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The current church was part of a Dominican monastery complex, of which only a wall remains. The church was built during the 18th century and served as the conventional church of the Dominicans until the monastery was abolished in 1811.

The Dominican monastery was built at the same time as the monastery church in the second half of the 13th century. In 1543 the monastery was secularized, and after a few years (in 1547) it was closed. In the years 1927-28, a general renovation of the monastery was carried out in order to turn it into a regional museum, which until 1945. In 1956 the municipal and district public library was opened there. Currently, the monastery buildings house local cultural institutions: the Cultural Centre Myśliborski and the Municipal Public Library.

The Dominican Monastery in Bol was erected in 1475 very close to the small church of Our Lady of Mercy, on the site of an old castle. It has become one of the best known landmarks on the island of Brac. The Monastery Museum displays an extensive collection of objects ranging from prehistoric artefacts to underwater archaeological discoveries. But its most valuable masterpiece is the painting of Our Lady with the Child and Saints, at the altar of the church.

The Dominican Monastery of St. Nicholas was probably built in the 16th century. The building was seized by the Russians and Montenegrins in 1808. In 1813, the English returned the church and monastery to the Dominicans who occupied it, but it remained closed due to the shortage of monks. It was not until 1844 that the monks returned to the monastery.

The history of this building, one of the oldest churches in the north of the country, is visible in the side walls, the transept of the monastery and the 13th century brick choir.

‘After 83 years Donhead finally has its own Chapel and, as a Jesuit School, is now complete' GC McGrath, Headmaster.

As the ministers of the Mennonite congregation in Pieterzijl preferred to live in Grijpskerk, in 1890 a presbytery was built on the Herestraat in Grijpskerk.

The complex of the Church of the Assumption or Dormition, built in the 16th and 17th centuries, is a Renaissance church, which today is part of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. The structure of the building is supported by columns in the Italian Renaissance style. The walls are separated by pilasters with window arches and bas-reliefs. The interior is decorated with paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries and an iconostasis from 1773.

The "Holy Assumption", built in 1882 - 1886, is the Cathedral of Varna and one of its symbols. Its construction was undertaken by both Bulgarians and Russians after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878.

The Orthodox Cathedral of Cluj-Napoca was built between 1920 and 1930, immediately after the union between Transylvania and Romania. The Brâncovenesc style building is classified as a historical monument.