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In the modern neo-Byzantine temple, which was built in the mid-1980s, there are icons and mosaics depicting the fate and work of the Apostles of the Slavs. The emphasis is on their Great Moravian mission - the creation of the Glagolitic script, the sending of Emperor Michael III and Patriarch Photius to Great Moravia, the suffering of Archbishop Methodius in a Bavarian prison and the death of St. Cyril in Rome.

The Church of Saints Faustinus and Jovita was probably founded as a monastery church in the 9th century. The present Baroque church was built between 1621 and 1711 when its façade was completed. However, the church was partially rebuilt from the second half of the 18th century after being damaged by a large fire in 1743. The church houses the remains of the two patron saints of Brescia, Saints Faustina and Jovita, as well as those of St. Honorius and St. Antigio, making the church a high place of devotion for the city.

The Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Heraklion was built during the early Venetian era as the catholicon of the Monastery of the Dominican Order. It is located next to the sea wall that surrounded the city in medieval times.

The small Russian Orthodox Church of Saints Peter and Paul was built from 1979 to 1982. It is the first Russian Orthodox church in the country, but it is open to all Orthodox Christians, be they Russian, Ethiopian, Serbian, Bulgarian, etc.

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The building in the heart of the village, surrounded by a walled-in cemetery and vegetation, has a country charm. The church was reconstructed after the terrible destruction endured particularly during the battle of the Ardennes in 1944.

In the 4th century A.D., the hill on which the church stands was fortified with towers and a surrounding wall. Around the year 1000, a Romanesque building was erected in the form of a three-nave basilica. In the 15th century, the church was transformed and enlarged in the Gothic style. After the Second World War, archaeological excavations and restoration work gave the Sanctuary its present appearance.

The Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus is an Orthodox place of worship in Gavalochori.

The "Chiesa dei Santi Severino e Sossio" is a 16th-century Benedictine church. It belonged to the convent of the same name, which today houses the State Archives of Naples.

The church of Saints Simon and Helena, also known as the red church, was built between 1905 and 1910. In 1932 it was closed to worship by the Soviet authorities and donated to a Polish theatre company. Later it was converted into a film studio. The Germans returned the church to worship in 1941. After the Second World War, it was restored to become a film studio again, and in 1975 it became the House of Cinema. The church of Saint-Siméon-et-Sainte-Hélène was finally returned to Catholic worship in 1990.