Its enormous, ornate churches are a far cry from the simple biblical sites of the imagination.

Since its village days in the early 1800's, Brooklyn has taken pride in building large, ornate and felicitous churches.

It passed in 1147 to the Cistercians, who gradually enlarged and rebuilt the original ornate church.

Plotting one's course by guidebook, there can sometimes seem no end to the ornate churches carved from pink and green cantera stone.

It is an ornate wooden church built late in the 19th century.

He uses his hands to keep the ornate old church looking nice.

The doors then closed against the morning sunlight, and from inside the vast emptiness of the ornate old church, voices rose.

During the day, duck into hole-in-the-wall art galleries tucked among the ornate churches and fragrant orange trees.

At its completion it was one of the most ornate churches in the city, and the only one to have a dome.

In Lutsk's old quarter, a 14th-century castle stands surrounded by ornate 17th-century churches and homes.