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St Constantine and Helena is an Orthodox church of Plovdiv built in 1832 on the site of an older church of the fourth century. In 1810, the building was found half buried and was completely rebuilt and sanctified on October 30, 1832. The St Constantine and Helena church is a listed cultural monument since 1954. It was completely restored in 1978-1989.

This cathedral, dedicated to the two creators of the Cyrillic alphabet, was constructed between 1897 and 1907 by the Italian architect, Ricardo Toscani. The building has two naves and a large dome, typical of the Bulgarian style. In addition to this, the stained glass was done by the same artists who created the stained glass of the Alexander Nevski cathedral in Sofia.

The Church of St Demetrius is a medieval monastery church near the town of Boboshevo.

The Church of St. Donatus, whose construction began in the 9th century, is the most valuable pre-Romanesque monument of Croatia and one of the symbols of the city of Zadar.

The Saint Eloi church is located in Le Salvetat-Lauragais in Haute-Garonne. Erected in the center of the village, this former priory became a parish church and is surrounded by a cemetery. It was built in the sixteenth century, on foundations of a fifteenth century building. The church, with walls of shale rubble and pink bricks, has a nave closed by a choir with three sides. A bell tower is surmounted by a hexagonal turret, topped by a slate steeple.

The church of St Florentin was built at the request of Louis XI (1461-1483) so that the castle church would cease to be a parish church, for fear of disease. The roof of the bell tower was modified in the Renaissance style at the beginning of the 16th century, and major restoration work was carried out in 1876 when the wooden vault was replaced by a stone vault.

The convent and church of the Franciscan Fathers were built in 1551. Destroyed when Francis Drake plundered the town in 1589, the church was not rebuilt until 1774, in the Galician Baroque style. The church houses a Baroque altarpiece and sculptures of St. Francis and St. Bernard.

The Church of St George is a Macedonian Orthodox church near the village Kozjak and next to Bargala Archaeological Site. It is one of the few surviving churches in northern Macedonia from the 9th and 10th centuries.

The Church of St George is a medieval Eastern Orthodox in southwestern Bulgaria.

The Church of St Hedwig was founded in the second half of the 13th century by Duke Konrad I of Głogów, from 1272 to 1294. The church is the oldest preserved monument in Zielona Góra. After a fire destroyed the church in 1419, a brick construction of the church body in the form of a hall was created. The church burned down several times, including during the great fire of the city in 1582, when the vault collapsed, and in 1627 and 1651. After the last, very severe one, the church was rebuilt for a quarter of a century. A classical four-storey tower with a terrace and dome from 1832 completes the contemporary image of the church.