Regional sacred-site guide
Sacred sites in New South Wales
Explore 8 sacred places in New South Wales, Australia, with a regional map and links to detailed site guides.
Traditions in New South Wales
Site types in New South Wales
Showing 1-8 of 8 sites in this regional guide
Baiame Cave
Milbrodale / Singleton, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia
On a sandstone escarpment above Bulga Creek in the Hunter Valley, a painted figure with outstretched arms spanning roughly five metres represents the creator being known...
Ku-ring-gai Chase Aboriginal Heritage Walk
Sydney / Ku-ring-gai Chase, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia
The Aboriginal Heritage Walk in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park threads past rock engravings, hand stencils, and middens left by the Garigal and Darramurragal peoples...
Lake Mungo
Willandra Lakes, New South Wales, Australia
In the dry lakebed of outback Australia lies evidence of humanity's earliest spiritual practices—a woman cremated with ceremony 42,000 years ago, a man laid to rest with...
Mount Wollumbin
Tweed Shire Council, New South Wales, Australia
Mount Tomorri rises 2,416 metres above southern Albania, visible from Berat and the Osum River valley....
Mount Yengo
Wollombi / Yengo National Park, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia
Mount Yengo's unusually flat summit is understood by its Aboriginal custodians as the place where Baiame, the creator being, completed his work and returned to the sky...
Mutawintji Historic Site
Mutawintji / Broken Hill region, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia
Mutawintji holds one of New South Wales's largest collections of Aboriginal rock art, at a site that hosted regional gatherings of up to a thousand people for initiation...
Red Hands Cave
Glenbrook / Blue Mountains, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia
A sandstone shelter in the Blue Mountains carries dozens of ochre hand stencils, left by Darug and Gundungurra people across centuries and dated to roughly 500 to 1,600...
Worimi Conservation Lands
Nelson Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Along the coast north of Newcastle, the largest moving coastal sand dunes in the Southern Hemisphere stretch 32 kilometres....
Key questions
New South Wales sacred-site questions
- How many sacred sites are listed in New South Wales?
- This regional guide currently includes 8 sacred sites in New South Wales, Australia.
- Which traditions are represented in New South Wales?
- The most represented traditions in the current guide include Indigenous, Islam.
- Can I view New South Wales sacred sites on a map?
- Yes. Switch to map view to compare the listed places, then open a site page for coordinates and visiting context.