Giant hilltop statue of Christ.
Bernini's vast colonnaded piazza.
Monastery with a tall bell tower.
Medieval monastery carved into the hillside near Tskhinvali.
Gothic abbey ruins in the hills.
The largest church in the world, a marble replica of St Peterโs standing in the African bush.
Hill covered in thousands of crosses.
Pine-fringed Black Sea resort with a 10th-century cathedral.
13th-century Armenian monastery.
Remote island with a vast cathedral.
Medieval marble monastery, UNESCO-listed.
Fourth-century monastery where Mesrop Mashtots opened the first Armenian school.
Colonial city of churches and murals.
19th-century Orthodox monastery above the sea.
One of the worldโs oldest lakes, with Byzantine churches on the shore and a UNESCO-listed old town.
Whitewashed monastery built into a sheer cliff face, the most visited pilgrimage site in the Balkans.
Serbian Orthodox monastery with thousands of medieval frescoes, UNESCO-listed.
Serbian Orthodox monastery, UNESCO-listed.
Soaring 1949 basilica with a green-tiled roof and pointed arches inspired by Congolese huts โ Brazzaville's landmark.
Red-stone Jesuit mission, UNESCO-listed.
Cave monastery above a river bend.
Monastic cells cut into cliffs high above the Dniester river.
Island church on an alpine lake.
World's longest tramway to a clifftop monastery.
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.
Medieval monastery partly carved into rock.
Bulgaria's grandest mountain monastery.
The hilltop where Moses is said to have seen the Promised Land, with views to the Dead Sea and Jerusalem.
Ancient churches on a Black Sea peninsula, UNESCO-listed.
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