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Michael the Archangel belongs to the sacral buildings of the fortress character. It was fortified with a wall, originally perhaps a wooden palisade, corner bastions and a tower-like entrance gate. Between the fortification and the church there was a cemetery, while after 1688 the south-western bastion was used as a carnery.

The Church of St. Michael the Archangel is one of Poland's wooden churches listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Dating from the 16th century, the current building dates from 1791. Abandoned after the Second World War, the church was renovated in 2004-2005. The only unchanged element of the original church is a fragment of polychrome representing a curtain supported by angels and empty cartridges.

The Parish Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Szalowa was erected in 1736 or 1739.

The Lutheran Church of St. Michael was built in 1824, although the first Baldone Church dates back to the mid-16th century. In 1637 this first church had already collapsed and in 1638 a new wooden church was built, decorated with stained glass windows. The third building of the church was built in logs, between 1730 and 1735. The present church was built between 1823 and 1824. The church was built as a one-storey longitudinal building in Empire style with a multi-storey tower. In 1930, major repairs were carried out. During the Soviet occupation, the church became a factory. The church building regained its function at independence.

The church of St. Michael dates back to the 14th century, while the tower was built in the 15th century with a major restoration from 1873 to 1876. Inside, three models of ships are hung from the roof.

The wooden Church of St. Michael was probably built in 1777. Tyvodar Lehotskyy, a Ukrainian historian, believes that the building was actually constructed a while before this date. According to him, 1777 would be the time of the churches' consecration after the building had been renovated. The building is entirely made of oak and the tower is 22 meters high. It is the only remaining classical Lemko wooden church in the Carpathians. The church was built in an old Ukrainian style, with Baroque towers. The building had originally been constructed somewhere else, but it was moved to the Uzhhorod Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life in 1972, after a period of abandonment during the Sovjet times.

The Orthodox Church of St. Michael was built in the 19th century. It is a temple with three naves with an apse and an adjoining bell tower. The main volume and the rectangular apse are covered with a gable roof. The lower extension of the apse (sacristy) is covered with a separate pitched roof.

Although the church of St. Neže has Romanesque origins, the church got its present exterior around 1879. Above the sacristy, there is a bell tower with one of the oldest bells in Gorenjska dating from 1423. On the outer facade of the church, there is a fragment of a late Gothic fresco depicting the patron saint of pilgrims, St. Christopher, and a Romanesque semicircular window.

The Church of St. Nicholas was built in the 14th and 15th centuries. It is famous for its two towers which owe their difference to the fact that the top of the north tower was poorly built. The canopy was completed in 1617 and still adorns the north tower today. Renovations took place in the years 1821 to 1824, 1877 and 1934 to 1936. Further renovations to the roof took place in 1974, the interior was renovated from 1986 to 1994.

The Church of St. Nicholas, the oldest in the town, dates from the 13th century. The neo-Gothic reconstruction was carried out from 1824 to 1828. The spire was badly damaged during the Second World War and replaced by a tent roof after the end of the war.