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The Church of St. John the Sepulchre is a Romanesque church from the 11th century. It is a fabulous example of construction from the Norman period, perhaps erected by Bohemond I of Antioch when he was returning from the Crusades as is the local tradition. In 1761 an earthquake destroyed most of the buildings in Brindisi; the Church of St John at the Sepulchre did not collapse but suffered considerable damage, leading to a long deterioration and the loss of 80% of the frescoed surface, until the restoration in the mid-19th century.

The Church of St. John the Theologian is a wooden Orthodox church located in the village of Damashany. The village has had a church since 1507, but the present church is modelled on the renovation of the church at the beginning of the 20th century. The church survived World War II but was destroyed by the Soviet authorities after the war. The restoration of the church began in 1994 and was completed in 1997.

The Church of St. John the Theologian is a wooden Orthodox church built in the 1930s in the village of Zavalki. In 1962 the parish priest died and the church was closed. Until 1991 the building was used by local collective farms as a granary. In 1993 the church was consecrated again.

The church of St. John the Theologian was built in 1861. During the uprising in Ilinden-Preobrazhenie in 1903, it was burnt down, and in 1921 it was rebuilt. The church is built as a three-nave basilica with a dome, the central nave is half-cylinder vaulted, and the side is covered with flat ceilings. There is a gallery inside on the west side, and on the east side, it ends with a polygonal apse on the outside. The temple is made of stone, and the arches and vaults are made of wood.

The Orthodox Church of St. John the Theologian is an Orthodox church built in 1913 on the site of a former church from the first half of the 19th century. The entrance is decorated with a two-pillar porch under a gable roof.

The Church of St. John the Theologian is a wooden Orthodox church built in 1817. In front of the church, there is a bell tower with a tented roof. The architecture of the temple is reminiscent of the wooden vernacular architecture of Belarus.

The Church of St. John was built in the 13th century, during the Christianisation of the Baltic States, for the needs of the Order of Livonia. The church became the seat of the International Festival of Young Organists and world-famous choral and organ concerts are held there.

The Church of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist, or Church of St. Johns, is a late Baroque church. A wooden church was built on the market square as early as 1387, but it was replaced by a Gothic stone church with three naves, which was consecrated in 1427. In 1571, the church was entrusted to the Polish Jesuits by King Sigismund Augustus, who completely transformed it in the Renaissance style. A bell tower was erected at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, then chapels, crypts, etc. were added. After a fire in 1737, the façade was redecorated in the Jesuit style, notably by Johann Christoph Glaubitz. The interior was redesigned in 1825-1829 and the façade was completely rebuilt with columns of the neo-classical Corinthian order. The church now serves as a church for the University of Vilnius.

The history of the parish church of St. Joseph Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Warsaw dates back to the erection of the parish in 1938. In the same year, a temporary wooden chapel was consecrated and the construction of the present brick church, designed by Felix Michalski, began. The church was consecrated in 1963. The decoration of the upper church is stylistically very heterogeneous. It includes naturalistic and abstract, historicist and modern, and transitional works.

The church of St. Joseph the Worker was built from 1935 to 1939. The church is in neo-baroque style and was built according to the plan of the local architect Jan Kapołka.