The Motorway Church of Medenbach is a church located on the service area of Medenbach-West on the A 3 Cologne-Frankfurt motorway. The church was designed by the Hessian architect Hans Waechter and was consecrated on 30 March 2001. The motorway church is designed as a low building made of lightweight exposed concrete, surrounded by arcades and courtyard walls. The chapel has exposed brick masonry inside and out.
The only Baha'i house of worship in Europe, it is a modern concrete and glass building, designed by German architect Tuto Rochol, and inaugurated in 1964. The ceiling is illuminated by more than 500 stained glass windows.
The Christ Church in Mainz is a Protestant church built between 1896 and 1903 according to the plans of Eduard Kreyssig. The building is reminiscent of the Italian High Renaissance style. In addition to religious services, the Christ Church is also popular for music. Since 1954, the Mainz Bach Choir and Orchestra have been using the church regularly.
The New Mainz Synagogue, inaugurated in 2010, is the successor building to the former Mainz Synagogues. Mainz, or Magenza as it is called by the local Jewish community, had been an important Jewish centre on the Rhine since Roman times, and lost its importance only with the Second World War. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the high number of immigrants from Eastern Europe expanded the congregation in the 1990s and, as new premises had to be found, the construction of the synagogue was decided in 1999. Architect Manuel Herz received the German Façade Award for the Ventilated Curtain Wall (VHF) 2011 for the building.
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