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The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown, but it can be assumed that the cemetery emerged in the 19th century. The earliest preserved gravestone relates to the mid-19th century. First, it appears on cadastral maps of 1865. The site is unfenced.

The construction of the church began in 1711 with the support of King João V. It belonged to the Order of the Franciscans. The church miraculously survived the earthquake of 1755.

The Pažaislis Church and Monastery is one of the most beautiful examples of Baroque architecture in Lithuania. Construction work was carried out from 1662 to 1712. In 1832, the complex was closed by the Russians and later converted into the Russian Orthodox Church. After 1920, the ruined church was returned to the Catholics. After the Second World War, the Soviet authorities transformed the complex into an archive centre, a psychiatric hospital and, in 1966, an art gallery. In 1990, the buildings were returned to the nuns and a restoration was undertaken.

This Franciscan monastery was constructed in the 13th century. The monastery complex contains a cavernous church featuring a 15th century gilded altarpiece. In addition to this, there is an elaborate Roman mosaic featuring a hippocampus, a mythical Roman fish-tailed horse.

The church and monastery of St. Dominic were founded in the 13th century, but the church of St. Dominic was not completed until the 1370s and the cloister was built in the mid-15th century. This part of the monastery was badly damaged during the Second World War. The eastern wing of the monastery was renovated from 1974 to 1976, and the western wing was renovated by the Institute for the Protection of Monuments in Split.

The collegiate church of the Assumption-Santa Maria Assunta is located in Speloncato, Upper Corsica. It was first a Romanesque church that was built in 1509, but was promoted to a collegiate church in 1749. This required profound changes: the Santa Croce oratory, on the right side, was destroyed and rebuilt, and two collaterals, a baroque choir and exrta decoration were also added. The collegiate church is home to many objects listed as Historical Monuments, including several paintings and a historic organ.

The church in Otrøy is a wooden church from 1878, built by the architect Jacob Wilhelm Nordan.

A Methodist Society was formed in Bardney as early as 1788, 44 years after John Wesley's first conference.

The Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceiçao Velha was founded in the 15th century and rebuilt after the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 to serve a community of monks. It was after this reconstruction that the church acquired its characteristic Manueline style.

The church Notre-Dame du Finistère was built in the 15th century as a small chapel. The church was rebuilt at the beginning of the 17th century as the area was urbanized, but the present building is a third reconstruction, started in 1708 and completed in 1730. Since then, the upper part of the façade was built and crowned with an octagonal dormer window in 1828 and a statue of the Virgin Mary surrounded by the 12 stars of the Apocalypse was fixed there in 1857.