Churches

Over the centuries, this island paradise has done it all, from providing monks with ecclesiastical respite to sheltering an exiled Leon Trotsky.

One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

Somewhere between an art studio and a print shop, this artists storefront is a house of worship devoted to type.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

In the midst of a living monument to Soviet social engineering, Polish Catholics built this church by hand.

After 11 years of reconstruction work, Slovakia's finest hilltop chapel complex is finally reopen to the public.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.

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

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

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

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