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The Sunnylven church was inaugurated in 1859 and designed according to drawings by Rolfsen of Nordfjordeid. The forms are taken from the standard drawings of the architects Linstow and Grosch. The interior is painted in several shades of grey with reddish brown details. This colour scheme was made by Per Vigeland in 1934 during the renovation of the church.

The old Suntak Church is one of the best-preserved Romanesque churches in Sweden. The building was built in the mid-12th century from plastered and calcareous sandstone. The interior contains medieval wall paintings, the oldest of which can be dated to the end of the 14th century.

The Suomenlinna Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church founded in 1854. For much of its history, it was the church of the Russian Suomenlinna garrison. The building also serves as a lighthouse.

The cornerstone of the parish church was blessed on November 22, 1992 by the then Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb, Msgr. Marko Culej. The crypt of the parish church was completed in 1994, and the walls were erected in 1997 and 1998. The church was designed by the architect Mirko Beran, and it was built with the gifts of the faithful of the parish of St. Anastasia and the great help of the Archbishop's spiritual table and generous benefactors.

The church, which still preserves many parts of the former Romanesque basilica, was built during the 13th century and fortified in Gothic style in the 15th century. In the same time the Romanesque chancel was heightened by adding a defence level, a lierne vault was built above the nave and a ribbed vault in the chancel. During its fortification phase the side aisles of the western tower were replaced by turrets, which were demolished later on. Its defence level was also replaced in 1854 by the current spire. The interior is decorated with lively colored galleries. The painted pews in the aisles were brought here for security reasons from the church in Drăuşeni. grossscheuern2016_portalAlmost nothing remained from the defence wall that was once surrounding the assembly.

The church in Șura Mică remained almost unchanged after the construction phases between the 13th and 15th century. It was built as a Romanesque three-aisles basilica, destroyed in 1493 during the Ottoman raids and erected again before 1506. The chancel with mullioned windows and ribbed vault originate from that time. The central nave was covered with a barrel vault with a ribbing net and the western tower was equipped with a defence level. The western and northern portals date back to the same period, as well as the small defence tower above the northern entrance securing the church from the side of the valley. Only some ruins of the defence wall built in the same time are still preserved. The interior was only slightly changed as time went by. At the beginning of the 17th century, the church received its Baroque altar and the galleries. The pulpit and the organ however were only built later on, in 191kleinscheuern3_turm13.

Susa Cathedral, founded in the 11th century, was a Benedictine abbey until the 17th century. In 1027 Olderico Manfredi II, Marquis of Turin and Susa, founded a Benedictine abbey in Susa. During the Middle Ages, the cathedral was enlarged in two campaigns: the first took place in the 12th century and concerned the façade, which was extended to the walls; the second took place between the 14th and 15th centuries and concerned the apse: in fact, the three apses were rebuilt, as well as the sacristy. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the church was restored with the addition of Baroque decorations. In 1772, when Susa became the seat of the bishop, the church, now deprived of its monastic functions due to the closure of the adjacent Benedictine monastery, was raised to the rank of cathedral. Most of the Baroque additions were removed during the 19th-century renovations, giving the interior of the church a neo-Romanesque appearance.

The church of Susendal is a long wooden church dating from 2001. There was an old chapel from 1916 in Susendal, but in the 1990s the chapel was in an advanced state of disrepair.

The Sutlepa Chapel is a 17th-century chapel, which has been in the Estonian Open Air Museum since 1970. The chapel was consecrated again in 1989 and currently functions as an auxiliary church of the St. John's congregation in Tallinn. The Sutlepa Chapel is one of the oldest wooden buildings in Estonia. The chapel was built in the village of Sutlepa perhaps as early as 1627. However, the year "1699", engraved above the church door, probably marks the time of construction of the building, which has survived until today.

The Suure-Jaani Church, dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, is a fortified church which was certainly built before 1300 and is, therefore, one of the oldest stone churches in Viljandi County. During the Livonian War and the Great Northern War the church of St. John was severely damaged, so the church was extensively renovated in 1767. Probably in the last quarter of the 19th century, the church of St. John the Baptist was decorated in the neo-gothic style.