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Bernardine Church & Monastery

Bernardine Church & Monastery
Once forming part of the city’s original defensive walls and constructed on the site of an earlier wooden church dating Read_on (No Comments)

Cathedral-Basilica of St. Stanislaus & St. Ladislaus

Cathedral-Basilica of St. Stanislaus & St. Ladislaus
The most important Catholic building in Lithuania, Vilnius Cathedral as it’s more usually known was first built in 1251 by a newly converted Grand Duke Mindaugas on the site of a supposed pagan temple. Read_on (1 Comment)

Church of Sts. Michael & Constantine

Church of Sts. Michael & Constantine
Built in 1913 at the very end of tsarist rule within the city as part of the 300th anniversary celebrations of the Romanov Dynasty, this rather absurd-looking Russian Orthodox church is famed hereabouts for its garish green domes. Read_on (1 Comment)

Church of the Apparition of the Holy Mother of God

Church of the Apparition of the Holy Mother of God
Built in 1903 and topped with several beautiful Neo-Byzantine cupolas, this is one of the best loved Russian Orthodox churches in Vilnius. Read_on (No Comments)

Church of the Holy Cross

Church of the Holy Cross
On the other side of the Presidential Palace from the University, this charming little church’s history dates back to 1543 and the building of a chapel on the site to commemorate the martyrdom of a group of 14th-century Franciscan friars. Read_on (No Comments)

Church of the Holy Mother of God

Church of the Holy Mother of God
Originally dating back to the middle of the 14th century, this slightly unusual-looking church which also functions as the Read_on (No Comments)

Church of the Holy Spirit

Church of the Holy Spirit
Like many of the city’s churches, the Dominican Church of the Holy Spirit was built on the site of a former wooden house of worship that met a fiery fate. Read_on (No Comments)

Evangelical Lutheran Church

Evangelical Lutheran Church
Built in 1555, two years after the first German-speaking Lutheran community is said to have arrived in Vilnius, the crowning Read_on (1 Comment)

Franciscan Church

Franciscan Church
The Franciscan Church, or the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Franciscan Abbey in Vilnius to give it its full title, dates from the middle of the 14th century. Read_on (1 Comment)

Holy Trinity Church & Basilian Gate

Holy Trinity Church & Basilian Gate
Consisting of a church, monastery, belfry and beautiful rococo gate, with the exception of the latter much of it in a state of Read_on (1 Comment)

Orthodox Church of St. Paraskeva

Orthodox Church of St. Paraskeva
Dating back to the middle of the 14th century and itself built on the site of what many believe to be a former pagan place of worship, the charming albeit somewhat diminutive Orthodox Church of St. Read_on (No Comments)

Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit

Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit
Dating originally from the mid-16th century but predominantly now the combined work of the city’s most renowned and prolific religious architect Johann Christoph Glaubitz (Jonas Kristupas Glaubicas, ca. Read_on (No Comments)

Reformed Evangelical Church

Reformed Evangelical Church
The origin of the Protestant Church in Lithuania, whose three traditional strongholds still exist in Biržai, Kėdainiai Read_on (No Comments)

St. Anne's Church

St. Anne's Church
Unquestionably one of the city’s most famous landmarks and quite rightly so, the history of St. Anne’s starts with the alleged construction in the 14th century of a wooden house of worship on this spot in honour of Ona, the wife of Vytautas the Great. Read_on (No Comments)

St. Casimir's Church

St. Casimir's Church
St. Casimir’s in many ways represents a microcosm of Lithuania itself. Founded by the Jesuits and dedicated to Lithuania’s Read_on (No Comments)

St. Nicholas' Church

St. Nicholas' Church
Pre-dating the country’s conversion to Christianity by some seven decades, Vilnius’ oldest surviving church was built in 1320 by German merchant immigrants. Read_on (No Comments)

St. Nicolas' Church

St. Nicolas' Church
The forerunner to this church supposedly dates back to the second decade of the 16th century, belonging from 1609 until 1827 to the Uniate Church. Read_on (No Comments)

Sts. Johns' Church

Sts. Johns' Church
Built at the same time as Lithuania’s conversion to Christianity in 1387, albeit with numerous radical alterations through the centuries, the vast and imposing Sts. Read_on (No Comments)

Sts. Peter & Pauls' Church

Sts. Peter & Pauls' Church
Believed to have been built on the site of a site of worship to Milda, the pagan goddess of love, this breathtaking Late Baroque Read_on (1 Comment)

St. Theresa’s Church

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Probably Vilnius’ best surviving example of Early Baroque religious architecture, work on the first incarnation of St. Theresa’s was completed in around 1650. Read_on (No Comments)