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The 13th century basilica, initially built without towers, was rebuilt and fortified two centuries later when the chancel was completed with a defence level on arches with loopholes. This level was to be removed in the 19th century. By heightening the aisles, the building became a hall church. The western potter’s tower is equipped with a parapet walk built in the timber frame technique. The ring wall was demolished, but the defence towers are preserved: the potter’s tower, the gate tower also called the cooper’s tower, the tailor’s tower, the smith’s tower and the cobbler’s tower. The techniques and details are impressive not only on the construction itself, but inside as well. The chancel boasts a well-preserved double winged altar from 1650, an artwork that echoes the pre-reformation Gothic winged altars.

The Agudas Achim Orthodox Synagogue in Brno is an Ashkenazi synagogue built in 1934-36 by architect Otto Eisler. The synagogue was recently rebuilt in 2014-16. This Functionalist concrete building still serves as a synagogue.

The Agudas Hakehilos (Rue Pavée) Synagogue in Paris is an Orthodox synagogue completed in 1914 by architect Hector Guimard. This brick building still serves as a synagogue.

Akhat-Jami is a mosque-cathedral in Donetsk, built between 1994 and 1999. It is named after Akhat Hafizovych Bragin, an entrepreneur and former president of the Shakhtar Donetsk football club, who died in a bomb attack in 1995. The building was originally intended to have only one minaret, but funding from Rinat Akhmetov enabled a second one to be built, which was eventually named after him.

The only remaining active mosque in the city, it was built in the 16th century in the Ottoman style.

The mosque is located in the central part of Kyustendil, next to a Roman Therms. The mosque is an impressive building with large dome and marble pillars and supports.

The Ahrida Synagogue is located in Balat, a once thriving Jewish quarter in the city. The foundations of the synagogue date from the late 1400s but may be older. Following a fire in the 1600s it was rebuilt in the Ottoman baroque style. It was later renovated in 1990-1991.

Built in 1475, work was completed in 1496 and the chapel was built on the model of the Riom Sainte-Chapelle. As a Sainte-Chapelle, it housed a relic of the Passion of Christ, a thorn in his crown.

Built at the beginning of the 18th century, inspired by Rome.

This cathedral succeeds three previous cathedrals, the last of which was razed to the ground after a French bombardment in 1554.