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The church of St. Sava is a Romanesque building with a single nave and a semicircular apse facing east, without a bell tower. The restorations carried out after the earthquake of 1979 helped to elucidate the ancient history of the church's creation by the discovery of an inscription testifying to the existence of the church as early as the 12th century. On this occasion, it was also discovered that there was a fresco under the plaster that covered the interior of the church. According to the first hypotheses, this rather damaged wall painting dates back to the 12th century and belongs to the Byzantine style of the time.

The Church of St. Sava in Savinac was built in 1819-1820 from pink sandstone, in the spirit of the religious constructions of medieval Serbia, at the instigation of Prince Miloš Obrenović who was one of the main leaders of the second Serbian uprising against the Ottomans. In 1860 it was provided with a wooden narthex, which was replaced in 1904 by a stone narthex.

The Church of St. Sava was built between 1940 and 1966. The foundation stone of the church was solemnly laid by the Patriarch of His Holiness Gavrilo V on 22 September 1940. In April 1941, when the Second World War reached the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the church was almost completely finished. In the first days of the war, the Church of St. Sava was severely destroyed. After the war, the church was restored and completed in 1966. The church was also badly damaged in the great earthquake of 1979. The first restoration took place in 1995 and the second in 2005.

The Church of St Sebastian (Igreja de São Sebastião) is a Roman Catholic church built in the 14th century.

The church of St. Sebastian is the oldest Catholic parish church in Mannheim, dating from the 18th century. It was first used as a court church by the Elector and was decorated by artists such as Bibiena, Verschaffelt and Egell. The furniture was damaged by alterations in the 19th century and by damage during the Second World War.

The Church of St. Simeon and the Prophetess Anne is the Orthodox Apostolic Cathedral in Tallinn. It was built between 1752 and 1755 on the initiative of seafarers. As the coastline was then much closer to the city, the church was almost on the waterfront and the foundations had to be filled in. According to tradition, shipwrecks were used for this purpose. The historic wooden building suffered during the Soviet era but has now been completely restored.

The Church of St. Sophia, with its medieval architecture and frescoes, is one of the most important monuments in Macedonia. It is believed to have been built in the 9th century, the present church is a reconstruction of the 11th century, but the courtyard was built later, in the 14th century. In the second half of the 15th century, with the Ottomans, the church was transformed into a mosque and all the frescoes were covered with lime, the dome of the church was flattened, minarets were erected over the northwestern domes. Left abandoned in the first half of the 20th century, restorations carried out immediately after the Second World War revealed the frescoes again.

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The Roman Catholic Church of St. Stanislav was built in 1882 on a previous church built in 1793. The church is a rectangular three-storey building built in an eclectic style with rock. The facades are finished with borders, pilasters, intermediate cornices of red brick. The church has pointed arch windows whose painted stained glass windows have been preserved.

The Parish Church of St. Stanisław the Bishop and St. Barbara in Szyk was built in 1633.