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The mosque of Pasha Qasim, officially the church of the Blessed Virgin, is the most monumental work of Turkish Islamic architecture in Hungary, one of the symbols of Pécs. Originally a Christian temple, the building was transformed into a mosque in the 1560s and became a permanent church again in the 18th century, when its minaret was destroyed (1766).

The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary was founded in 1793 by the Venetian architect Bernardino Macaruzzi, but was extended until 1913. It is a splendid example of the Venetian Baroque style.

Built in the Gothic style. The conventual building in a rustic Franciscan chaple with influences from the early Baroque. At the beginning of the 21st century the church continues to be used for worship. At the central level of the façade are three symmetrically distributed ceramic devotional panels. One of them represents the scene of Saint Francis of Assisi's blessing.

The Church of the Cross is a medieval stone church originally consisting of a nave with a choir, built around 1150. The sacristy was probably built in the High or Low Middle Ages, and in the 18th and 19th centuries the church was extensively rebuilt, so that the church today has a cruciform shape. In 1896, the sacristy was decorated as a chapel, and much of the present church interior dates from the same period. The interior is particularly marked by the renovation of 1896-97.

The church of Monte Calvario, also known as the Church of the Crosses, was built from 1693 to 1742 on the site where Capuchin Father Antonio da Olivadi planted seven crosses on the way of a penitential procession against the famine. The crosses gradually gave way to a complex consisting of a Baroque triumphal arch, five chapels and the church, in the form of a Latin cross.

The Church of the Crucifix was founded in the 15th century, but the current Baroque and Neoclassical building dates from 1937.

The descent of the Holy Spirit, built in 1502, is one of the wooden tserkvas found in Poland and Ukraine. This exceptional Galician-style monument was painted between 1620 and 1640 and restored in 1831, 1903, 1923 and 1970-1972.

The Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit, built in the 15th century, is the oldest preserved wooden church in Ukraine and one of the tserkvas on a UNESCO list. Nowadays, it is used as a museum of wooden architecture and 16th and 19th century painting.

Built in the 13th century in the Romanesque style, the church houses in the choir a remarkable altarpiece in carved wood dating from 1518. In front of the entrance to the sanctuary, in Romanesque style, is one of the most beautiful public fountains in Alsace.

The Roman Catholic Church of the Divine Savior was completed in 1976. It was designed by the architect Janusz Gawor in a postmodern style.