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The monastery is known by two names: Convento de Santo António and Convento de São Francisco do Praxel (or simply Convento do Praxel).

This female monastery of the Holy Sepulchre was founded in Zaragoza by Marquesa Gil de Rada, who in 1300 had been widowed by Pedro Fernández de Híjar, the illegitimate son of Jaime I. The monastery is still active.

The first Franciscans arrived in Terceira around 1456 and from an early age tried to build a hermitage and later, in 1470, a convent. This primitive complex (convent and hermitage) was demolished, giving way to the current, larger and more imposing one. In 1663, when Frei Naranjo gathered the necessary donations for the works, they began. Three years later, the dormitories and workshops were completed and, on March 6, 1666, the first stone of the new temple was solemnly laid.

Manuel Delgado Fragoso states that the convent and church were built in 1725 on the initiative of Frei Agostinho de São Francisco with his own alms and those of the island's population. The tabernacle being kept while the works were being carried out, in the chapel of the 2nd captain of the mercy, João Soares de Albergaria (c. 1415 - 1499), where divine services were celebrated at the time. For this reason, the foundation of the convent was attributed to Albergaria, to whom he would have given the land and endowed it.

The first written reference to the nuns of the convent of São Gonçalo is by Louis-Philippe de Ségur, count of Ségur (1753-1830), who, when he passed through Terceira in 1782 on his way to the United States.

The monastery of São Martinho de Tibães was founded in the 11th century, but the main buildings of today were erected in the 17th and 18th centuries. From the 12th century it was rebuilt by Paio Guterres da Silva and occupied by the Benedictine congregation. In the 16th century, the monastery became the mother house of the Order for Portugal and Brazil. With the extinction of the religious orders in 1834, it was sold at public auction. Privately owned until 1986, the building was acquired by the Portuguese state. Today, the monastery combines several uses: one wing is used by the Carmelite Order, but the monastery also houses a hotel, a restaurant and a museum.

The Monastery of São Vicente de Fora is an emblematic monastic complex built in Lisbon between the 16th and 17th centuries.

The Monastery of St Francis Assisi is a Franciscan Monastery from the 13th century. Its church is the oldest gothic church in the region of Dalmatia. The Franciscan school was the origin of the University of Zadar. The museum of the monastery preserves many interesting artefacts. 

The Church of St Mark is an Orthodox church in Novi Karlovci. It was completed in 1883 and consecrated in 1884 on the day of St Mark the Apostle.

The Monastery of St. Agnes is a former convent of Poor Clare nuns, founded in Prague in the 1230s by St. Agnes of Bohemia, sister of King Wenceslas I, who was also the first superior. It is the first building in Bohemia built in the Gothic style. The nuns were expelled from it in 1782. The buildings, which were used for various purposes for two centuries, were restored at the end of the 20th century and now house part of the National Gallery in Prague.