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Body of Christ Church

Completed in 1690 and consecrated 10 years later, this often overlooked Baroque church next to the underpass connecting Old Town with the newer part of the city provides an interesting insight into the mindset of the occupying Soviets. Read_on (No Comments)

Carmelite Church of the Holy Cross

Built on the site of an older church dating from the start of the 16th century, local historians are of the general opinion that Read_on (No Comments)

Christ's Resurrection Church

This extraordinary white church towering over the city came about through an idea for a house of worship in praise of Lithuanian independence in 1922. Read_on (No Comments)

Holy Revelation Church

The city’s Russian Orthodox Cathedral, functioning as the country’s primary house of worship for the faith between the wars, stands next to its predecessor in the park immediately northwest of the bus station. Read_on (No Comments)

St. Francis Xavier Church & Jesuit Monastery

Completed in 1666, up in flames in 1732 and finally consecrated in 1759. A monastery and college were built a decade later, just five years before the Pope decided to abolish Jesuit Order altogether. Read_on (No Comments)

St. George's Church & Bernardine Monastery

You can’t really appreciate this forlorn-looking Gothic building without taking into account its history. It’s had a rough ride since its beginnings in 1487. Read_on (No Comments)

St. Gertrude's Church

One of the oldest surviving Gothic buildings in the country, this compact beauty hidden away through a small gateway on the southern Read_on (No Comments)

St. Michael the Archangel

Sat splendidly at the far eastern end of Laisvės, the imposing St. Michael the Archangel, known in the local vernacular as Read_on (No Comments)

Sts. Peter & Paul's Cathedral-Basilica

Dating back as far as 1408 and receiving basilica status in 1921, Sts. Peter & Paul's is the largest Gothic structure Read_on (No Comments)

Vytautas the Great Church of the Accession of The Holy Virgin Mary

Like most churches in the country, this house of worship is a condensed history lesson. The Gothic structure was built by Franciscan monks at the beginning of the 15th century with the tower added a little later. Read_on (No Comments)