The building activity of man and its artifacts are one of the basic components of the environment. In the background of mainly utilitary structures we can observe single buildings that except of using for a concrete purpose are formed as signs. Among all these building structures, and especially in relation to them, we are interested in sacral objects. The first part of the article is devoted to Calvaries as an integral part of natural environment. The final part deals with small sacral architecture in Slovakia as "God’s pain", chapels, wayside crosses, solitary saint’s sculptures – mainly in countryside, but also in rural settlements as well as different pillars, columns of the plague and other small architecture completing the shape of town environment.