In addition to trade, various communities were attracted to Trieste by the religious tolerance granted by Maria Teresa.
Jews extend their activities also outside the ghetto, while Ottoman subjects managed to open an Islamic cemetery in 1848, Greeks placed their warehouses around the Orthodox church of St. Nicholas with the Serbs doing the same around the temple of St. Spiridione, the German administrators gathered in the evangelical church of Largo Panfili, while the British prayed in the Anglican Temple on the hill of San Vito.
