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Originally built around the 1300s as a Catholic church, it was turned into a mosque after the fall of Shkodra in 1479. Until 2017, for 12 consecutive years the parish of St. Stephen's Cathedral held Mass in celebration of the patron saint of the city which was seen by the Mufti of Shkodra as infringement to the inter-religious harmony and tolerance.

In the second half of the 13th century, a chapel erected in Cincşor was the core for building the actual church, which was completed in 1421. The church was fortified step by step in the 15th and 16th century, as testified by the timber frame structures. The chancel was reinforced with buttresses and widened along with the bell tower with a wooden parapet walk. In addition, the villagers built a fortification wall with 4 defence towers and an outer moat around the church. In the following centuries, the village faced difficult times. Among other things, it was burned down during an attack in 1599. The community flourished only after 1850, when not far away from the village a bridge was built for the first time on the river Olt.

From its very beginning the destiny of the Evangelic church in Cincu was to be a bastion of faith, both metaphorically and literally: the western tower was erected at the beginning of the 13th century, it was heightened and strengthened several times, gaining its current appearance after the works in the 18th century. A large part of the two ring walls, which had bastions and defense towers, have been demolished. However, from all the fortified buildings two are still preserved: the so-called old town hall and a defensive storage building. The interior nowadays has the appearance of a hall church, due to the heightening of the aisles to make room for installing the galleries. The wrought iron balustrade was added about a hundred years later. The interior furniture of the church shows an attractive mixture of styles: next to the chancel pews in the late Gothic style there is the Renaissance pulpit, while the classicist organ dominates the Baroque font, epitaphs and pews of the guilds.

The cathedral of Cingoli was built in the middle of the 17th century. The present church, however, is built on the site of a pre-existing cult building dedicated to the Holy Saviour. This was demolished in the first half of the seventeenth century for the construction of the present church, based on the plans of the architect Ascanio Passeri from Pergola; the façade of the previous church was inserted on the left side of the present building.

When the church officially began to exist in 1863, there were about 3,500 members who met for common Sabbath services and prayers. Most of them came from nearby regions. By 1870, their number had grown to 16,000. Until 1880, missionary activity covered only North America (USA and Canada). At the turn of the century, in 1901, the church had 75,000 members, operated two universities, a medical school, 27 hospitals and 13 publishing houses. After the end of II. World War II, the church had 360 thousand members, in 1961 their number reached one million. At the turn of the millennium, there were approximately 10 million Adventists in the world.

Today the church still exhibits the basic characteristics of the three-aisle Romanesque basilica that originally had a six-level western tower. The ensemble was surrounded by a ring wall, which was fortified starting in 1430, when the Ottoman attacks occurred. A second fortification wall was built, as well as several defence towers and a moat. The church itself was also strengthened: defence towers were built above the chancel and its apse and above the two side entrances. The western Romanesque portal is ornamented with typical interlace. The spire roof with corner towers was built as early as 1591. Especially valuable are the altars from other village churches, which are displayed inside. These were brought to Cisnădie for safety reasons.

The church on the hill, today part of the communal property, is one of the few unchanged testimonies of the Romanesque construction time in Transylvania. The small three-aisles basilica was probably built before 1223. The western funnel-shaped portal exhibits particularly beautiful stone masonry. The interior, which nowadays only contains a memorial dedicated to the soldiers fallen in the WWI, impresses by its contemplative style. From the former defence ensemble only rests of the ring wall and its towers are still preserved. Equally remarkable is the village parish church, whose fortification system did not last until today, except for the western tower and its defence level. The single-nave Baroque church was built in 1764 on the foundations of a former Gothic building. The interior furniture, as the pews and the gallery, originates from different Baroque times and are ornamented with rural floral paintings.

The Cistercian monastery was founded in 1196 by monks from Waldsassen Abbey. The abbey church was built between 1206 and 1221 in late Romanesque style and renovated in 1248 in Gothic style. During the Hussite wars (1419-1434), the monastery was destroyed three times. In the 18th century, the church was completely rebuilt under the direction of the architect Ottavio Broggio. The monastery was suppressed and the whole was nationalised, but recently it was returned to the Cistercian order.

The Cathedral of Città della Pieve can boast of its ancient origins. The first cathedral dates back to the 4th-5th centuries. It was replaced by a Romanesque building in the 8th century, itself rebuilt in Gothic style in the 13th century. Only a few traces of these early interventions remain in the present church, which dates back to the 16th and 17th centuries when it became the cathedral of the diocese. The side chapels and the bell tower next to the building date from this period.

The city church of Winterthur was built from the 13th to the 19th century. Apart from the tower, the oldest part that still exists today is the Romanesque-early-Gothic choir, which was built in the middle of the 13th century. It was built as an extension of the nave on the model of the Fraumünster in Zurich. Serious damage during the city fire of 1313 made its reconstruction necessary. From 1486 to 1490, a second tower was built on the south side of the choir. The nave was built between 1501 and 1518 and extended ten metres further west but was somewhat narrower than before.