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22 places connected through historical era. Read them together to see both shared patterns and the local histories that resist a single Christian story.
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Reformation · Swiss ReformedGrossmünsterZürich, SwitzerlandRomanesque church begun c. 1100; Reformed from 1520sThe Romanesque minster where Huldrych Zwingli’s sequential biblical preaching helped launch the Zürich Reformation and reshape worship and civic life.Read the full history Reformation · Church of ScotlandSt Giles’ CathedralEdinburgh, United KingdomMedieval church with major fabric from the 14th–15th centuries; Reformed from 1560The High Kirk of Edinburgh, where Reformation preaching, covenanting conflict, and Scottish public worship converge.Read the full history Reformation · Reformed (Presbyterian)St. Pierre CathedralGeneva, Switzerland, Switzerlandc. 1160–1252; became Reformed in 1535John Calvin's principal pulpit and a defining center from which Reformed Christianity spread across Europe and beyond.Read the full history Reformation · LutheranSt. Mary’s Town Church, WittenbergWittenberg, GermanyMedieval parish church; Reformation worship established in the 1520sWittenberg’s parish church, where Luther regularly preached, the congregation received evangelical reforms, and Cranach’s altarpiece pictured Lutheran sacramental life.Read the full history Reformation · LutheranSt. Thomas Church, LeipzigLeipzig, GermanyMedieval church; late-Gothic rebuilding completed in the 15th centuryThe Leipzig church where Luther preached and Johann Sebastian Bach served as cantor, joining Reformation proclamation to one of Christianity’s great musical traditions.Read the full history Reformation · AnglicanKing’s College Chapel, CambridgeCambridge, United Kingdom1446–1515; glazing and screen completed under later Tudor patronageA royal college chapel whose fan vault, Tudor glass, carved screen, and choir carried a late-medieval foundation through Reformation into global broadcast culture.Read the full history Reformation · LutheranAll Saints' Castle Church (Schlosskirche)Wittenberg, Germany, Germany1340s; rebuilt 1885–1892The door where the Reformation began — and where Luther is buried.Read the full history Reformation · Church of South India with Portuguese, Dutch, and Anglican historySt. Francis Church, KochiFort Kochi, Kerala, IndiaPortuguese church established in the early 16th centuryA modest Fort Kochi church that passed from Portuguese Catholic to Dutch Reformed to Anglican and united Protestant use, recording shifting empires on India’s coast.Read the full history Reformation · CatholicCathedral Basilica of LimaLima, PeruFounded 1535; repeatedly rebuilt after earthquakesLima’s repeatedly rebuilt colonial cathedral, a center of archiepiscopal power whose art, tombs, earthquakes, conquest, and Indigenous presence demand layered interpretation.Read the full history Reformation · Russian Orthodox heritageSaint Basil’s CathedralMoscow, Russia1555–1561The multicolored church ensemble on Red Square, commissioned by Ivan IV to commemorate conquest and transformed into a global image of Moscow.Read the full history Reformation · CatholicSé Cathedral of GoaOld Goa, IndiaConstruction begun 1562; completed in the 17th centuryThe immense cathedral of Portuguese Goa, built as a monument of conquest and archiepiscopal power within an Indian Christian landscape older and wider than empire.Read the full history Reformation · Catholic — AugustinianBasilica Minore del Santo Niño de CebuCebu City, PhilippinesConvent founded 1565; present church completed in the 18th centuryCebu’s Augustinian basilica of the Santo Niño, where a colonial-era image became the center of Filipino devotion, festival, identity, and debate.Read the full history Reformation · Catholic — Jesuit heritageBasilica of Bom JesusOld Goa, India1594–1605The Jesuit basilica housing the body of Francis Xavier, a center of Asian Catholic pilgrimage and a monument inseparable from mission and colonial expansion.Read the full history Reformation · Armenian ApostolicVank CathedralNew Julfa, Isfahan, Iran1655–1664The Armenian cathedral of New Julfa, whose domed exterior and painted interior record forced migration, mercantile networks, Christian survival, and Safavid exchange.Read the full history Reformation · AnglicanSt. Paul’s Cathedral, LondonLondon, United KingdomPresent cathedral built 1675–1710 on an ancient Christian siteChristopher Wren’s domed cathedral rebuilt after London’s Great Fire, serving parish, city, empire, nation, protest, mourning, and Anglican worship.Read the full history Reformation · CatholicMission San Xavier del BacTohono O’odham Nation near Tucson, Arizona, United StatesMission established 1692; present church 1783–1797The white mission church of Wa:k, built within Tohono O’odham homeland and sustained as a living parish beyond romantic images of Spanish colonial architecture.Read the full history Reformation · Ethiopian Orthodox TewahedoDebre Berhan Selassie ChurchGondar, EthiopiaLate 17th or early 18th centuryGondar’s celebrated painted church, where rows of angelic faces, biblical narratives, royal patronage, and Ethiopian Orthodox liturgy envelop the sanctuary.Read the full history Reformation · EpiscopalOld North ChurchBoston, Massachusetts, United States1723Boston’s oldest surviving church building, known for the 1775 lantern signal and increasingly interpreted through Anglican, revolutionary, maritime, and slavery histories.Read the full history Reformation · LutheranFrauenkirche DresdenDresden, GermanyBaroque church built 1726–1743; reconstructed 1994–2005Dresden’s great domed Lutheran church, destroyed in the 1945 firestorm and rebuilt from recovered stones as a contested but powerful sign of remembrance.Read the full history Reformation · MoravianBerthelsdorf Church and the Herrnhut RenewalBerthelsdorf and Herrnhut, GermanyMedieval parish; central to the Moravian renewal of 1727The village church linked with the 1727 Moravian communion service that became a remembered turning point in renewal, prayer, community, and mission.Read the full history Reformation · MethodistJohn Wesley’s New RoomBristol, United KingdomBuilt in 1739; enlarged in 1748The oldest surviving Methodist building, designed for preaching, care, education, organizing, and life together.Read the full history Reformation · CatholicMission San Carlos Borromeo de CarmeloCarmel-by-the-Sea, California, United StatesMission founded 1770; Carmel site established 1771Junípero Serra’s California headquarters and burial church, requiring an account of Franciscan mission, Indigenous labor, coercion, devotion, loss, and survival.Read the full history