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The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary was built in the 14th century in Gothic style on the site of an old Romanesque building from the early 13th century. In 1995, the church was declared a national cultural monument.

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The Cathedral of the Assumption is the Catholic cathedral of Carlow. Work on the neo-Gothic cathedral began on 7 April 1828 under the supervision of the architect Joseph Lynch, followed in 1829 by Thomas Cobden who modified the plans. It was completed in 1833.

The Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built between 1902 and 1906 on a former 17th-century Catholic church. During the French Revolution, the future Louis XVIII lived in Jelgava with a courtyard, which left the church with very luxurious liturgical utensils. Although it briefly bore the title of cathedral between 1783 and 1798, it was not until 1995 that the church was finally erected as a cathedral.

The Cathedral of the Dormition of the Holy Mother of God, the Orthodox Cathedral of the Diocese of Plovdiv, is a landmark of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, being at the centre of its independence in 1870. At the place where the cathedral was built in 1844, it seems that in the 9th and 10th centuries there was a Christian shrine.

The Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God was the most important Ukrainian Orthodox church in Kharkiv until the construction of the Annunciation Cathedral in 1901. The first mention of the cathedral in written sources dates back to 1658. However, the present cathedral was built in the years 1771-1777 in the style of Russian Baroque. To commemorate the victory over Napoleon, a 90-metre high bell tower was built in the years 1821-1844. In 1929, the atheist authorities closed the cathedral, demolished its domes and removed the bell from the tower. The decorative elements of the façade were also destroyed. In the 1950s, however, several renovations took place. A tornado damaged the tower in 1975.

The Cathedral of the Epiphany is an Orthodox church which is part of the complex of the former Monastery of the Epiphany, an architectural monument of the 18th century. In 1761, the monks began the construction of the present cathedral, made of stone. The cathedral was consecrated on 5 August 1777. Three fragments of frescoes from the second half of the 18th century have been preserved. In the cathedral was the famous list of the miraculous Iberian Icon of the Mother of God, whose paternity was attributed to the Evangelist Luke.

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is a Greek-Catholic temple from the mid-19th century. The foundation stone of the building was laid on May 13, 1859. It is a single-nave church with neo-Gothic and neo-Renaissance elements.

The Cathedral of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul is the oldest church in Minsk still in use. It was built between 1612 and 1630 together with a monastery of the same name. At the beginning of the 18th century, the monastery was almost completely destroyed during the Great Northern War. Empress Catherine II (1762-1796) had the monastery church renovated between 1793 and 1795, but the monastery was then dissolved. In 1812, during the advance of Napoleon's troops against Russia, the Peter and Paul Church was destroyed by French soldiers and served as a field hospital for two months. The church was renovated between 1870 and 1871. The church was closed by the Bolsheviks in 1933 and resumed definitively in 1991.

The Cathedral of the Holy Dormition, built in the second half of the 18th century, is an emblem of Cossack Baroque. It was the first stone cathedral in Poltava. The cathedral building is two-storey in the style of a Byzantine basilica, with three domes. About 10 years later, around 1780, the cathedral was rebuilt. Two more domes were added above the altar.