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Maribo Cathedral was established in the 15th century when a monastery was built in Maribo. After the dissolution of the monastery in 1536 and the fire of the old city church in 1596, the monastery building became a church. When Lolland-Falster became an independent diocese in 1804, the church was finally granted the status of a cathedral. The present tower was added in the 19th century.

The cathedral of Maribor was probably founded in the 12th century. The cathedral, of Romanesque origin, was rebuilt in Gothic and Baroque style (the Baroque bell tower was built between 1623 and 1624). The church is built of rough stone and squares of grey and yellowish Slovenian sandstone.

The Synagogue in Maribor was built in the late 13th century as part of a complex including a Jewish cemetery, rabbinical residence, and Talmudic school. In 1501 the synagogue was turned into a Catholic church, the Church of All Saints. Following renovations, the building reopened in 2001 as a museum and cultural-exhibition dedication to the Jewish community of Maribor and Slovenia.

Maridalen Church was built as a house of prayer in 1888 but was later consecrated as a church in 1900, after renovations. It is in this church that Presten (TV series) was filmed.

After many discussions about other locations, the city council decided on 18 October 1944 that a church should be built on "Mariehoj". The year 1944, however, tells us that there was war in the country, therefore nothing happens until 1946, when the foundation stone is laid on July 31 with the participation of the church minister, bishop, county governor and a hundredth congregation.

The Marienkirche was erected in the first half of the 13th century. It is a building of Romanesque-Gothic transition, as the building simultaneously combines late Romanesque and early Gothic building forms. Between 1876 and 1879, a major exterior and interior renovation took place. In 1934, during the renovation work, the few frescoes in the choir were rediscovered and brought to light, which had not been destroyed during the renovation in the 19th century.

The Marienkirche (officially St. Marien zu Lübeck) was built from 1277 to 1351. The building was a symbol of the economic and political power of this city then at the head of the powerful Hanseatic League. As part of the old town of Lübeck, the church is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Mary is widely considered as the "mother church of Gothic brick".

Mariënlof Abbey is a cistercian nunnery in Kerniel (Borgloon). Orginally it was built for the order of the Holy Cross (Croisiers) in the fifteenth century, but in the nineteenth century it became a cistercian cloister. It houses several remarkable objects such as the shrine of Saint Odilia, dating of 1292 and the Chair of Saint Lutgard.

Marienmünster Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery, dissolved in 1803. Founded in 1127, the monastery reached its peak in the 12th and 13th centuries. During the Thirty Years' War, the monastery and the church were badly damaged and had to be rebuilt from 1661 onwards. From 1965 to 2014, Passionists lived there and pastored the surrounding parishes.

Mariestad Cathedral, built between 1593 and 1619, is not the main church in the diocese of Skara (that title is held by Skara Cathedral). The plan is that of a late neo-Gothic church, with crossed arms, lancet windows, pointed columns and internal white cross vaults. The chancel has a three-sided end and has been copied extensively in the diocese. The unadorned natural stone facades and the spire were only added in 1905 during the restoration by Folke Zettervall.