The Verena Chapel is a baroque chapel erected between 1705 and 1710 on the former steep mountain path to Ägeri. Master Josef Brüell, from Vorarlberg, was responsible for the masonry work. The stonecutters were Michael and Peter Utinger from Zug. The dome was built by the Zug master Paul Sidler.
The church of St. Oswald was built in the course of the expansion of the city from 1477. The former master-builder of Lucerne and Zurich, Hans Felder, was commissioned to build it. In 1478, construction began on a hall church, which was extended to a three-nave basilica as early as 1492. The extension was completed in 1545. The spire was built in 1558. In 1719, the baroque sacristy was built at the side of the choir.
The territorial abbey of Einsiedeln is a Benedictine monastery founded in the 10th century, but the present Baroque monastery was built from 1674 to 1735 according to the plans of Caspar Moosbrugger. Since 1130, the monastery has been a double abbey where two communities live in two different places under one abbot: men in Einsiedeln, women in Fahr. The monastery is an important station of the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and the destination of many pilgrims. The "Black Madonna" of Einsiedeln in the Gnadenkapelle attracts about one million pilgrims and tourists every year.
St. Johannes Church in Lucerne is a Catholic Church built in 1967.
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