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Churches, Mosques and other religious buildings from around the world. |
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 | The cathedral of Strassbourg. It's 143m high and in 1874 it was the highest building on earth. |  | 09/27/2005 | 191 | 
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 | The Royal Palace and Convent of Mafra (Palácio e Convento de Mafra), is a popular tourist destination 40km northwest of Lisbon. Built in the baroque style in the XVIII century and reminescent of the Spanish palace-convent El Escorial, the Convento de Mafra has also inspired Portuguese Nobel Prize laureate José Saramago to write his novel Memorial do Convento. The palace was one of the residence... |  | 09/26/2005 | 262 |
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 | The Vatican is the smallest nation state in the world. File contains no less than 71 placemarks of sites within that state. |  | 09/26/2005 | 698 |
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 | The largest in the UK with the heaviest peal of bells in the world, work began on the cathedral in 1904 and was completed in 1978. | | 09/25/2005 | 151 |
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 | Liverpool's roman Catholic cathedral, opened 1967. | | 09/25/2005 | 130 |
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 | Some of the larger or more historic North London mosques. | | 09/24/2005 | 133 |
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 | The six London churches designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, a student of Sir Christopher Wren, along with a seventh, St Luke's Old Street, which he designed with John James. |  | 09/24/2005 | 116 |
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 | Construction began in 1396 and finished in 1595. The cupola and some small chapels were added between 1730 and 1744. | | 09/23/2005 | 134 |
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 | The Torre pendente di Pisa is the campanile, or bell tower, of Pisa's cathedral. The tower was intended to stand vertically, but began leaning soon after construction started in 1173. | | 09/23/2005 | 1,119 |
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 | Built on the site of an earlier church from 1593, the Iglesia Metropolitana was constructed between 1752 and 1852, with a decorative 1911 refurbishment. | | 09/23/2005 | 125 |
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 | For over 100 years, from 1796 to 1898, the body of Christopher Columbus lay in a mausoleum here. | | 09/23/2005 | 154 |
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 | A complex of gothic buildings from the late 14th and early 15th centuries, rebuilt in the Renaissance style in the 16th century. It contains a tower with the Our Lady Chapel, two gothic halls with ribbed vaults and a renaissance hall. During 1377 - 1784 the seat of the New Town authorities. On 30th July, 1419, the scene of the defenestration of the Catholic aldermen by Prague Hussites which mar... | | 09/22/2005 | 173 |
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 | Built at the highest point of the town, construction of the Cathedral of Segovia began in 1525. | | 09/21/2005 | 166 |
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 | The Westerkerk was built after plans by Hendrick de Keyser in Dutch Renaissance style and was officially opened in 1631. It is one of the oldest churches especially built for the Protestant services, and the largest as such church in the Netherlands. | | 09/21/2005 | 184 |
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 | Malabo Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in Spanish Gothic style. It was designed by Luís Segarra Llairadó. | | 09/20/2005 | 96 |
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 | The Münster Cathedral is the largest ecclesiastical building in Switzerland and a fine example of gothic architecture. | | 09/20/2005 | 209 |
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 | Built in 1835, this impressive building is located in the Plaza Murillo next to the Presidential Palace. |  | 09/19/2005 | 181 |
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 | The Karlskirche was commissioned by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI in 1715. The church is named after St. Charles Borromeo and was built by the Austrian court architect, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. Construction began in 1715, and finished in 1737. | | 09/19/2005 | 181 |
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 | The place where Jim Jones, would-be messiah, convinced and helped those who weren't convinced to commit suicide in 1978. Over 900 people, including more than 270 children, drank cyanide-poisoned punch, and those who refused were shot. Purportedly, Jim thought he was just helping them to get to heaven. | | 09/18/2005 | 242 |
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 | Here you can see one of the most famous sights in Vienna, the Stephansdom. It is build since 1137 an the southern tower is 137 meter high. |  | 09/18/2005 | 295 |
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 | Appropriately located on Church Street, the Bermuda Cathedral is a neo-Gothic Anglican church designed by Scottish architect William Hay. | | 09/18/2005 | 104 |
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 | It is a Gothic building which was canstructed in the 14th and 15th centuries. From 1356 onwards, kings of the Holy Roman Empire were elected in this church. It is today the main church in the city of Frankfurt | | 09/18/2005 | 124 |
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 | Considered the largest cemetery in the world. | | 09/17/2005 | 168 |
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 | American military cemetery. Veterans from the American revolution, to military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq are buried here. | | 09/17/2005 | 340 |
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 | The Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Ely is the seat of the Bishop of Ely. | | 09/16/2005 | 142 |
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