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The Evangelical Church was built from 1784 to 1786, but the congregation worked on its expansion until 1936, when it acquired its final appearance. In 1796 a tower was built, which was raised in 1825. Between 1850 and 1860, the facades were decorated in a classical and neo-baroque style, then in 1885-6 in an eclectic style.

The Evangelical Church of the Resurrection was built from 1856 to 1858. The church was designed by the Berlin architect Richard Lucae and built in the neo-Romanesque style in a variant of the "Rundbogenstil". The rather small church was enlarged in the years 1887-1889 and 1899-1902. After the Second World War, between 1945 and 1947, the church was taken over by the Roman Catholic Church.

The Evangelical Church of Christ, or "red church", was built in 1905-1907 in the style of the Dutch Renaissance. Like many Protestant churches in Central Europe, it was once owned by German Protestants until the Second World War.

The Evangelical City Church of Monschau (Evangelische Stadtkirche) is an 18th-century building standing in the centre of the village.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Anne is the oldest church in Liepaja. The building dates back to 1587 and the tower was built between 1688 and 1693. The building and the towers were rebuilt in the second half of the 19th century. The church organ, built in 1913, is the third largest in Latvia.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Nicholas is named after Nicholas I following a donation from the Emperor to build the church between 1834 and 1835. The church remained intact during the two World Wars, but was restored at the beginning of the 21st century.

The Evangelical Methodist Church in Shumen is a testimony to the arrival of the first Methodist missionaries in Bulgaria in 1857. After the fall of communism, only three churches survived, one of which is located near Oborishte Square.

The Baroque castle chapel in the Schloss Weesenstein received its solemn consecration on June 23, 1741 as a private chapel of the king of Saxony. In 1870, King John of Saxony handed the chapel to the citizens: he had himself set up a small Catholic chapel in the former washhouse.

The town's Protestant church is a Gothic hall church built from 1300. The nave dates from the second half of the 14th century. The tower, typical of the region, was originally crowned with a pointed helmet above four stone gables. Its upper floors were completed in 1489. The present canopy was added by Theodor Escher between 1809 and 1811.

The Protestant town church was built in 1855-56 by the master-builder F. A. Ritter after a design by the Berlin master builder Karl Friedrich Schinkel for the Preußische Normalkirche. The building is a four-axis hall in ashlar construction with a recessed apse. On the west gallery, there is a late romantic organ with a neo-Renaissance prospectus. It was built in 1902 by Eduard Vogt from Korbach.