Gozo
Ta’ Pinu Basilica: the mysterious voice a farmer heard in a country chapel, now Gozo’s ‘church of miracles’
Ta’ Pinu Basilica, Gozo, Malta. Photo: Zulimark, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Għarb, Gozo, Malta · costruita…
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Oaxaca
Templo de Santo Domingo de Guzmán: the fortress-church whose plain walls hide one of the most lavish gilded interiors in the Americas
Templo de Santo Domingo de Guzmán, Oaxaca, Mexico. Photo: Nan Palmero, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. Oaxaca…
Vilnius County
The Bernardine Church: one of Vilnius’s largest Gothic buildings, once a Soviet-era art institute warehouse
Bernardine Church, Vilnius, Lithuania. Photo: Alexey Komarov, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Vilnius, Lituania · struttura attuale…
Minsk Region
The Cathedral of Peter and Paul: fortress-like walls that helped Minsk’s oldest stone church survive centuries of turmoil
Cathedral of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, Minsk, Belarus. Photo: Hanna Zelenko, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA…
Cairo Governorate
The Church of Abu Serga: built over a crypt where Coptic tradition says the Holy Family once rested
Church of St. Sergius and Bacchus (Abu Serga), Old Cairo, Egypt. Photo: Faris El-Gwely, via Wikimedia Commons, CC…
Sacatepéquez
The Church of La Merced: built low and thick-walled to survive the earthquake that ended Antigua’s time as a capital
Church of La Merced, Antigua Guatemala. Photo: Rambling Traveler, derivative work by MrPanyGoff, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA…
Sacatepéquez
The Church of San Francisco el Grande: rebuilt from earthquake ruin to hold the tomb of Central America’s first saint
Church of San Francisco el Grande, Antigua Guatemala. Photo: Chad Davis, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. Antigua…
Minas Gerais
The Church of São Francisco de Assis: designed, carved and completed by a single disabled genius, Aleijadinho
Church of São Francisco de Assis, Ouro Preto, Brazil. Photo: Robsondig, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Ouro…
Bahia
The Church of São Francisco: a plain colonial facade hiding one of Brazil’s most gold-covered Baroque interiors
Church of São Francisco, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Photo: Wellington Da Costa Gomez, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.…
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