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Striking in its symmetry with its central round headed doorway flanked by matching round headed windows, Cautley Wesleyan chapel is a good example of its type and date.

Built in the late middle ages to the 15th century the Synagogue in Cavaillon is one of the oldest French synagogues. The building was reconstructed between 1772 and 1774. The Synagogue was constructed in a rococo style with a mix of Jewish and Provençale culture.

St. Patrick-and-St. Felim Cathedral in Cavan is a Catholic cathedral built from 1938 to 1942. The cathedral was built in a neo-classical style by John Sisk & Son, under the direction of the architectural firm W.H. Byrne & Son. The Roman Catholic Church did not officially have a cathedral for three centuries: Cavan Parish Church, the former Catholic Cathedral, did not take this title until 1862.

The cave church, or "Saint Ivan’s Cave" (after a hermit who supposedly lived there) was founded in 1926 by Pauline monks. Shelter during the Second World War, closed by the communist regime, the site was reopened as a church only in 1991.

The cave church of Panagia Matala was founded during the Byzantine period in a cave of the village of Matala.

The cave church of St. Anastasia is located on the outskirts of Kainourio Chorio. It is one of 265 cave churches on the island of Crete.

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The Church of St. Anthony (Agios Antonios) is a cave church near the village of Agia Roumeli. It has been excavated into the rocky mountainside that separates the coast from the Samaria National Park.

The rock church of St. Peter and Paul, begun in the 13th century, is located in a cave on Mount Kalik. The church is the only one in the world to contain an image of Jesus Christ depicted as bald.

The Cave Hermitage of San Vicente de Cervera has the unique feature of not being built in the traditional manner but rather is entirely carved out of a rock that emerges from the ground. It is a monolithic building with several openings and interior spaces, although in the past it had other built elements or outbuildings attached to the rock. It also has an adjacent necropolis, with anthropomorphic tombs dating from the 8th to 10th centuries, immediately after the recovery of the territory after the brief Saracen occupation that would have administered that territory.