Churches

One of the oldest Christian churches still standing in the Americas, and almost certainly Mexico's oldest in continuous use.

This bombed church was given a new life as a contemporary art gallery.

A stunning little chapel built on a rock in the Mediterranean Sea on the Greek island of Leros.

Two elaborately decorated "catacomb saints" are displayed on either side of the altar in a small church in Germany.

Rejoice at Amsterdam's ‘pop temple,’ a former church reborn as a raucous music venue.

Does this church in Naples hold the true tomb of Vlad the Impaler, the notoriously cruel figure who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula?

Photographs of the faces of the town's dead cover the walls of this small Italian church.

The ruins of a fifth-century church dedicated to Our Lady of the Harbor.

Legend holds that St. Paul was flogged for preaching Christianity at this pillar.

On the clock tower at St. Anne's Church in Cork, you never know which face is telling the truth.

Originally built for nuclear power plant workers, this church sits between apartment buildings.

This church conducts its services entirely in Norwegian sign language.

This mission, established in 1771, is the most remote of California’s Franciscan missions.

This dazzling wooden church was constructed as part of an elaborate peace project after the Thirty Years' War.

Split's smallest church, and one of its oldest, has been reconstructed inside the city's Roman walls.

A design by master architect Alvar Aalto in a small village in the Apennines near Bologna.

Ghostly ship drawings grace the walls of this medieval hospital.