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The Church of St. Basil of Caesarea is a Serbian Orthodox church built in 1886. The interior of the church was built gradually over a period of more than forty years. During the 1992-1995 war, the building and the interior of the church suffered significant damage. Only two of the icons that were placed on the iconostasis were preserved, the icon of St. John and the icon of St. Venerable Mother Paraskeva.

A wooden Church of St. Basil is mentioned for the first time in documents from 1564-1565. There is no knowledge of a previous church in the area. According to the inscription above the southern door, the current church would have been built in 1733. During the twentieth century, the central dome has been demolished by a storm and restored in 1970.

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The Church of St. Benedict was built in the 15th century when Benedictine nuns settled on the present site to erect their church. After the Val di Noto earthquake in 1693, the complex was rebuilt from 1704 and completed in 1763 with work on the façade by Giovanni Battista Vaccarini and the interior decoration and fresco painting by Giovanni Tuccari. After the 1943 bombings that hit the building hard, the splendid frescoes painted between 1726 and 1729, largely covered at the end of the 18th century, resurfaced.

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Benedict is the smallest church in Kraków. It was founded in the year 1000 and was originally in the form of a rotunda. The present building is the result of interventions in the 15th and 16th centuries. Recent archaeological works revealed 37 burials outside the church and 29 inside.

The Church of St. Bernardine of Siena (Kościół św. Bernardyna ze Sieny) is Krakow is a Roman Catholic temple built for a Bernardine monastery.

The church of St. Bruno bishop and martyr is the oldest Roman Catholic church in Giżycko. The design of the new church was prepared by the architect Martin Weber from Frankfurt am Main. The foundation stone of the church was laid on 23 August 1936. The church was built to commemorate the German soldiers killed in the First World War. The top of the pediment was decorated with a sgraffito by Theo Landmann. After the Second World War, the figures were covered with plaster.

The Church of St. Catherine (Agía Ekateríni) in Anopoli is a small chapel in the former fortress of Loutro. In the time of the Ottoman Empire, a tower stood in the same position to control the harbour of Loutro.

The church of St. Catherine (Agia Ekaterini) in Sitia was built at the end of the 19th century on the site of an earlier church that belonged to the Augustinians.

The church of St. Charalambous (Agios Charalambos) in Akrata was built in 1903 and dedicated to the patron saint of the city.