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The Chełmno convent is a 13th century Cistercian monastery, now run by Benedictine nuns. The monastery complex includes the Gothic monastery with the medieval treasury and cellar, the 13th century Mestwin tower, the hospital building, the convent garden and the Gothic church of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist (1290-1330) with the crypt of Abbess Madeleine Mortęska .

The monastery of Chiajna, built at the end of the 18th century, is now in ruins. Intended to be the most important place of worship in Romania at the time of its construction, the neoclassical building was quickly destroyed by Turkish attacks. It has been classified as a Romanian historical monument since 2010.

Chiprovtsi Monastery is a 10th century Bulgarian Orthodox monastery. It is a popular pilgrimage site in northwestern Bulgaria.

The Chorin Monastery is a former Cistercian abbey founded in 1258 and embodies the typical brick Gothic style. The monastery was secularised in 1542 with the Reformation and left to decay until the 19th century. Then the ruins were secured and partially reconstructed under the direction of Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

The Chrysoskalitissa Convent was built in the 17th century. Rebuilt in 1894, only a monk and a nun live in the building and maintain it.

The construction of the church began in 1711 with the support of King João V. It belonged to the Order of the Franciscans. The church miraculously survived the earthquake of 1755.

The Pažaislis Church and Monastery is one of the most beautiful examples of Baroque architecture in Lithuania. Construction work was carried out from 1662 to 1712. In 1832, the complex was closed by the Russians and later converted into the Russian Orthodox Church. After 1920, the ruined church was returned to the Catholics. After the Second World War, the Soviet authorities transformed the complex into an archive centre, a psychiatric hospital and, in 1966, an art gallery. In 1990, the buildings were returned to the nuns and a restoration was undertaken.

This Franciscan monastery was constructed in the 13th century. The monastery complex contains a cavernous church featuring a 15th century gilded altarpiece. In addition to this, there is an elaborate Roman mosaic featuring a hippocampus, a mythical Roman fish-tailed horse.

The church and monastery of St. Dominic were founded in the 13th century, but the church of St. Dominic was not completed until the 1370s and the cloister was built in the mid-15th century. This part of the monastery was badly damaged during the Second World War. The eastern wing of the monastery was renovated from 1974 to 1976, and the western wing was renovated by the Institute for the Protection of Monuments in Split.

The Monastery of Clonmacnoise, also known as the "Seven Churches", was founded around 544 by the one who would later be known as one of the twelve apostles of Ireland, Saint Ciarán. The wealth of the monastery attracted the lust of Irish kings, Anglo-Normans and Vikings who plundered and burned it many times between 841 and 1204. The decline of the road bordering Clonmacnoise in favour of the one passing through Athlone around the 11th century marked the beginning of the decline of the site. In 1552, the English garrison of Athlone sacked the monastery. Three high crosses still stand on the site of the monastery, the "Cross of the North", the "Cross of the South" and the "Cross of the Scriptures", dating from the 9th to the 10th century.