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Wooden Church of the Holy Cross is mentioned for the first time in documents from 1496. The building was burned down during an attack on the city in 1499. A new church was not built until 1613. The building got a second floor in 1661. A renovation was conducted in 1715. The church closed in 1961 and was restored between 1970 and 1971.

The Church of the Holy Cross, first mentioned in 1324, is the oldest church in the historical province of Tavastia. The present brick church is believed to have been completed at the end of the 15th century. The Church of the Holy Cross in Hattula and the Church of St. Lawrence in Lohja are the most important pictorial churches in Finland, and they are considered sister churches because of the richness of their paintings.

The Church of the Holy Cross was built between 1903 and 1963. The construction of the church was interrupted many times, mainly during the two World Wars but also due to the repercussions of the world crisis that hit Poland in the 1930s. Nevertheless, the builders remained faithful to the original neo-gothic design of the church by Stanisław Szpakowski.

The Church of the Holy Cross was probably completed between 1515 and 1520 and was originally built as the church of the Franciscan convent in Rauma. The Church of the Holy Cross served as a Franciscan church until 1538 when the monastery was abolished with the Reformation. The paintings in the church date back to the 16th century. The church tower was built in 1816 with stones from the ruins of the former Church of the Holy Trinity. The whitewashed tower was once used as a landmark by sailors. The top of the tower, destroyed by fire, was rebuilt in 1968 from non-combustible materials.

The Church of the Holy Cross is a medieval stone church probably built between 1425 and 1440. The church has been fairly well preserved in its medieval appearance. The first church of the parish was most probably built of wood as early as the 13th century. The walls of the present church are decorated with paintings, the oldest of which were made after the completion of the church.

The Church of the Holy Cross, originally the Church of St. Michael and All Angels, was built in 1899 by Rudolf Zapfe for the Anglican parish of Weimar. Zapfe based the style and proportions of the exterior on the type of a small English church from the early Gothic period. It has belonged to the local Evangelical Lutheran congregation since 1928.

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The Church of the Holy Exaltation of the Holy Cross is an Orthodox church built in 1764 as a Uniate (Greek-Catholic) church. After the conversion of the Uniates to Orthodoxy, the church was rebuilt in 1879 in the Russian style. The apse is separated from the prayer hall by a wooden iconostasis created in the 1870s. Next to the church, there is a wooden bell tower built in the 1840s - a central four-pillar vernacular structure covered with a sloping tented roof.

The Church of the Holy Family is a neo-gothic building erected between 1904 and 1907 according to the plans of the architect Friedrich Heitmann. In 1945, the church was damaged and abandoned for a long time, gradually collapsing. In 1980, after a long reconstruction under the direction of architect Pavel Gorbach, the Kaliningrad Regional Philharmonic Society was opened there. In 1982, the concert hall was equipped with an organ.

The Church of the Holy Great Martyr Procopius was built in 1853 and has been restored many times since, most recently in 1998. It contains one of the most famous and largest collections of icons in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The collection was created thanks to donations from parishioners, but also by bringing icons from churches in Sarajevo. The oldest icon was made in the Byzantine iconographic manner and dates back to the 15th century.