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The St. Nicholas Church is said to be one of the oldest buildings. It was simultaniously built with the rest of the city. The building has been restored many times.

St. Nicholas Church of Plaani is an Orthodox church first built in wood in 1846 and replaced by a historicist brick and stone church completed in 1873 and consecrated in 1874.

The St. Nicholas Church in Ruská Bystrá is the smallest and most eastern of UNESCO's wooden churches in the Slovak Carpathians. The church was built in 1730 and contains a rare "Crucifixion" on the altar.

St. Nicholas Miracle Worker's Church is an Orthodox church built in 1870. The church was erected in the style of the national buildings in yellow painted wood, with a cross plan. In front of the entrance of the church, there is a porch supported by six columns, on which a patron saint icon is hung.

The monastery of St. Nicholas is an Orthodox monastery whose date of foundation is unknown. However, we know that renovations took place in the 14th century. The monastery is known as much for its Byzantine architecture as for its picturesque location.

St. Nicholas Cathedral is the Roman Catholic cathedral of Kyiv. It was built between 1899 and 1909 in the neo-Gothic style by the Ukrainian architect Vladislav Gorodetsky and Emilio Sala. In 1938, the Soviet authorities closed the cathedral. After its restoration in 1979-1980 by the architects O. Grauzhis and I. Tukalevskiy, the church became the seat of the National Institute of Organ and Chamber Music of Ukraine. Masses and other liturgical celebrations have been allowed in the cathedral since 1992.

The church "St. Nicholas Summer" is a neoclassical style church in the village of Mavrovo. The church was built by the master builders of the Debar school in 1850. The icons of the throne were painted in 1855 by the famous master of Debar, Dicho Zograf. The church was sunk under Lake Mavrovo in 1953, but by the beginning of the 21st century, it had largely emerged out of the water due to droughts. In the mid-1990s, construction of a new St. Nicholas church in Mavrovo began and was completed in 2006.

The St. Nicholas Cathedral is a sacred building from the beginning of the Baroque period, built in 1661 on the site of an old Gothic church under the hill of Bratislava Castle.

St. Nicholas' Church is a brick church in late Gothic style, the largest medieval church in Lower Lausitz. The church was first mentioned in 1156, but the present church was built from the second half of the 15th century, with construction continuing until the 16th century. The church was extensively renovated between 1910 and 1911. During the Second World War the church burned down and had to be restored in the post-war period.

St. Nicholas' Church is a wooden Orthodox church built in 1777. On the main facade, there is a three-storey bell tower. Inside, the apse is enhanced by various two-storey wooden iconostases made in the 1830s.