Physical form
Christian worship place
518 sacred places classified as christian worship place in Pilgrim Map. This form sits within built sacred place.
Orthodox Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos
Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The largest Serbian Orthodox cathedral in Sarajevo rises five-domed above a city defined by the coexistence of minarets, bell towers, and synagogues....
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,...
Krastova Gora Church, Borovo, Bulgaria
Borovo / Laki, Plovdiv Province, Bulgaria
No description available yet.
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....
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...
Our Lady of the Cape Shrine
Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
Our Lady of the Cape Shrine is a living national Marian shrine with an old chapel, basilica, gardens, and pilgrimage paths in Trois-Rivières, Canada....
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
Stará Boleslav, Stará Boleslav, Central Bohemian Region, Czechia
Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Stará Boleslav is a documented church in Stará Boleslav, Central Bohemian Region, Czechia, connected with Roman Catholic...
Church of the Name of the Virgin Mary, Křtiny, Czech Republic
Křtiny, Křtiny, South Moravian Region, Czechia
Pilgrimage Church of the Name of the Virgin Mary, Křtiny is a documented church in Křtiny, South Moravian Region, Czechia, connected with Roman Catholic Christianity....
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...
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, Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland
Turku Cathedral is a documented cathedral in Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland, connected with Lutheran Christianity....
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....
Basilica of Our Lady of Marceille
Limoux, Aude, France
On a hilltop outside Limoux, a Gothic basilica guards one of France's most poignant Black Madonnas....
Basilica of Saint Martin, Tours
Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
A Neo-Byzantine basilica raised over the crypt of Saint Martin of Tours, whose act of cutting his cloak in half for a freezing beggar became the founding image of Western...
Basilica of Sainte-Therese of Lisieux
Lisieux, Calvados, France
The Basilica of Sainte-Thérèse is an active Catholic pilgrimage church in Lisieux, built to receive those drawn by Saint Thérèse's life and spirituality....
Basilica of Saints Nazarius and Celsus
Part of Carcassonne
Carcassonne, Aude, France
Within the fortified citadel of Carcassonne stands a basilica blessed by a pope who preached the Crusades....
Basilique Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais
Avranches, Avranches, Normandie (Manche), France
Its inclusion on Chemins du Mont-Saint-Michel (Chemin de Rouen) is supported by the reviewed route, religious, material history, and structured-documented entity...
Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Saint-Maximin
Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (Var), France
The Gothic basilica at Saint-Maximin houses relics venerated as Mary Magdalene’s in its crypt. The church and the relic are related subjects within one visit.
Bourges Cathedral
Bourges, Cher, France
Bourges Cathedral rises from one of the earliest Christian communities in Gaul, its five naves flowing without interruption toward the altar....
Cahors Cathedral
Lot, France
Cahors Cathedral rises over the old town of the Lot with two vast Romanesque domes, among the largest of the medieval West....
Cathedral of St. Julian, Le Mans
Le Mans, Sarthe, France
Before Le Mans was a racing city, it was a cathedral city. The Cathedral of Saint Julian possesses some of France's finest medieval stained glass—windows that have...
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen (Rouen Cathedral)
Rouen, Rouen, Normandie (Seine-Maritime), France
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen (Rouen Cathedral) is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Rouen, Rouen, Normandie (Seine-Maritime), France, not as a route label...
Cathédrale Notre-Dame-du-Puy
Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, France
On Mont Anis, where a sick woman once lay upon a dolmen and was healed by the Virgin's grace, one of Europe's oldest Marian sanctuaries rises in Romanesque splendor....
Cathédrale Saint-Lazare d'Autun
Autun, Saône-et-Loire, France
Built between 1120 and 1146 to shelter the relics of Lazarus of Bethany, Autun Cathedral carries one of the most concentrated programmes of Romanesque sculpture in Europe....
Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
Paris, Paris, France
The Chapelle Notre-Dame de la Médaille Miraculeuse stands at 140 rue du Bac in Paris, inside the motherhouse of the Daughters of Charity....
Chapel of Rochegude
Haute-Loire, France
Perched at around 960 metres above the Allier gorges, the small twelfth-century chapel of Saint-Jacques de Rochegude marks a dramatic threshold on the Via Podiensis, where...
Chapel of Saint-Michel d’Aiguilhe
Haute-Loire, France
Set atop a sheer volcanic spire reached by 268 rock-cut steps, this small Romanesque chapel has drawn worship across millennia, from a prehistoric dolmen to a Roman cult...