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The Catholic parish church of St. John the Evangelist in Tübingen was built between 1875 and 1878 by the court architect Joseph von Egle in the neo-Gothic style. After the Second World War, the dark interior and the neo-Gothic furnishings no longer corresponded to contemporary taste and liturgical needs. For this reason, a concept for the renovation of the church was drawn up in 1959, which was implemented from 1961 to 1964. The complete sculpture of the tympanum and the door reliefs were designed by Toni Schneider-Manzell. The interior was freed of all ornamentation and brightened up with colours and higher choir windows.

Construction of the church of St. Johann of Capistran in Munich began in 1959 and it was consecrated in 1960. It was planned by Sep Ruf, who is also known as the architect of the German Kanzlerbungalow (1963-1966) in Bonn. Ruf combined ancient formal rigour, modern material authenticity and liturgical reform ideas into an impressive spatial unity.

The Roman Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist is a classicist church built between 1774 and 1790 on the site of a former Gothic church. Having become de facto Protestant in the 16th century, the church was returned to the Catholics in 1769 after a decision by Empress Maria Theresa (1745-1765) who had the church rebuilt from the 1770s.

St. John the Baptist Cathedral is a Greek-Catholic metropolitan cathedral whose baroque building was constructed in 1753 - 1754. Formerly a minority church, it became a cathedral after the formation of the Eparchy of Prešov in 1818.

St. John the Baptist Cathedral is a fine example of Baroque in the Lublin region. It was founded by Jesuits in the 16th century, completed in 1625. After the dissolution of the order in 1773, the church slowly fell into ruin. In 1797, the temple served as warehouse for grain. After being named seat of the diocese of Lublin in 1805, the cathedral was restored several times during the nineteenth century (1821, 1878).

St. John the Baptist is a Roman Catholic church built in 1697. It was later replaced by a wooden church built in 1845 which served until the early 1960s when it was demolished because it was in a state of emergency and the congregation ceased to exist. After the Soviet occupation, one of the parish buildings was restored and consecrated as a church.

The Saint John the New of Suceava monastery was built between 1514-1522, during the ruling of Bogdan III the Blind and Stefanita Voda, both sons of Stephen the Great. The building of the church is imposing and it follows the Moldavian architectural style. Inside of the church there is a shrine with the relics of Saint John the New, brought in 1402 by the king Alexander the Good from the White Fortress (today in Republic of Moldavia). Every year, on 24th of June, a huge pilgrimage is taking place here. Thousands of believers gather in the monasteries’ courtyards to listen to the Divine Liturgy and the priests’ words of wisdom and to take part in the procession with the Holy relics.

St. John the Theologian Kaneo is one of the most famous churches in Northern Macedonia due to its position above Lake Ohrid. Its foundation date is unknown, but the church existed already in the 13th century. Abandoned during the Ottoman period, it was restored in the 19th century. The frescoes inside were made during the restoration and date back to the 20th century.

The monastery of St. John Vladimir, built at the end of the 14th century, is an important monument in medieval Albania, and one of the largest sacred complexes in the country. The monastery was almost completely destroyed by fire in 1944, but the walls painted in the 18th century were spared.

As an arch-Cathedral, Saint John is the most important church in Warsaw and one of the oldest, dating back to 1390. Completely destroyed during the Second World War, the building was rebuilt according to Jan Zachwatowicz's plans between 1948 and 1956. The building is now classified by UNESCO.