apse is distinguished by various wooden iconostases made in the 1830s.

The Roman Catholic Church St. Michael, built between 1316 and 1487, is one of the most representative monuments of Gothic architecture in Transylvania. The building, located in the central square, is one of the emblematic monuments of the city. It is inscribed on the list of historical monuments of Cluj County.

St. Michael's Church is a memorial church for the victims of the Chernobyl disaster. The first church was founded in 1763 for a Uniate (Greek Catholic) community. In 1847 a new church was completed. With the Chernobyl accident on 26 April 1986, the village of Vyleva was radiologically contaminated, the inhabitants were evicted and the church was abandoned. In 2000, a plan was drawn up to move the church to Gomel. The church was consecrated in Gomel on 26 April 2006. It is the only church in Belarus that was moved from the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

St. Michael's Church in Jõhvi is a fortress church first mentioned in connection with the Russian plundering expeditions in 1364. The church was built as a fortress church and surrounded by a moat. The church suffered several times from wars, at the beginning of the Livonian War in 1558 and during the Great Northern War in 1703. Subsequently, the church was given a baroque bell tower in 1728. The present neo-Gothic bell tower dates from 1875.

St. Michael's Church is an Orthodox church built of wood in 1991. It also has a small unpainted wooden chapel, which is separate from the building.