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Kremsmünster Abbey is a Benedictine monastery founded in 777 by the Bavarian Duke Tassilo III. From the middle of the 17th century, a large complex was built on top of the previous building. Together with Melk Abbey, it is one of the largest in Austria. Among the builders were Carlo Antonio Carlone and Jakob Prandtauer, who also designed the Melk Monastery Church. The monastery is known for its observatory (mathematical tower from 1750) and its school. The Kremsmünster Abbey Library is one of the largest and oldest in Austria. The magnificent 65-metre long room contains about 160,000 volumes, the most famous of which is the Codex Millenarius dating from around 800.

The Kreuzherrenkirche was initially a monastery church of the Order of the Order of the Cross existing since the 15th century. After a long period of abandon in the 19th and 20th centuries (as a horse stable, storage room, depot and until 1957 as a tax office) it was re-consecrated in 1990.

The Kreuzkirche is the Protestant main church of the city. First built in the 12th century, it is the largest church in Saxony and a music centre of the city. Destroyed five times in its history, most recently in World War II, the external reconstruction took place from 1946 to 1955, the internal, with its Art Nouveau elements, took place until today.

This is one of the main churches of the old town of Hanover that was destroyed in an air-raid in 1943 and are now merged into a single parish known as the Marktkirche. This church was built in the 14th century and held the first Lutheran ceremony in Hannover in 1533, after the reformation. The modern church was rebuilt in 1961 after its destruction during the Second World War.

The Evangelical Lutheran Kreuzkirche was built between 1731 and 1739 after the establishment of the new Kreuzkirche parish in 1704 for the western districts of Suhl. It was built by the Königshof master mason Johann Michael Schmidt and the carpenter Johann Sebastian Gerbig. At that time, it was located at the western end of the town, between two town gates. For this reason, the church tower with the representative entrance portal was placed on the eastern side of the facade, facing the centre of the town, and the opposite chancel was oriented to the west.

Built as a new church building for the Reformed Church of Hengelo. Replaced an earlier Reformed Church of Hengelo . The church building was designed under the theme of salting salt. The tower has the shape of a stylized drilling tower, characteristic of Hengelo. The base of the building was chosen in the shape of salt crystals: two white cubes form the core of the building. They are surrounded by 'a wall of red earth'. The church hall (10 meters high) and the meeting room emerge from the wall like crystals. The church hall can accommodate almost 600 people. The building was put into use at the end of 1999. It was given the name Kristalkerk; a nod to the theme 'salting salt'.

Kristiansand Cathedral is monumental and richly designed with a strong neo-Gothic touch. It has crossed arms near the choir and towers at the main entrance in the east. The church was built to the designs of Henrik Thrap-Meyer and consecrated in 1885.

The construction of the Kristine Church began in 1642 and the work was led by the mason Hans Förster until his death in 1653. He was probably also responsible for most of the drawings of the church. After that, the work was directed by the man closest to Förster, the mason Jurgen Fischer, who was responsible for the plans of the tower until his death in 1658. Johan Persson completed the construction in 1660. The original spire was destroyed by fire on 26 June 1711 and replaced by a simple wooden hood. It was not until 1864-1865 that the wooden hood was replaced by the present tower spire. The interior of the church building is characterised by the extensive restoration carried out in 1903-1906.

Kristinehamn Church, designed by the architect Carl Georg Brunius in 1846 and built from 1847 to 1858, is one of the earliest examples of neo-Gothic architecture in Sweden. Kristinehamn Church is the second church in the city. When Kristinehamn was granted town rights in 1642, the old parish church in Varnum was moved to Kristinehamn, about 300 metres northwest of the present church site. This old church was abandoned in 1858 when the new church was completed.

The Greek Catholic Cathedral in Križevci, in its present form, dates back to a restoration in the neo-gothic style by the architect Hermann Bollé from 1895 to 1897. In 1777, a diocese of Križevci was established for the Greek Catholics in Croatia. It was at this time and in this context that the existing church became a Greek-Catholic cathedral.