Seismic assessment of Romanian Orthodox masonry churches in the Banat area through a multi-level analysis framework

•The seismic risk assessment of typical historical masonry churches located in the Banat region, Romania, through multilevel analysis procedures is presented.•By selecting six churches in this area, territorial scale assessments are carried out by means of LV0 and LV1 methods recommended by Italian code.•In a second step, local (LV2) and global (LV3) numerical analyses are performed on one representative church with the aim of identifying possible collapse mechanisms.•The LV2 method is applied by following a computational kinematic limit analysis approach.•In the LV3 method, modal linear and non-linear static analyses are carried out on a global finite element model.