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Wettingen-Mehrerau Abbey was built in 1227 by Ulrich X, Count of Bregenz. During the Thirty Years' War, the abbey was devastated by the Swedes and was in great need of repair. In 1738 the reconstruction of the church was completed and the monastic buildings were built between 1774 and 1781. In February 1807, the church was closed and the remaining buildings were auctioned off. Between 1808 and 1809 the church was demolished.

Wetzlar Cathedral, which is not the seat of a bishop, was built from the 13th to the 15th century on a Romanesque church, but its construction remained unfinished. As the number of canons and vicars of the church declined throughout the 16th century, an agreement was reached in 1561 for the joint use of the church by the Catholic canons and the increasingly Lutheran inhabitants of Wetzlar. In the following years, however, there were repeated disputes: the canons prohibited Lutherans from entering the church. In return, the Protestant community occupied the nave in 1567. From 1571, the canons no longer celebrated mass in the choir of St. Mary's Church. Nevertheless, the church choir remained a Catholic institution upon the intervention of the Archbishop of Trier. At the end of the 16th century an agreement was finally reached.

Whitby Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery founded in 657 by the Anglo-Saxon King of Northumbria Oswiu (642-670). In 867 the abbey was ruined by the Vikings and then abandoned. William of Percy, a feudal baron, ordered the refoundation of the abbey in 1078, which was done by Regenfrith, a soldier monk who dedicated it to St Peter and St Hilda. This second monastery was destroyed by Henry VIII of England in 1540 and the abbey buildings fell into ruins, serving as a stone quarry and a landmark for sailors.

The White Church of Daugavgriva is a Lutheran church built between 1786 and 1788. It has long been regarded as the "fishermen's church" because local tradition suggests that the church tower was built to serve as a lighthouse as well.

Ruins of the late 12th century church of a small nunnery of 'white ladies' or Augustinian canonesses. The priory enjoyed a moment of high drama in 1651 when it briefly became the hiding place of Charles II after his defeat at the Battle of Worcester. Disguised as a woodsman with his face covered in soot, he soon moved to nearby Boscobel House.

The White Mosque ( Turkish : Beyaz Camii ) is a ruined mosque in Berat Castle. It received the status of cultural monument in 1961. But during the communist period, the mosque was badly damaged. Its minaret was destroyed. The prayer place and congregation place was used as a football field as it still is today.

The White Mosque is one of the oldest mosques in Sarajevo. It was built by Haji-Hajdar Effendi, secretary of Gazi Husrev-beg (Ottoman governor of the region in the early 16th century), somewhere between 1536 and 1545, like the Bey Mosque. A kuttaband, a clock tower, was built next to the mosque, which was demolished during Austro-Hungarian rule.

The White Stork Synagogue opened in 1829 and is designed in a Neoclassical style by the architect Carl Ferdinand Langhans. The synagogue was in use until 1974 when it was taken by authorities and given to the University of Wroclaw. In 2010 reconstruction on the synagogue was completed and it is now a Jewish heritage museum.

The White Synagogue in Joniškis is an Ashkenazi synagogue built in brick between 1864 and 1865. The baroque and neo-classical synagogue has had to be renovated several times since the post-war period, most recently for its transformation into a cultural centre.

Wiblingen Abbey was founded in 1093 by Counts Hartmann and Otto de Kirchberg. Throughout the Middle Ages, the abbey became famous for its school activities and its strict adherence to the rule of St. Benedict, which made it a stronghold of the Benedictines in Germany. From 1714 onwards, the abbey was modernised. Most of the monuments were transformed into Baroque style, except for the church, which was restored in neoclassical style. The famous library to the north of the abbey was also designed by Wiedemann and completed in 1744. The facade of this building was modelled on that of the Vienna Imperial Library.