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The church of St. Demetrios near Ano Viranepiskopi is a three-aisled Byzantine basilica with a domed chapel on its southern side.

The church of St. Dimitri was built in the 18th century on the remains of a 16th-century church. The present building owes its present appearance to the renovations and extensions carried out between 1886 and 1894. Its bell tower dates from 1908. From the 18th to the middle of the 19th century, the church was also the Cathedral of Skopje, before the construction of the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary.

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The church of St. Dionys dates back to the 13th and 14th centuries. An excavation museum was built under the church on the Esslingen market square in the 1960s. It shows the foundations of the walls of the former churches, attested on this site since 777. The church's greatest treasure is the magnificent stained glass windows in the choir dating from around 1300.

The Church of St. Dmitry (Biserica Sfântul Dumitru) is an Orthodox church built between 1890 and 1899. The church was closed and looted under the Soviet regime. The church was reopened in 1990. In 2005, a fire caused severe damage to the interior of the nave and the bell tower. The church was restored in 2016.

St. Dorothea is a 14th century Gothic hall church, originally an augustinian hermits monastery, and then Franciscan. After the dissolution of the order in 1810, the building experienced a century of decay; the building was finally fully restored after the second world war.

The church of St. Duha stands on the southern shore of Lake Bohinj. The church and the bell tower were built in the Baroque style in 1743. The interior of the church was whitewashed during the renovation in 1981, although 12 frescoes were discovered there. On the external facade, on the east side of the presbytery, there is a large fresco of St. Christopher. The church has two bells.

The church of St. Elijah the Prophet dates from 1883, but its bell tower is a more recent construction, dating from 1925. In 1960, renovation work was carried out. During and after the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the church and the parish house were damaged. Reconstruction work was carried out between 2004 and 2005 without expert supervision.

The Orthodox Church of St. Elijah in Nizhny Terebiazhiv was built in 1872 out of wood. At the end of the 20th century, a bell tower was built.

The Church of St. Elijah was built in the 1650s in the style of early Ukrainian Baroque. After the Second World War, a museum of the national hero Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1648 - 1657), who was supposed to be buried here, was opened in the church. In 1954, a symbolic granite tombstone in his honour was erected in the church according to the design of architect I. Shmulson. Since 1990, the church has been returned to the religious community.