Of these, there still exists today the two churches: the Matriz ( the Cathedral ) and the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary.

On the last Sunday of May, the Pilgrimage of Nossa Senhora da Saúde ( Our Lady of Good Health ) covers a distance of between the Matriz Church and the Nossa Senhora da Saúde Shrine, at the foot of São Félix.

The city has one of the largest Catholic churches in the country built in the Neoclassical style, the New Church of Saint Anthony ( Matriz Nova de Santo Antônio ), the largest in the diocese.

They left that church for the Parish Church ( Igreja Matriz ), and then went to the Church of Ajuda.

A Matriz Church was founded by the Bishop of Lisbon, Agapito Colona, in the 14th century, and later amplified and expanded.

The front façade of the Matriz Church of Santiago Maior de Camarate

A few years later, Brugues moved his residence to Praia, began construction on the Matriz Church in 1456, and administered the Captaincy of the island from this location ( around 1460 ), until he disappeared in 1474, on another of his trips between the colony and the continent.

The route splits from the central way in the countryside of Vila do Conde and enters the town throw the Monastery of Santa Clara and the Matriz Church of Vila do Conde was built by king Manuel I of Portugal while in pilgrimage.

The Manueline-style church portico in the Matriz Church along Rua da Igreja, constructed from the wealth of Portuguese discoveries

Matriz Church

The passage of King Manuel through Vila do Conde, during a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, in 1502, helped to develop some of the important infrastructures in the city: the Matriz Church, Praça Nova and municipal buildings, along with new arterials, were begun under the reign of Manuel I.

There are suggestions that many of the churches were once mosques, such as the Matriz Church of Cheleiros, the Church of Santo André and the sanctuary of Serra do Socorro.

Loriga was an ecclesiastical parish of the vicarage of the Royal Padroado and its Matriz Church was ordered constructed in 1233, by King Sancho II.

* Matriz Church of São Martinho-the parochial church is located in the middle of the main village, and includes two minor alters ( with an image of Nossa Senhora do Rosário and Nosso Senhor Crucificado ) and a main alter ( with an image of its patron saint São Martinho ); the ecclesiastical parish of Alfaião pertained to the Monastery of Castro de Avelãs since 1490, the archbishop of Braga assigning the abbot at the time ; between 1501 – 1514, its clergy were served from the monastery ; the construction of the current church occurred in the 17th century ; the first baptisms were registered in 1627 ; the first marriage was documented in 1628 ; in 1706, its second parish priest Father Carvalho da Costa, who was assigned by a canon at the Sé Church in Miranda, earned 150 $ 000 réis, the parish included 66 neighbours ; the first death was recorded in 1724 ; by 21 April 1758, the parish which was located between two mounts and pertained to the bishop of Miranda do Douro, comarca and seat of Bragança, and was subject to the House of Braganza.

The Matriz Church, on a slight elevation, dates back to the 18th century.

* Matriz Church of Aveleda

* Matriz Church of São Pedro ()-a stoic single-nave brick church constructed, nonetheless, in the Manueline-style ;

One of the earliest churches on the island of São Jorge, the Matriz Church of Nossa Senhora do Rosário, in Topo

The primitive Church Matriz de São Salvador was completed and inaugurated on June 28, 1514 ; it compliments the Flemish church of the same name in Bruges and the Sé of Angra do Heroísmo.

* Praça Velha-situated near the Matriz Church of Santa Cruz, this square is at the heart of the earliest settlements, with many older buildings and the original municipal offices.

* Matriz Church of Santa Cruz-originally constructed in the 16th, the front facade and bell tower of this church located in the parish of Santa Cruz was constructed in 1844, and its interior is highlighted by Manueline-style chapel and ornamented pulpit extracted from the older convent of São Francisco in Ponta Delgada ( dating back to October 9, 1782 ).

Nossa Senhora do Carmo Church

John I also sponsored the rebuilding in late gothic style of the old Church of Our Lady of the Rock ( Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Pena ), located inside the castle.

* Church of Our Lady of Carmel ( 嘉模聖母教堂 ): Catholic, Taipa belongs to the Nossa Senhora do Carmo Parish ( 聖嘉模堂區 ).

Azulejo s by Willem van der Kloet ( 1708 ) in the transept of the Church of Nossa Senhora da Nazaré ; Nazaré ( Portugal ) | Nazaré, Portugal

The Nossa Senhora da Penha Matrix Church

Its origins are entwined with the religious and beneficent brotherhoods ( irmandades ) organized by the Roman Catholic Church among ethnic Yoruba slaves, the Order of Our Lady of the Good Death ( Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte ), for women, and the Order of Our Lord of the Martyrdom ( Nosso Senhor dos Martírios ), for men.

The Portuguese Franciscans built a church here in 1596 called Nossa Senhora de Salvação, which is popularly known today as Portuguese Church and is a familiar Dadar landmark.

The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace — also known by its original French name Cathédrale de Notre Dame de la Paix, its Portuguese variant Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Paz and its Hawaiian derivative Malia o ka Malu Hale Pule Nui — is the Mother Church of the Diocese of Honolulu and houses the cathedra of the Bishop of Honolulu in Honolulu,

In Sacavém the community that circled the Church of Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres maintained their faith and culture ( under the bishop of Lisbon ), something that was possible due to the religious tolerance of the invaders to the Ahl al-Kitāb ( or People of the Book ).

* Convent of the Poor Clares and Church of Nossa Senhora da Purificação (), the Mannerist architecture devoted originally to the monastery of the Poor Clares Xabreganas, and later operated by the Ministry of War, before being plans were established to convert the spaces into commercial and leisure services, a civic centre and local Junta de Freguesia ;

The Church of Nossa Senhora da Assunção overlooking the parishes of Santo Tirso and Monte Córdova

* Church of Nossa Senhora da Assunção ()-authored by the Italian architect Korrrodi, the basilica-like church houses the image of Nossa Senhora da Assunção ( Our Lady of the Assumption ), considered one of the best conserved sculptures from the end of the 19th century sculpturer João da Fonseca Lapa.

In addition, the community included the Church of the Misericordia, hospital, six chapels, municipal building, customhouse, the Convent of Santa Clara ( now remodelled and expanded since its construction ), and the Convent of Nossa Senhora da Encarnação.

In 1952 the Parish Nossa Senhora Aparecida was built, and is now known as " Igreja Amarela " ( Yellow Church ), and the city population kept on increasing.

The church dedicated to São Pedro (), which, already on the decline, was substituted by the new Church of Santa Maria de Laviados, later to the invocation of Nossa Senhora da Conceição.

The Church of Nossa Senhora da Nazaré

The Church of Nossa Senhora da Nazaré is a rich baroque building, with splendid tiles on its interior.

The portal of the Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição Velha, in downtown Lisbon, has also survived destruction.

On the Ladeira de São Francisco in central Angra is the Igreja da Nossa Senhora da Guia ( Church of Our Lady of Guia ), where the seafarer Paulo da Gama is buried.

The Jesuit priests arrived in the Sinos River Valley region in the mid-nineteenth century and took over the Church Nossa Senhora da Piedade in Hamburgo Velho.