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St. Michael's Church is a memorial church for the victims of the Chernobyl disaster. The first church was founded in 1763 for a Uniate (Greek Catholic) community. In 1847 a new church was completed. With the Chernobyl accident on 26 April 1986, the village of Vyleva was radiologically contaminated, the inhabitants were evicted and the church was abandoned. In 2000, a plan was drawn up to move the church to Gomel. The church was consecrated in Gomel on 26 April 2006. It is the only church in Belarus that was moved from the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

St. Michael's Church in Jõhvi is a fortress church first mentioned in connection with the Russian plundering expeditions in 1364. The church was built as a fortress church and surrounded by a moat. The church suffered several times from wars, at the beginning of the Livonian War in 1558 and during the Great Northern War in 1703. Subsequently, the church was given a baroque bell tower in 1728. The present neo-Gothic bell tower dates from 1875.

St. Michael's Church is an Orthodox church built of wood in 1991. It also has a small unpainted wooden chapel, which is separate from the building.

St. Michael's Church is a medieval stone church probably built between 1460 and 1483. The arcades of the church are, among other things, painted with a waving vine painting. The church also has a 15th-century crucifix.

St. Michael's Church is a wooden Orthodox church that has existed since 1879. In the 1930s, the temple was closed and degraded to the point of complete destruction. In 1993, a new church was built on the site of the old church.

St. Michael's Church is a wooden church from the second half of the 18th century, combining elements of Baroque and late Classicism. Destroyed by French troops in 1812, it had to be rebuilt. At the end of the 19th century, a bell tower was added from the east.

St. Michael's Church is the oldest parish church in Sopron. It was built in the 13th century in the Romanesque style and rebuilt in the 15th century in the Gothic style. Its current building was shaped by the neo-Gothic reconstruction of the 19th century. It also preserves statues and mural paintings from the 15th century.

St. Michael's Church was built between 1899 and 1905. It was designed by Lars Sonck, a 24-year-old architecture student who won a church design competition in 1894. The architecture of the church mixes neo-Gothic and Art Nouveau. Although his work was admired by his peers, architect Sonck did not hide his dislike of the church afterwards.

St. Michael's Church is an Orthodox church built in the 19th century, but the current version dates back to 1911. The church is a hexagonal wooden house covered with a hipped roof with the head in the centre. A rectangular tented tower was erected above the rectangular porch.

St. Michael's Church is an Orthodox church built in 1780 out of wood. The building consists of 3 rectangular log cabins: the vestibule, a prayer hall and an apse, which are covered by a common roof. A bell tower has been erected near the church.