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United States
The United States sacred-site map spans Indigenous homelands, mission churches, Marian shrines, contemplative monasteries, desert pilgrimage landscapes, and newer places of spiritual gathering.
238 sacred sites across 67 regions. Use the tradition links to narrow in.
Sacred journeys
Pilgrimages in United States
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Christianity · California
California Mission Trail
California Missions Trail / El Camino Real
Twenty-one surviving mission sites from San Diego to Sonoma, approached as living churches, Indigenous homelands, and places shaped by colonization.
21 mapped places in United States · 21-station pilgrimage
Christianity · El Paso County, Texas
El Paso Mission Trail
A complete three-church trail along nine miles of the historic Camino Real, linking Ysleta, Socorro, and San Elizario while keeping the region's living Indigenous and borderlands history in view.
3 mapped places in United States · 3-station pilgrimage
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Mission Concepción
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Mission Concepción is a living parish church within a Spanish colonial mission complex in San Antonio, United States....
Mission Espada
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Mission Espada is a living parish church and southern mission complex within an irrigated cultural landscape in San Antonio, United States....
Mission La Purísima Concepción
Lompoc, Lompoc, California, United States
Mission La Purísima Concepción is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Lompoc, Lompoc, California, United States, not as a route label or nearby point of...
Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad
Soledad, Soledad, California, United States
The record concerns a historic mission complex and living religious site within Roman Catholic Christianity and California Indigenous histories....
Mission San Antonio de Padua
Jolon, Jolon, California, United States
Mission San Antonio de Padua is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Jolon, Jolon, California, United States, not as a route label or nearby point of interest....
Mission San Buenaventura
Ventura, Ventura, California, United States
The record concerns a historic mission complex and living religious site within Roman Catholic Christianity and California Indigenous histories....
Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo (Carmel Mission)
Carmel-by-the-Sea, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, United States
Google Places, Wikidata, the supplied encyclopedic record, and a rights-cleared exact-subject image converge on the same place....
Mission San Diego de Alcalá
San Diego, San Diego, California, United States
The record concerns a historic mission complex and living religious site within Roman Catholic Christianity and California Indigenous histories....
Mission San Fernando Rey de España
Mission Hills (Los Angeles), Mission Hills (Los Angeles), California, United States
The record concerns a historic mission complex and living religious site within Roman Catholic Christianity and California Indigenous histories....
Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores)
San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Google Places, Wikidata, the supplied encyclopedic record, and a rights-cleared exact-subject image converge on the same place....
Mission San Francisco Solano
Sonoma, California, United States
Mission San Francisco Solano is a preserved mission complex and public-history site in Sonoma, United States....
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel
San Gabriel, San Gabriel, California, United States
Its inclusion on California Mission Trail is supported by the reviewed route, religious, historical fabric, and structured-whole-site subject cited records....
Mission San José
Fremont, Fremont, California, United States
Google Places, Wikidata, the supplied encyclopedic record, and a rights-cleared exact-subject image converge on the same place....
Mission San José
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Mission San José is a living parish church within a reconstructed Spanish colonial mission complex in San Antonio, United States....
Mission San Juan Bautista
San Juan Bautista, San Juan Bautista, California, United States
Mission San Juan Bautista is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in San Juan Bautista, San Juan Bautista, California, United States, not as a route label or nearby...
Mission San Juan Capistrano
San Juan Capistrano, California, United States
Mission San Juan Capistrano in San Juan Capistrano, California, belongs within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Mission San Juan Capistrano (Texas)
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Mission San Juan Capistrano (Texas) is a living parish church, mission landscape, acequia, and agricultural heritage complex in San Antonio, United States....
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa
San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, California, United States
The record concerns a historic mission complex and living religious site within Roman Catholic Christianity and California Indigenous histories....
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia
Oceanside, Oceanside, California, United States
Google Places, Wikidata, the supplied encyclopedic record, and a rights-cleared exact-subject image converge on the same place....
Mission San Miguel Arcángel
San Miguel, San Miguel, California, United States
Its inclusion on California Mission Trail is supported by the reviewed route, religious, preserved material, and structured-named place consulted evidence....
Mission San Rafael Arcángel
San Rafael, San Rafael, California, United States
Its inclusion on California Mission Trail is supported by the reviewed route, religious, protected fabric, and structured-recorded identity evidence set....
Mission San Xavier del Bac
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Mission San Xavier del Bac in Tucson, Arizona, belongs within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Mission Santa Bárbara
Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States
Google Places, Wikidata, the supplied encyclopedic record, and a rights-cleared exact-subject image converge on the same place....
Mission Santa Clara de Asís
Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California, United States
Its inclusion on California Mission Trail is supported by the reviewed route, religious, conservation record, and structured-identity evidence record materials....
Mission Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States
Its inclusion on California Mission Trail is supported by the reviewed route, religious, material history, and structured-documented entity references....
Mission Santa Inés
Solvang, Solvang, California, United States
Mission Santa Inés is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Solvang, Solvang, California, United States, not as a route label or nearby point of interest....
Mission Socorro (Nuestra Señora de la Concepción del Socorro)
Socorro, Socorro, Texas, United States
Mission Socorro (Nuestra Señora de la Concepción del Socorro) is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Socorro, Socorro, Texas, United States, not as a route...
Mission Ysleta (Nuestra Señora del Carmen)
Ysleta, El Paso, Ysleta, El Paso, Texas, United States
Google Places, Wikidata, the supplied encyclopedic record, and a rights-cleared exact-subject image converge on the same place....
Mo'okini Heiau
Hawi, Hawaii, United States
On a windswept point at the northern tip of Hawaii's Big Island stands Mo'okini Heiau, one of the oldest temples in the Hawaiian archipelago....
Monastery of Christ in the Desert
Abiquiu, New Mexico, United States
Monastery of Christ in the Desert in Abiquiu, New Mexico, belongs within Christian monastic tradition....
Montezuma Well
Rimrock, Arizona, United States
Montezuma Well is a spring-fed limestone basin near Rimrock.
Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, belongs within Episcopal Christianity....
Mother Mosque of America
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States
Mother Mosque of America in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, belongs within Islam. At Mother Mosque of America, sacred life continues through the five daily prayers at Mother Mosque of...
Mounds State Park, Indiana
Anderson, Indiana, United States
Twenty-two centuries ago, the Adena people began building earthen circles in what is now central Indiana....
Moundville Archaeological Park
Moundville, Alabama, United States
Moundville Archaeological Park in Moundville, Alabama, belongs within Indigenous traditions of culturally affiliated Nations....
Mount Adams, Washington
Trout Lake, Washington, United States
Rising 12,276 feet above the Columbia Plateau, Mount Adams is one of five sacred sister mountains for the Yakama Nation....
Mount Diablo, California
Contra Costa County, California, United States
The Ohlone call it Tuyshtak—'at the dawn of time.' The Bay Miwok say the world began here, after a great flood....
Mount Graham, Arizona
Safford, Arizona, United States
Mount Graham rises 10,720 feet in southeastern Arizona, home to the Ga'an—the mountain spirits who guide Apache life....
Mount Royal Mound, Florida
Welaka, Florida, United States
At the edge of Lake George in northeast Florida, a mound rises from the wetlands where the St. Johns River flows north....
Mount San Jacinto, California
Riverside County, California, United States
Mount San Jacinto rises nearly two vertical miles above the Sonoran desert floor outside Palm Springs, creating one of the most dramatic vertical landscapes in North...
Mount Shasta
Siskiyou County, California, United States
Mount Shasta rises 14,179 feet from northern California flatlands, a snow-capped volcano visible for a hundred miles....
Mount Tamalpais
Marin County, California, United States
Mount Tamalpais rises 2,571 feet above San Francisco Bay, a mountain sacred to the Coast Miwok for thousands of years and recognized by the Lakota as the 'Holy Right Eye...
Mt. Baboquivari, Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Baboquivari Peak rises from the Sonoran Desert as the most sacred place of the Tohono O'odham people....
Mt. Haleakala, Maui
Kula, Hawaii, United States
At 10,023 feet above the Pacific, Haleakala's summit crater opens onto a landscape that resembles no other place on Earth....
Mt. Hesperus, Colorado
Mancos, Colorado, United States
At 13,232 feet in Colorado's La Plata Range, Hesperus Mountain rises as Dibe Ntsaa—the Sacred Mountain of the North—one of four peaks that mark the boundaries of Dinetah,...
Mt. Hood, Oregon
Government Camp, Oregon, United States
Mount Hood rises 11,249 feet above the Oregon landscape, a glacier-clad volcano visible from Portland and throughout the region....
Mt. Humphreys, Arizona
Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Humphreys Peak rises to 12,637 feet above the high desert of northern Arizona, the remnant of an ancient volcano and the highest point in the state....
Mt. Katahdin, Maine
Millinocket, Maine, United States
For the Penobscot and Wabanaki peoples, Katahdin is not merely Maine's highest peak but the sacred heart of their homeland....
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Key questions
United States sacred-site questions
What sacred sites can I explore in United States?
Pilgrim Map lists sacred places in United States across living worship sites, heritage landmarks, pilgrimage destinations, and culturally significant landscapes. The current guide lists 238 sites organized by region and tradition.
Which traditions are represented in United States?
The most represented traditions include Indigenous, Roman Catholic Christianity, Roman Catholic Christianity and California Indigenous histories, Christianity, Indigenous traditions of culturally affiliated Nations, Latter Day Saint Restoration traditions.
How should I plan a sacred-site visit in United States?
Start with regional clusters, compare nearby places on the map, then open individual site pages for coordinates, etiquette, and sacred context where available.
Can I view United States sacred sites on a map?
Yes. Switch to map view to compare geographic clusters, then open individual site pages for coordinates, visiting context, and related places.