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The Roman Catholic community in Chisinau, consisting primarily of Polish individuals, was formed in the late 1830s. Ten years later, in 1840, utilizing their own financial contributions, the community constructed a sacred place. The church project received approval in St Petersburg, with architect and sculptor Joseph I Charlemand playing a significant role in its neoclassical design, influenced by Italian Renaissance architecture. This religious building, known as the Cathedral of Divine Providence (Romanian: Catedrala Romano-Catolică Providența Divină), is affiliated with the Catholic Church and is located in Chișinău, Moldova. It serves as the seat of the Diocese of Chișinău. Initially built in 1836 by architect Avraam Melnikov, thanks to grants from Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, the church adopted a neoclassical style. However, with the arrival of Soviet power in 1944, all parish activities ceased. In 1963, the church was closed, and the faithful were compelled to use a small chapel in the cemetery. It was only in 1989 that the building was returned to the parish. Since 1993, the church has been the host of the Apostolic Administration of Moldova and, since 2001, the newly established Diocese of Chișinău. At present, it is estimated that there are approximately 20,000 Catholics in Moldova.

The National Museum of Art of Moldova, established in 1939, is a prestigious institution located in Chisinau's city center. It occupies three architecturally significant buildings: Hertza House, Kligman House, and Dadiani headquarters, dating back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The museum also safeguards the Church of the Assumption in Causeni, a 16th-century historical monument with a unique painting from 1763, which is considered a valuable treasure for the Republic of Moldova. The Dadiani headquarters, built in 1901 by architect Alexander Bernardazzi, served various purposes over the years, including being the headquarters for the Central Committee of the Communist Party. In 1989, after the dissolution of the Museum of the Communist Party of Moldova, the building, along with its two annexes, which suffered damages from earthquakes, was transferred to the National Museum of Art. Unfortunately, due to a lack of investment for restoration, a significant portion of the central part of the building had to be closed to the public for more than 25 years. Consequently, exhibitions were primarily organized in the annexes. The museum's extensive collection comprises over 39,000 pieces categorized into different collections, such as ancient art, late and popular medieval art, modern and contemporary national art, Russian art, Western European universal art, numismatics and medals, and oriental art. The original collection, formed in 1939, included works donated by prominent Bessarabian artists and some pieces provided by the Ministry of Cults and Arts in Bucharest. However, during the Soviet occupation and the subsequent war, the collection was transferred and ultimately disappeared. After the war, the museum reconstructed its collection through transfers from major Russian museums and various private donations, along with numerous acquisitions from collectors.

Baptist churches in Bulgaria are part of a global movement that originated during the Reformation in the 16th century and is associated with various societies and individuals. This movement, with over 100 million members worldwide, traces its roots to figures like John Smyth, Thomas Helwys, Roger Williams, and John Clarke. In Bulgaria, the presence of Baptists can be traced back to the 1860s. The Evangelical Baptist Church in Varna was established in 1927 and was initially located on Nish Street (formerly known as Georgi Dimitrov Boulevard). However, in 1985, the local government mandated its relocation to the outskirts of the city, resulting in the demolition of the original building. In 1989, a small group of believers emerged with a vision to bring the church back to the city center. Over the course of seven years, they relocated multiple times in search of a suitable place of worship, all while experiencing continuous growth. Eventually, in 1999, a solution presented itself when the church acquired a plot of land that remains in their possession to this day.

The house was owned by the Plovdiv merchant Georgi Mavridi. It was built in 1829-1830 by an unknown builder and is a representative of the Plovdiv symmetrical house. It has irregular outlines of the foundations due to the displacement of the terrain and the classical symmetry of the floors, enriched with numerous bay-windows, which give the building lightness and spaciousness. The parlors and the rooms on the two floors have wood-carved ceilings and are decorated with ornaments or landscape niches called 'alafranga' (meaning in a French manner). The most significant event in the history of the 19th century building is the visit of the French diplomat and future minister, Alphonse de Lamartine. On August 2nd ,1833, he visited Georgi Mavridi's home and on August 6th continued his travels to Sofia. The 90th anniversary of the visit of the great Frenchman was solemnly celebrated on May 6th, 1923. In the presence of the French Plenipotentiary Minister Georges Picot, the Minister of Education Stoyan Omarchevski, officials, alumni and many citizens, a memorial plate dedicated to the event was consecrated. Thus, along with the plate in memory of the famous Frenchman, the house of Georgi Mavridi was called the Lamartine House. The credit is to Gaston Sergerar, author of books on Bulgarian history, published in Paris, who for many years collected information about Lamartine, his trip through the Balkans and his stay in Plovdiv. This building is not the only one in which Lamartine has stayed on Bulgarian land. But it is the only one who has survived through fires, earthquakes and misunderstood modernization, in order to keep the memory of Lamartine, the first French diplomat, who officially declared that the Bulgarians were completely ready and worthy of their freedom. In the newer history of the house, the visits of Rene Fouquet, Mayor of Paris and Edouard Herriot, twice the Prime Minister of France (both visits were in 1933, when 100 years of Lamartin's visit in Plovdiv were celebrated) should also be mentioned. In 1989 the house was visited by the French President François Mitterrand. In 1960 a museum exhibition for Larmartine was opened in the house. For many years the house has been used as a creative home of the Union of Bulgarian Writers. The building was renovated in 1929, 1947 and 1953, fortified in 1955 and additionally restored in 1971 to 1975.

The East Pyongyang Grand Theatre is a 2,500-seat theatre located in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. It was the site of the 2008 concert by the New York Philharmonic, which was the first significant cultural visit to North Korea by the United States since the Korean War. The hall was built in 1989 and is normally a venue for performances that celebrate North Korea's dynastic leaders and national achievements. The December before the concert, it had hosted an opera honoring Kim Jong-suk, the mother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. On New Year's Day 2007, following reconstruction, the theatre hosted the Mansudae Art Troupe. Its 'massive' stage needed an acoustic shell built to properly project the orchestra's sound. The theatre was specifically chosen by Zarin Mehta, who rejected the home of the North Korea State Symphony as too small. The overall size is more than 62,000 square meters. A colonnaded great hall (lobby) includes a mural of Ulrim Falls. According to a Reuters journalist, its architecture is 'bland communist', and a 'hulking, ramshackle structure the locals struggle to keep heated and lit at night'.

During the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, Kabli was first and foremost a village of seamen and ship-building. Several hundred register ton long-stiance sailboats, barques and schooners, which would load up with forestry products right there at the seaside to take them to England and further, were built in Kabli. Ship-building started to diminish as early as at the beginning of the 20th century. The last vessels built in Kabli were the motor sailboat Maru (1924), sailboat Pikklaid (1925) and the motorboat of Neptun (1930). Neptun sailed between European ports under the command of the Baltic-German Captain Fersen. The boat ran aground whilst moving into the Kiel Canal in 1938 and suffered great damages. It is said that Fersen immediately ran off to go to a bar. A Danish salvage boat managed to free Neptun from the shallows and tow it to Copenhagen where it was auctioned off to cover the costs of the rescue. A legend says that if the captain is the first to leave the ship in the case of an accident, disaster ensues. Although Neptun was auctioned off, after a while, it ran onto a mine and broke in half. The front of the boat made it back home to the shipyard at the Kabli beach. In 1989, men from Kabli built a bus pavilion shaped like half of the boat based on Bruno Raab's illustrations. It was meant to symbolise the launch of Neptun, the last wooden ship to be launched at the Kabli beach.

Since these paintings on the rock were first discovered in 1989, more paintings were discovered until 1994. Thus these paintings are considered as the largest number of rock paintings ever discovered in Korea. These paintings are supposed to have been carved during the Bronze Age. Perhaps these are supposed to have been symbols of fertility among primitive people.

This building was designed by the Japanese architect Tatsuno Kingo. It functioned as the main building of Joseon bank (founded in August, 1911), and construction started in 1907 and finished in 1912. In June 1950, the Bank of Korea was established as Korea's central bank and used this building as its Head Office. This building consists of a one story basement and three over-ground floors. It is made of ferroconcrete and by stacking some bricks. Granite is used for the outer wall and copper plates for the steel-frame structure. The floor plan is a symmetrical H shape. Circular domes are present on both side corners giving the place the feel of a Renaissance style French chateau. The interior of the building was burned during the Korean War and restored in 1958. Along with the establishment of a new building in 1987, this building was restored to its current state in 1989. In 2001, the interior of the building was remodeled. It is currently used as the Bank of Korea Museum.

The Wine Hill of Sabile has been formed twice - for the first time in German period (14th - 16th century) but after that it has been started completely all over again in the period of the first independence of Latvia (1918 - 1940) in 1936. In the time of Duke Jacob (17th century) the formation of Sabile's Wine Hill is celebrated. The rebirth of the Wine Hill started in 1936. It is mentioned in different sources that the initiative came from the president of that time Karlis Ulmanis. The proof that the Wine Hill has been developed and yielded during the first independence of Latvia was the grape exhibition in Jelgava. There was also a small stand of the first harvest of Sabile's Wine Hill. Then the Second World War began and the development of Sabile's Wine Hill was interrupted. After the war the Gardening and Experimental Station of Pure continued to arrange the vineyard. But the managers of it changed again and as a consequence the quality of work decreased. After a while there was no one to take care of the Wine Hill. In 1989 a group of enthusiastic students started a renovation of Sabile's Wine Hill. The Wine Hill of Sabile was honored by the visit of the ex-president of Latvia Guntis Ulmanis. Today the height of the Wine Hill is 33.7 m (about 115 meters above the sea level). The total area of the vineyards is 1.5 ha. The plantations in the vineyard are regularly supplemented. There are about 800 vines of 30 different sorts. The well-known Latvian selectionist Pauls Sukatnieks has developed most of them. Here you can find various sorts, for example, Zilga (it forms the majority of the vines), Dvietes zila, Supaga, Sukribe, Guna, Veldze, Veina, Spulga, Meda, Lauma, Agra, Ritausma. There are also sorts developed by the Latvian selectionist Gunvaldis Vesmins, Dovga, Ljepajas dzintars, Ciravas agra and Liepajas agra, also Russian sorts Hasanskij sladkij and Skujina 675 and Lithuanian sorts Jodupe, Jadviga and Sele. The Wine Hill of Sabile was registered in the Guinness World Record Book as the most northern open-air vineyard in the world. In 2018 the landscape of Abava River Valley from Sabile Wine Hill was chosen as one of the 50 Latvian landscape treasures in the project 'Landscape treasures'.

Prominent monument in Vilnius. According to a legend, which finds its source in some historic events, seven Franciscan friars were beheaded on top of this hill. Wooden crosses have been sited in the location since the early 17th century, and they became a symbol of the city and an integral part of the city's skyline. As the wood rotted, the crosses needed to be periodically replaced. In 1916, a concrete monument was designed by Polish–Lithuanian architect and sculptor Antoni Wiwulski or Antanas Vivulskis in Lithuanian. It was torn down in 1950 by order of the Soviet authorities. A new monument designed by Henrikas Šilgalis was erected in its place in 1989. The monument was depicted on 50 litas banknote.

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