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The Church of St. Anthony of Padua was built in 1938 according to the plans of the Roman architect Simon (1900-1981). This neo-Romanesque church, which imitates the churches of northern Italy, replaces an old church from 1886. In 1944, when Soviet troops occupied the town, the church was put out of use and in the years to come it was vandalized. In 1947, the church was returned to the Catholics. Abandoned in the early 1950s, the church was restored in the same decade, then in the 1980s and in 2012.

The Church of St. Anthony of Padua was built from 1907 to 1912 and designed by the German architect J. F. Klompa. The church has a neo-baroque style with elements of modernism. Since 1994, the church has been listed in the register of monuments and was renovated from 1998 to 2002.

The Church of St. Anthony Padewski and St. Stanislaus Kostka was built in 1696-1704 as a joint church for Lutherans and Calvinists. The church is associated with the eminent evangelical philosopher and theologian Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768-1834). He was curate from 1794 to 1796 and spent his free time translating, among other things, the writings of the English preacher Blair. Since 1945, the church has been in the possession of the Capuchin order.

The church of St. Anthony in Pula was built between 1929 and 1931. The small monastery adjoining the church was completed in 1934. The church was still being renovated and in 1936 it received a marble paving, in 1939 an apse was built, in 1941 an altar of the Virgin Mary Immaculate, and in 1943 a paving and a fence of the presbytery (today next to the statue of St. Anthony).

Church of St. Bartholomew in Łapanów was built in 1529, and rebuilt after the destruction in 1614, together with a new chapel by the nave.

The Church of St. Bartholomew was built in the second half of the 13th century in the early Gothic style. In the 14th century, after the church fire, Petr Parléř completely rebuilt a larger choir with chapels. A bell tower was added at the beginning of the 16th century.

Church of St. Bartholomew in Poręba Wielka was built in the 16th century and is one of the oldest churches in the Silesian Foothills.

The Church of St. Basil of Caesarea is a Serbian Orthodox church built in 1886. The interior of the church was built gradually over a period of more than forty years. During the 1992-1995 war, the building and the interior of the church suffered significant damage. Only two of the icons that were placed on the iconostasis were preserved, the icon of St. John and the icon of St. Venerable Mother Paraskeva.

A wooden Church of St. Basil is mentioned for the first time in documents from 1564-1565. There is no knowledge of a previous church in the area. According to the inscription above the southern door, the current church would have been built in 1733. During the twentieth century, the central dome has been demolished by a storm and restored in 1970.

The Church of St. Benedict was built in the 15th century when Benedictine nuns settled on the present site to erect their church. After the Val di Noto earthquake in 1693, the complex was rebuilt from 1704 and completed in 1763 with work on the façade by Giovanni Battista Vaccarini and the interior decoration and fresco painting by Giovanni Tuccari. After the 1943 bombings that hit the building hard, the splendid frescoes painted between 1726 and 1729, largely covered at the end of the 18th century, resurfaced.