The New Synagogue of Liberec is housed in the Reconciliation Building. The synagogue consists of a triangular stone building attached to the main structure, which houses the library and a meeting place.
The former synagogue of Liberec was one of the largest in Europe. It was burnt down in 1938 during the Kristallnacht. The New Synagogue was the first one erected in the Czech Republic after the Second World War.
The Church of St. John of Nepomuk is a baroque building built in the middle of the 14th century. It was occupied by the Knights Hospitallers until the beginning of the Hussite wars in 1421. Between 1590 and 1623, the church served the burgeoning German Lutheran community, but after the Thirty Years' War, it returned to the Catholics. In 1727, a reconstruction finally gave the church its present appearance.
The church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary was founded in the 10th century as a wooden church. The current building dates back to reconstruction in 1701-1702 and 1761.
The present cathedral of St. James in Görlitz was built between 1898 and 1900 according to plans by the architect Joseph Ebers and consecrated on 6 October 1900. In March 1947, the then German chapter vicar Ferdinand Piontek had to leave the episcopal city of Wroclaw as a result of the Second World War. Görlitz thus became the seat in exile of the Wroclaw Metropolitan Chapter and the Wroclaw Ordinariate, and the parish church of St. James additionally became the episcopal church for the diocesan area of Görlitz-Cottbus.
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