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St. Stephen's Church in Mainz was founded in 990 by Archbishop Willigis. The present church was built later, from 1267 to 1340, but has retained the plan of the Willigis building. From 1462 to 1499, the cloister was added to the south side. During the Baroque period, the interior of St. Stephen's Church was decorated accordingly, but in 1857 a nearby powder magazine tower exploded, causing the church to lose its Baroque furnishings.

St. Stephen's Church was built in 1777 in the Baroque style. It was built and probably also designed by Master Hoffer. The church became a parish in 1793. Between 1876 and 1879, and in 1881-82, the ceiling was painted by the painter Dominik Fabris. As the frescoes faded with time, Dean Erzar had them renovated in 1910.

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The St. Thomas Church was built on a Romanesque church of the twelfth century. Between 1492 and 1496, it took the current form of a late-Gothic Hall church. In the 19th century finally, the interior of the Saint-Thomas church was renovated in the neo-Gothic style.

St. Ulrich's Church was built from a porch, which served as a market for St. Ulrich pilgrims and as a burial place for the inhabitants of Augsburg. As early as 1457, the first conversion into a Benedictine sermon house for the community of St. Ulrich took place. In 1526, the church was given to the Protestants as a parish church, a use which it would not have definitively until the Peace of Westphalia (1648). In 1709-10, the congregation led by Marx Loeser decided to fundamentally rebuild the church, which was in need of renovation in the meantime, and the church received approximately its present appearance.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Ulrich was built between 1452 and 1503. The choir tower church has a nave 16 metres long and 11.5 metres wide, and a square choir under the tower, supported by a four-metre ribbed vault. The galleries and barrel vault of the nave date from 1704. The old two-storey bell tower was raised around 1730 and fitted with a baroque dome. Extensive restoration work was carried out from 1990 onwards and was awarded the Thuringian Monument Protection Prize in 2006.

St. Ursula is one of the twelve Romanesque churches of Cologne. Its building was built in the 12th century, but after serious damage during the 2nd World War, a reconstruction took place until 1974.

St. Valentine's Church dates mainly from the late 15th and early 16th centuries, with the side aisles of the church dating back to 1380. The construction of the church building was financed by donations from pilgrims who made a pilgrimage to the relics of St. Valentine. These relics arrived in Kiedrich around 1350 from the neighbouring Cistercian abbey in Eberbach. The church organ is one of the oldest still playable organs in the world, probably built from 1491 onwards. However, over the centuries the instrument has been transformed several times, most notably in 1653 by Johann Wendelin Kirchner.

The construction of the minor basilica of St. Vincent de Paul as a monumental temple began in 1924 to celebrate the return of Pomerania to Poland. The building mixes neoclassical and neo-baroque forms.

St. Vitus Cathedral, founded in 930, is a Gothic church located in Prague Castle. The cathedral is of importance in the art and national heritage of the Czech people and has had a significant impact on the development of latent style of architecture in Central Europe.