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Churches

Breuer's least-known masterpiece?

St. Joseph, Minnesota

Saint John's Abbey Church

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

Rio de Janeiro Cathedral

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Rio de Janeiro Cathedral

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Patrocinio (Church of Our Lady of Patronage), Tenaún

Churches of Chiloé

Spanish religion mixed with local architecture has yielded a network of churches unlike any other.

Città Ideale

Montegabbione (TR), Italy

La Scarzuola

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

Found: A Mysterious Icon in the Church Marking Jesus' Birth

Sarah Laskow February 24, 2016

Landlord Shows No Love, Supreme or Otherwise, for The Coltrane Church

Eric Grundhauser February 19, 2016

100 Wonders: Don Justo's Self Built Cathedral

Dylan Thuras February 18, 2016

The Friday Night Rites of New York's Church Bell Ringers

Ella Morton February 11, 2016

Lexington, Virginia

University Chapel

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

Rila Monastery

Rilski manastir, Bulgaria

Rila Monastery

This historic black and white monastery is one of Bulgaria's architectural jewels.

The Brooklyn Visitation Monastery

Brooklyn, New York

The Brooklyn Visitation Monastery

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

FOUND: A 5th-Century Underground Church in Turkey

Sarah Laskow February 8, 2016

The jeweled remains of Hyacinth, a first century saint

Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany

Jeweled Skeletons of the Fürstenfeld Abbey

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

Greetings from all churches represented in the city of Templin.

Templin, Germany

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Traffic Signs

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

2005 photo

The Bad Deed that Robbed Compton Avenue of Its Most Iconic Church

Catherine Wagley January 28, 2016

Konrad II

Mondsee, Austria

The Altar of the Basilica of St. Michael

This skeleton-filled altar piece served as a backdrop to one of the most iconic scenes in "The Sound of Music."

Þingvellir Church

Thingvellir, Iceland

Þingvellir Church

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

St. Augustine's Seminary

Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi

St. Augustine's Seminary

This Mississippi seminary was the first in America to train Black Catholic priests.