Physical form
Built sacred place
672 sacred places classified as built sacred place in Pilgrim Map. This category includes related, more specific forms.
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Sacred Heart Cathedral stands at the center of Sarajevo, a Neo-Gothic witness to the restoration of Catholicism in Bosnia after nearly seven hundred years without a...
Aparecida, Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida
Aparecida, São Paulo, Brazil
The largest Marian shrine in the world rises above the Paraíba Valley in southeastern Brazil, housing a small dark statue of the Virgin Mary found in a river three...
Barra de Santana, Church of Matriz de Santa Ana - Paróquia Santa Ana e São Joaquim
Barra de Santana, Paraíba, Brasil
No description available yet.
Bom Jesus da Lapa, Santuário do Bom Jesus da Lapa
Bom Jesus da Lapa, Bahia, Brazil
Inside a limestone hill on the banks of the São Francisco River, natural caves have held Catholic worship for over three centuries....
Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Congonhas
Congonhas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
On a hillside in Minas Gerais, twelve prophets in soapstone look down from their staircase, scrolls unfurled, announcing what the chapels below depict: Christ's Passion,...
Aladzha Monastery
Golden Sands / Varna, Varna Province, Bulgaria
Aladzha Monastery is a documented monastery in Golden Sands / Varna, Varna Province, Bulgaria, connected with Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity....
Cherepish Monastery
Lyutibrod, Vratsa Province, Bulgaria
Cherepish Monastery is a documented monastery in Lyutibrod, Vratsa Province, Bulgaria, connected with Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity....
Dragalevtsi Monastery
Sofia, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria
Dragalevtsi Monastery is a documented monastery in Sofia, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria, connected with Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity....
Dryanovo Monastery
Dryanovo, Gabrovo Province, Bulgaria
Dryanovo Monastery is a documented monastery in Dryanovo, Gabrovo Province, Bulgaria, connected with Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity....
Etropole Monastery
Etropole, Sofia Province, Bulgaria
Etropole Monastery is a documented monastery in Etropole, Sofia Province, Bulgaria, connected with Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity....
Glozhene Monastery
Glozhene, Lovech Province, Bulgaria
Glozhene Monastery is a documented monastery in Glozhene, Lovech Province, Bulgaria, connected with Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity....
Krastova Gora Church, Borovo, Bulgaria
Borovo / Laki, Plovdiv Province, Bulgaria
No description available yet.
Kremikovtsi Monastery
Sofia, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria
Kremikovtsi Monastery is a documented monastery in Sofia, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria, connected with Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity....
Lozen Monastery of Saint Saviour
Lozen / Sofia, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria
Lozen Monastery of Saint Saviour is a documented monastery in Lozen / Sofia, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria, connected with Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity....
Osenovlashki Monastery
Osenovlag, Sofia Province, Bulgaria
Osenovlashki Monastery is a documented monastery in Osenovlag, Sofia Province, Bulgaria, connected with Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity....
Patriarchal Monastery of the Holy Trinity
Veliko Tarnovo, Veliko Tarnovo Province, Bulgaria
Patriarchal Monastery of the Holy Trinity is a documented monastery in Veliko Tarnovo, Veliko Tarnovo Province, Bulgaria, connected with Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity....
Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo
Ivanovo, Ruse Province, Bulgaria
Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo is a documented church in Ivanovo, Ruse Province, Bulgaria, connected with Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity....
Rozhen Monastery
Rozhen, Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria
Rozhen Monastery is a documented monastery in Rozhen, Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria, connected with Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity....
Sokolski Monastery
Etar / Gabrovo, Gabrovo Province, Bulgaria
Sokolski Monastery is a documented monastery in Etar / Gabrovo, Gabrovo Province, Bulgaria, connected with Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity....
Sveta Bogoroditsa Church
Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Sveta Bogoroditsa stands in central Plovdiv as the city's principal Orthodox cathedral, an active place of worship on a site where Christians have gathered since the ninth...
Transfiguration Monastery
Samovodene / Veliko Tarnovo, Veliko Tarnovo Province, Bulgaria
Transfiguration Monastery is a documented monastery in Samovodene / Veliko Tarnovo, Veliko Tarnovo Province, Bulgaria, connected with Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity....
Troyan Monastery
Oreshak, Lovech Province, Bulgaria
Troyan Monastery is a documented monastery in Oreshak, Lovech Province, Bulgaria, connected with Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity....
Zemen Monastery
Zemen, Pernik Province, Bulgaria
Zemen Monastery is a documented monastery in Zemen, Pernik Province, Bulgaria, connected with Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity....
Basilica of Notre-Dame-du-Cap, Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
On the banks of the St. Lawrence River, in Quebec's Trois-Rivieres, a tiny stone chapel from 1714 and a monumental octagonal basilica from 1964 stand side by side....
Sanctuaire Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré
Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Quebec, Canada
The Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré stands on the Côte-de-Beaupré, about thirty-five kilometres north-east of Quebec City....
Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Stará Boleslav, Czech Republic
Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav, Střední Čechy, Česko
No description available yet.
Church of the Name of the Virgin Mary, Křtiny, Czech Republic
Křtiny, Jihomoravský kraj, Česko
No description available yet.
Basilica de Andacollo
Andacollo, Región de Coquimbo, Chile
No description available yet.
Caguach, Iglesia Jesús Nazareno
Quinchao, Región de Los Lagos, Chile
No description available yet.
Iglesia de La Tirana
Pozo Almonte, Tarapacá, Chile
In the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, a village of eight hundred swells to a quarter million every July as pilgrims converge on the Santuario de La Tirana....
Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá
Boyacá, Boyacá, Colombia
The Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá holds the painting of Colombia's patroness: a cotton canvas image of the Virgin Mary that deteriorated beyond...
Basilica of Señor de los Milagros, Buga
Buga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
No description available yet.
Church of Our Lady of the Rosary of the Renewal
Boyacá, Boyacá, Colombia
In the center of Chiquinquira, a modest parish church stands on the exact spot where the most significant miracle in Colombian Catholic history occurred....
Sanctuary of Las Lajas
Nariño, Nariño, Colombia
In a jungle canyon near the Ecuador border, a neo-Gothic basilica rises one hundred meters above the Guaitara River, its foundations a bridge spanning the gorge....
Church of Our Lady of Krasno
Krasno, Lika-Senj, Croatia
In the Velebit Mountains, at approximately 800 meters above sea level, a church stands at the site where, according to a legend dating to 1219, shepherds discovered a...
Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Marija Bistrica, Krapina-Zagorje, Croatia
Marija Bistrica houses Croatia's most revered sacred image: a wooden Black Madonna that was twice concealed in the church walls to protect it from Ottoman raiders and...
El Cobre
Santiago de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
No description available yet.
Iglesia del Rincon
Boyeros, La Habana, Cuba
No description available yet.
St. Vitus Cathedral
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Rising from Prague Castle's heights, St. Vitus Cathedral embodies nearly eleven centuries of Czech spiritual and national aspiration....
Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, Bad Staffelstein, Germany
Bad Staffelstein, Bavaria, Germany
The Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers stands on a hill above the Main valley in Upper Franconia, on the site where a fifteenth-century shepherd reported visions of the...
Basilica of the Virgin Mary, Kevelaer, Germany
Kevelaer, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Kevelaer is the largest Catholic pilgrimage destination in north-western Europe, built around a small printed image of Mary as Consoler of the Afflicted....
Cologne Cathedral
Köln, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Cologne Cathedral rises from the Rhine plain in twin spires that took six centuries to complete....
Iglesia de Baños
Baños, Azuay, Ecuador
No description available yet.
Church of Saint George, Cairo
Mit Damsis wa Kafr Abu Girg, Cairo, Egypt
The Church of Saint George in Old Cairo rises from the foundations of a Roman tower, its circular form rare in the Christian world....
Church of the Virgin Mary, Daqadus, Egypt
Mit Ghamr City, Dakahlia, Egypt
In the Nile Delta village of Daqadus, a Coptic church marks where the Holy Family rested during their flight into Egypt....
Saints Sergius and Bacchus Church (Abu Serga)
Old Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Abu Serga is a Coptic Orthodox church in Old Cairo built atop the Roman fortress of Babylon, its exact founding date disputed between a 4th-5th century popular tradition...
Lindisfarne Priory
Holy Island, Holy Island, Northumberland, United Kingdom
This entry concerns Lindisfarne Priory, not Holy Island as a whole; tides and causeway conditions must be checked separately before travel....
St Oswald's Church, Heavenfield
near Chollerford (Hadrian's Wall), near Chollerford (Hadrian's Wall), Northumberland, United Kingdom
St Oswald's Church, Heavenfield is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in near Chollerford (Hadrian's Wall), near Chollerford (Hadrian's Wall), Northumberland,...
Basilica of Guadalupe (Spain)
Guadalupe, Extremadura, España
No description available yet.
Basilica of the Royal Marian Shrine of Our Lady of Candelaria, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
On Tenerife's Atlantic coast, the Basilica of Our Lady of Candelaria holds the patroness of the Canary Islands in a sanctuary built above the cave where the Guanche people...
Burgos Cathedral
Burgos, Burgos, Spain
Burgos Cathedral rises in the heart of Castile, Spain's first Gothic church and the only Spanish cathedral designated as a standalone World Heritage Site....
Church of El Salvador, Caravaca de la Cruz
Caravaca de la Cruz, Región de Murcia, España
No description available yet.
Church of the Nuestra Senora de la Peña, Vega de Rio Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain
Betancuria, España
No description available yet.
Church of the Holy Cross
Rauma, Satakunta, Finland
Rauma's Church of the Holy Cross is a medieval fieldstone church first associated with a Franciscan friary and now serving a Lutheran parish....
Turku Cathedral
Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland
Turku Cathedral is Finland's medieval mother church, the seat of the Lutheran Archbishop of Turku, and the starting point of the St Olav Waterway....
Aire Cathedral
Landes, France
In the lower town of Aire-sur-l'Adour, the Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste has been a seat of bishops since the early Middle Ages....
Aix Cathedral
Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Rising on the site of the Roman forum of Aix and a sixth-century baptistery, Saint-Sauveur layers nearly two thousand years of sacred history into one building:...
Basilica of Notre-Dame de la Daurade
Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France
Before it was a church, this site held a temple to Apollo. The golden mosaics that covered its early Christian walls gave it the name Daurade—from the Latin for 'gilded.'...
Basilica of Notre-Dame du Port
Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Built from the dark volcanic stone of Auvergne, Notre-Dame du Port stands among the finest Romanesque churches in France—one of ten major examples within thirty kilometers....
Basilica of Our Lady of Deliverance, Douvries-la-Delivrande
Douvres-la-Délivrande, Calvados, France
For over two thousand years, this ground has been sacred—first to a Celtic mother goddess, then to the Virgin Mary....