50 Litų Vilnius Cathedral

Vilnius Cathedral has an unusually complicated ecclesiastical history for a building that looks, on the outside, almost entirely neoclassical. The site hosted a pagan temple before the first wooden Christian church was raised there in 1387, following Lithuania's late conversion — the last major pagan state in Europe to Christianize. The cathedral was repeatedly rebuilt, burned, and reconsecrated over four centuries before Johann Christoph Glaubitz and later Laurynas Stuoka-Gucevičius transformed it into its current form in the late 18th century.

Soviet authorities closed the cathedral in 1950 and repurposed it as an art gallery for nearly four decades.