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The Church of the Holy Trinity is a Carphathian tserkvas built in 1720 and was erected on the site of an old church dating from 1601 that was burned down in 1719. The church houses a five-storey iconostasis, with about 50 icons, which was restored in 1978-79.

The Church of the Holy Virgin is a church of the Armenian community of Shumen, present in this city since the 17th century. The church burned down during the Russian-Turkish war of 1828-1829, so they rebuilt it in its present appearance in 1834.

The Catholic Church of the Holy Virgin Mary Queen of Poland was built in 1866 in the neo-Gothic style. It is a brick building with a gable roof. The facade and the opposite elevation have four gables with redans. The window openings and the entrance are closed in a semicircle.

The Church of the Holy Virgin Mary was first built at the beginning of the 15th century as a wooden church. The present stone church was built in 1910-1920 in the neo-gothic style and consecrated in 1925. Between 1930-1934 and 1968-1979, Nikodemas Švogžlys-Milžinas (1899-1985), a public figure, writer, repaired the church.

The church of the Holy Wisdom in Rethymno was built in the 16th century, during the Venetian rule of Crete. In 1670 it was converted into a mosque by Giachia Ibrahim. The building is used today by the Greek Ministry of Culture.

It was founded as a parish church on December 29, 1953. 2 Next to the it, there is a school and a kindergarten.

The Church of the Icon of the Holy Virgin Mary in Borshchiv was built between 1994 and 2006. It stands on a former 18th-century church that was destroyed during the Soviet era. In 1993, a temporary temple was built on the site while the present church was being constructed.

The Church of the Immaculate Conception of Mary is a reconstruction of 1734 (fires and earthquakes destroyed previous churches). The free-standing bell tower belongs to the original Gothic church, which was here as early as 1207.

Church of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady's foundation stone was laid 17th November 1866 and the church was consecrated by Mgr. Lequette, bishop of Arras, on 27th July 1868. It was finished in 1873. A plan for extensions was made in 1903.

The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the BVM in Wolbrom was erected using larch wood in 1638 and from the start fulfilled the functioned of a hospital church.