Goa
Church of St. Francis of Assisi: the church whose 1521 doorway survived its own 17th-century rebuilding
Church and Convent of St. Francis of Assisi, Old Goa, India. Photo: Ranjithsiji, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA…
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Ohrid Municipality
Church of St. John at Kaneo (13th c.): perched on a cliff over Lake Ohrid, frescoes hidden until 1964
Church of St. John at Kaneo, Ohrid, North Macedonia. Photo: Marcin Szala (Pudelek), via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA…
Berat County
Church of the Dormition of Saint Mary (1797): inside Berat Castle, a 16th-century red no one has ever replicated
Church of the Dormition of Saint Mary, Berat Castle, Albania. Photo: Pasztilla (Attila Terbócs), via Wikimedia Commons, CC…
Veliko Tarnovo Province
Church of the Nativity, Arbanasi: behind Ottoman-mandated low walls, Bulgaria’s ‘Sistine Chapel’
Church of the Nativity of Christ, Arbanasi, Bulgaria. Photo: Andrei Stroe, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Arbanasi,…
West Bank
Church of the Nativity: the church whose door was shrunk to keep out looters on horseback
Door of Humility, Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem. Photo: Bahnfrend, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Piazza della…
Amhara Region
Debre Berhan Selassie: the only church in Gondar a 19th-century raid didn’t burn, saved by bees, according to legend
Debre Berhan Selassie Church, Gondar, Ethiopia. Photo: Sailko, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0. Gondar, Etiopia · costruita…
Zurich
Fraumünster (853): the convent whose abbesses ruled Zurich, now home to five Chagall windows
Fraumünster, Zurich, Switzerland. Photo: BrianMeyer09, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Zurigo, Svizzera · fondato 853 da Ludovico…
Galle
Groote Kerk, Galle: built as a father’s thanksgiving for a daughter born after years of waiting
Groote Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church), Galle Fort, Sri Lanka. Photo: Dan arndt, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.…
Zurich
Grossmünster (1220): where a plate of Lenten sausages sparked the Swiss Reformation
Grossmünster, Zurich, Switzerland. Photo: Ilya Hirschberg, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Zurigo, Svizzera · fondazione leggendaria di…
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