Island church on an alpine lake.
Cave monastery above a river bend.
Red-stone Jesuit mission, UNESCO-listed.
World's longest tramway to a clifftop monastery.
Medieval monastery partly carved into rock.
Monastery on a hill where St Gregory was imprisoned in a pit, with snow-capped Ararat filling the sky behind it.
Birthplace of Jesus and the Nativity church.
Painted churches and forest trails.
The hilltop where Moses is said to have seen the Promised Land, with views to the Dead Sea and Jerusalem.
Fifteenth-century monasteries frescoed inside and out, still vivid.
Granite stelae up to 33 metres tall marking the tombs of the Aksumite kings, near the chapel said to hold the Ark of the Covenant.
Ancient churches on a Black Sea peninsula, UNESCO-listed.
Bulgaria's grandest mountain monastery.
Church blasted out of solid granite in 1969, lit by a copper dome โ Helsinkiโs most striking modern building.
Eleventh-century cathedral with original mosaics, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Golden-domed monastery complex above catacombs of mummified monks.
Island of wooden churches, stilt houses and its own mythology.
Freshwater lake ringed by biblical sites and lakeside hot springs.
Baroque Benedictine abbey on a rock above the Danube, with a gilded library of 100,000 books and frescoed marble hall.
A chapel decorated with the bones of 40,000 people โ chandelier included โ beside the Gothic St Barbaraโs Cathedral.
Greek Orthodox monastery clinging to a sheer cliff face in the Pontic Mountains.
Underground cathedral carved into the tunnels of a working salt mine.
Monasteries atop soaring rock pillars.
St Petersburgโs onion-domed church, lined inside with 7,000 mยฒ of mosaic.
Medieval cathedral, round tower and Cormacโs Chapel crowning a limestone outcrop where St Patrick baptised a king.
White basilica on the highest hill in Paris, with the artistsโ square of Place du Tertre and the whole city spread out below.
Parisโs 850-year-old Gothic cathedral, reopened after the 2019 fire with its spire and oak roof rebuilt by hand.
The largest surviving Romanesque church in Europe, built for pilgrims on the road to Santiago and topped by a five-tier octagonal bell tower.
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