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The Scots Monastery church of St. James was built between 1175 and 1180 for Irish Benedictine monks who had settled in Regensburg in the 11th century; Scottish monks took over in 1577. Its north portal, the Schottenportal, carries an extensive Romanesque relief. The complex is now a Catholic seminary and its church is not generally open to visitors.

Regensburg Cathedral is the seat of the Catholic Diocese of Regensburg and the city's main Gothic church. Construction began in 1273 after a fire destroyed its Romanesque predecessor; the nave was largely complete by 1520, while the two 105-metre west towers were finished only in 1869. The interior holds stained glass from the 13th to the 19th centuries.

The Old Chapel is a collegiate church founded in 1002 by Emperor Henry II on the site of a Carolingian chapel built over a Roman temple to Juno, making it one of Bavaria's oldest Christian sites. Its plain exterior hides an interior remodelled in the 18th century with elaborate Rococo stucco and ceiling frescoes; Pope Paul VI raised it to basilica minor in 1964.