Physical form
Built sacred place
672 sacred places classified as built sacred place in Pilgrim Map. This category includes related, more specific forms.
Shrine of Our Lady of Candelaria
Puno, Puno, Peru
Each February, the shores of Lake Titicaca transform. The Fiesta de la Virgen de la Candelaria draws 50,000 dancers and 15,000 musicians to Puno in a celebration UNESCO...
Lima, Iglesia Las Nazarenas
Lima, Lima, Perú
No description available yet.
Antipolo Cathedral, Luzon
Antipolo, Rizal, Philippines
No description available yet.
Bantay Church (St. Augustine Church)
Bantay, Bantay, Ilocos Sur, Philippines
Its inclusion on Visita Iglesia Seven Ilocos Churches is supported by the reviewed route, religious, cultural inheritance, and structured-entity resolution research...
Basilica Menor of Our Lady of Piat, Luzon
Cagayan, Philippines
No description available yet.
Ermita Shrine, Manila, Luzon
Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
No description available yet.
Immaculate Conception Church of La Purisima, Bulacan, Luzon
Santa Maria, Bulacan, Philippines
No description available yet.
Laoag Cathedral (St. William's Cathedral)
Laoag City, Laoag City, Ilocos Norte, Philippines
Google Places, Wikidata, the supplied encyclopedic record, and a rights-cleared exact-subject image converge on the same place....
Malolos Cathedral, Bulacan, Luzon
Malolos, Bulacan, Philippines
No description available yet.
Peñafrancia Basilica
Naga City, Camarines Sur, Philippines
Rising in Naga City at the heart of the Bicol region, Peñafrancia Basilica enshrines the miraculous image of Our Lady of Peñafrancia, lovingly called Ina (Mother) by...
San Agustin Church
Intramuros, Manila, Intramuros, Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
Google Places, Wikidata, the supplied encyclopedic record, and a rights-cleared exact-subject image converge on the same place....
Vigan Cathedral (St. Paul Metropolitan Cathedral)
Vigan City, Vigan City, Ilocos Sur, Philippines
Vigan Cathedral (St. Paul Metropolitan Cathedral) is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Vigan City, Vigan City, Ilocos Sur, Philippines, not as a route label...
Basilica da Estrela
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Queen Maria I vowed in 1760 to build a church if granted a son to secure the throne....
Braga Cathedral
Braga, Braga, Portugal
Consecrated in 1089, Braga Cathedral is Portugal's oldest cathedral and the seat of the country's Archbishop-Primate....
Capela das Almas
Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Before Viana do Castelo had a cathedral, it had this modest riverside chapel — its first mother church, built on Romanesque foundations that excavation suggests may reach...
Capela de São Roque e São Tiago Maior
Póvoa de Varzim, Porto, Portugal
Built in 1582 as a plea for protection against plague, this small chapel on Póvoa de Varzim's main square changed character when a statue of Saint James — found on the...
Chapel of the Apparitions (Our Lady of Fátima)
Part of Fatima
Fátima, Santarém, Portugal
The Chapel of the Apparitions stands at the precise location where the Virgin Mary appeared to three Portuguese shepherd children in 1917....
Church of Bom Jesus da Cruz
Barcelos, Braga, Portugal
In December 1504, a black cross reportedly appeared in the earth of Barcelos's fairground, spreading until it formed a shape that, according to local memory, no shovel...
Church of Nossa Senhora da Agonia
Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Built to house an image installed in 1674, the Church of Nossa Senhora da Agonia grew from a small chapel dedicated to fishermen's fear of shipwreck into the anchor of one...
Church of Saint Anthony of Lisbon
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Beside Lisbon's cathedral, this Baroque-Rococo church stands where centuries of local and ecclesiastical tradition place the 1195 birth of Fernando de Bulhões — later...
Church of Santa Maria de Marvila
Santarém, Santarém, Portugal
Behind a restrained Manueline doorway in Santarém's old town, Santa Maria de Marvila hides an interior almost entirely resurfaced in seventeenth-century azulejo tile — a...
Church of Santa Maria do Olival
Tomar, Santarém, Portugal
Founded by Gualdim Pais, the Templar master who established Tomar itself, Santa Maria do Olival served as the Order's spiritual seat and burial pantheon in Portugal....
Church of Santa Maria Madalena da Falperra
Braga, Braga, Portugal
On a ridge above Braga, a granite Baroque facade rises where a medieval chapel once stood — rebuilt after the 1755 earthquake into one of André Soares's most celebrated...
Church of São Bento da Vitória
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Built from 1604 by the Portuguese Benedictine Congregation on the site of Porto's former Jewish quarter, São Bento da Vitória remains a consecrated church known for its...
Church of São João Baptista, Tomar
Tomar, Santarém, Portugal
Facing the statue of the Templar founder of Tomar across the Praça da República, the Church of São João Baptista has served as the town's Igreja Matriz since the fifteenth...
Church of São Pedro de Rates
Póvoa de Varzim, Porto, Portugal
São Pedro de Rates marks the point where the Coastal and Central routes of the Camino Português converge before continuing toward Barcelos and Santiago de Compostela....
Church of São Roque
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Founded in 1506 as a plague-relief shrine and built from 1553 as the first Jesuit church in the Portuguese world, São Roque hides its Baroque wealth behind a deliberately...
Church of the Holy Miracle of Santarém
Santarém, Santarém, Portugal
In the historic center of Santarém, a small Gothic-to-Renaissance church — now the Santuário do Santíssimo Milagre, formerly the parish church of Santo Estêvão — houses a...
Coimbra New Cathedral
Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Built in the late 16th and 17th centuries as the church of a Jesuit college training missionaries for Portugal's colonial territories, this building became the seat of the...
Coimbra Old Cathedral
Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
The Sé Velha is the only Portuguese Romanesque cathedral from the Reconquista era to survive largely intact....
Évora Cathedral
Évora, Évora, Portugal
A granite fortress-church raised after the 1166 reconquest of Évora, the Sé has served as the seat of its archdiocese for more than eight centuries....
Faro Cathedral
Faro, Faro, Portugal
Faro Cathedral stands on ground used for worship across more than two millennia — a Roman temple, an early Christian basilica, a mosque during Moorish rule, and since the...
Guarda Cathedral
Guarda, Guarda, Portugal
Guarda Cathedral rose over roughly a century and a half, beginning in 1390, on the site of the diocesan seat transferred here in 1199 when King Sancho I founded Guarda as...
Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Pópulo, Caldas da Rainha
Caldas da Rainha, Leiria, Portugal
No description available yet.
Igreja de Santiago de Palmela
Palmela, Setúbal, Portugal
Built from 1443 as the conventual church and headquarters of the Order of Santiago de Espada inside Palmela Castle, this austere late-Gothic building served the Portuguese...
Igreja de São Vicente de Fora
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Founded around 1147 on the ground where crusader forces camped during the siege that took Lisbon from Moorish rule, São Vicente de Fora holds the relics of the city's...
Igreja Matriz de Caminha
Caminha, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Built between 1488 and 1556 behind Caminha's medieval walls, this granite parish church combines a fortress-like Gothic exterior with an intricately carved Mudéjar ceiling...
Lamego Cathedral
Lamego, Viseu, Portugal
Lamego Cathedral layers a Romanesque south tower, a Manueline triple-portico front, a 1524 Mannerist cloister, and an eighteenth-century Baroque interior painted by...
Lisbon Cathedral
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Since 1147, this fortress-faced cathedral above the Tagus has held the daily rhythm of Mass, sacrament, and civic devotion as the seat of the Patriarchate of Lisbon....
Matriz Church of Ponte de Lima
Ponte de Lima, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Ponte de Lima's matriz church stands on the site of a 12th-13th century Romanesque predecessor that, by the town's own 1444 testimony, had grown too small for its...
National Pantheon, Church of Santa Engrácia
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Begun in 1681 to house the relics of a virgin martyr, the Church of Santa Engrácia took nearly three centuries to complete — so long that Lisbon still calls any endless...
Porto Cathedral
Porto, Porto, Portugal
The Sé do Porto has held the seat of the Bishop of Porto for nine centuries, its thick Romanesque walls and twin towers built as much for defense as for devotion....
Viseu Cathedral
Viseu, Viseu, Portugal
Viseu Cathedral rises on the site of an Early Christian basilica destroyed under Moorish rule and rebuilt after the 1058 reconquest....
Basilica of Our Lady of Altagracia, Higuey
Higüey, La Altagracia, República Dominicana
No description available yet.
Santuario Nacional Santo Cristo de los Milagros,Bayaguana
Bayaguana, Monte Plata, República Dominicana
No description available yet.
Leud Hill Church, Romania
Ieud, Maramureș, Romania
Ieud Hill Church rises from a prominent hilltop in Maramures, northwestern Romania, its wooden silhouette visible across the valley....
Maxton Kirk (Maxton Parish Church)
Maxton, Maxton, Scottish Borders, United Kingdom
Maxton Kirk (Maxton Parish Church) is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Maxton, Maxton, Scottish Borders, Scotland, not as a route label or nearby point of...
Basilica of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Marian Hill in Levoča, Slovakia
Levoča, Prešov, Slovakia
Each July, over half a million pilgrims climb Marianska Hora to the Basilica of the Visitation outside Levoca, Slovakia....
Marianka Pilgrimage Shrine
Marianka, Marianka, Bratislava Region, Slovakia
Marianka Pilgrimage Shrine is a documented shrine in Marianka, Slovakia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Church of the Apparition of Mary at Strunjan
Strunjan, Strunjan, Piran Municipality / Coastal-Karst, Slovenia
Church of the Apparition of Mary at Strunjan is a documented church in Strunjan, Slovenia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Lutina, Basilica of the Assumption of Mary
Ľutina, Prešovský kraj, Slovensko
No description available yet.
Bongamsa Temple, Mungyeong
Mungyeong, Mungyeong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea
Access is restricted: Bongamsa is normally closed to visitors and, according to Mungyeong's official information, opens to the public only on Buddha's Birthday....
Bongnimsa Temple Site, Changwon
Changwon, Changwon, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
Bongnimsa Temple Site, Changwon is a protected archaeological temple site with relocated monuments in Changwon, South Korea....
Borimsa Temple, Jangheung
Jangheung, Jangheung, Jeollanam-do, South Korea
Borimsa Temple, Jangheung is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Jangheung, Jangheung, Jeollanam-do, South Korea, not as a route label or nearby point of...
Gulsansa Temple Site, Gangneung
Gangneung, Gangneung, Gangwon-do, South Korea
Gulsansa Temple Site, Gangneung is a protected archaeological temple site within a living agricultural landscape in Gangneung, South Korea....
Jeonju Jeondong Cathedral
Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea
Jeondong Cathedral stands near the place where Paul Yun Ji-chung and James Kwon Sang-yeon were executed in 1791....
Myeongdong Cathedral
Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
Myeongdong Cathedral is not only a Gothic landmark above a shopping district. Its official history locates Korea’s first faith community here in 1784, before the current...
Sajasan Beopheungsa
Yeongwol, Yeongwol, Gangwon-do, South Korea
Sajasan Beopheungsa is a living Korean Buddhist temple with historic monastery remains in Yeongwol, South Korea....
Seongjusa Temple Site, Boryeong
Boryeong, Boryeong, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea
Seongjusa Temple Site, Boryeong is a protected archaeological temple site in Boryeong, South Korea....
Taeansa Temple, Gokseong
Gokseong, Gokseong, Jeollanam-do, South Korea
Its inclusion on Nine Mountain Seon Schools is supported by the reviewed route, religious, heritage record, and structured-resolved subject sources....