The mosque in Geneva, inaugurated in 1978, is the largest mosque in French-speaking Switzerland and one of the four Swiss mosques to have a 22-metre high minaret. The building includes a conference room, a library, a school and a mortuary for the ritual purification of funerals.
The Basilica of Our Lady of Geneva is the main Catholic church in Geneva, the former St Peter's Cathedral having become a Protestant temple. The Notre-Dame church was built according to Alexandre Grigny's design between 1852 and 1857 on the site of a former fortification bastion. This neo-gothic building was partly inspired by Notre-Dame de Bonsecours and Saint-Nicolas of Nantes.
The Beth-Yaacov Synagogue in Geneva was built between 1857 and 1859 in the neo-Moorish style. It was the first synagogue to be built in the city. The architect Johann Heinrich Bachofen had to undertake study trips abroad for its construction because Switzerland did not have any synagogues with very distinctive features. Thus, the synagogue facade is a reproduction of the facade of the synagogue in Heidenheim.
Geneva Cathedral, or Saint-Pierre Cathedral, was founded in 1160 in the Romanesque style, on a former 4th-century cathedral. In 1535, with the Reformation, the statues and furniture of the cathedral were destroyed. The cathedral then became Protestant. Subsequently, John Calvin (1509-1564) worked for 23 years as a preacher in the reformed cathedral. The cathedral was built in the Gothic style at the end of the 17th century and was enlarged in the 18th century with a columned portico in the classical style in front of the main façade.
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