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The first church on the site of today's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was built during the Ottoman period. It was destroyed after the 1875 uprising against the Turks. After the First World War, a new cathedral was built on this site between 1925 and 1939, but in 1941 it was bombed and its apse was badly damaged. Left in ruins by the communist regime, it was not until 1993 that the cathedral was rebuilt and finally completed in 2009.

Christchurch Priory, an 11th century Grade 1 Listed building, given five stars in Simon Jenkins seminal work on English Parish Churches. The Priory is the longest parish church in the country and has been a place of worship for centuries and offers peace and calm and an opportunity for prayer.

Christian's Church is a rococo style church built between 1754 and 1759 and was originally called Frederiks German Church, having served as a church for the German community for a long time.

Christiansborg Palace Church is a church of the Royal Palace. It is used for the ceremonies of members of the royal family. The original castle church was built between 1738 and 1742 during the construction of the first Christiansborg Castle. It was lost in the Christiansborg fire in 1794. As much of the exterior walls and partitions surviving the fire, they were reused in the present church. In its current architecture, the church of the castle was built in the years 1813-1826 in the classical style by the architect C.F. Hansen. Burned again in 1992, the church reopened in 1997.

The present building of the Protestant parish church dates from 1859 to 1863 and replaced a house of prayer built in 1785, after the "patent of tolerance" of Joseph II (1781) authorising Protestant worship. The Protestant parish church in Hallstatt is a listed monument in Austria.

The Evangelical Lutheran Christuskirche was built from 1674 to 1677 with a Capuchin monastery responsible for the implementation of the Counter-Reformation in the region. In 1802, the monastery was dissolved and the monastery church was converted into several storage barns. Reused by Protestants from 1855, the church was restored and given a bell tower in the second half of the 19th century.

The church of Saint-Gorgon, a Historic Monument since 1977, dates from the end of the 12th century. The church, oriented West-East, with four bays, initially ended with a flat chevet to which a five-sided sacristy was later added. However, the three lancets can still be seen in the sacristy. The nave is topped by a gabled roof and the chancel by a hipped roof. The entrance to the building is an open wooden porch (late 15th or 16th century). Once inside you can admire the 18th-century high altar with a copy of a painting by Van Dyck and terracotta statues. The octagonal baptismal basin, perhaps dating from the 16th century, is also worth noting.

The Chrysoskalitissa Convent was built in the 17th century. Rebuilt in 1894, only a monk and a nun live in the building and maintain it.

Presumably, the cemetery was established at the end of the 19th century. According to maps and epigraphic data, it already existed in the 1880s. The cemetery was operating after WWII, the latest preserved gravestone relates to the 1960s.

The exact date of the establishment of the cemetery is unknown, however the oldest tombstone dates back to 1885. The cemetery has around 300 gravestones and is well-maintained.