Physical form
Christian worship place
518 sacred places classified as christian worship place in Pilgrim Map. This form sits within built sacred place.
Cathedral of Syracuse
Syracuse (Siracusa), Syracuse, Italy
In the heart of Syracuse, Doric columns from a fifth-century BC Greek temple rise within the walls of a Baroque cathedral....
Chiesa di Nostra Signora di Tergu
Zelgu/Tergu, Sassari, Italy
In the Sardinian countryside south of Castelsardo, a church of wine-red trachyte and white limestone has stood for nearly a thousand years....
Church of the Holy Trinity Saccargia (Basilica della Santissima Trinita de Saccargia)
Codronzanu/Codrongianos, Sassari, Italy
The Basilica della Santissima Trinità di Saccargia rises from the pastoral Sardinian countryside in dramatic stripes of black basalt and white limestone....
Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Assunta, San Gimignano
San Gimignano, Siena, Italy
San Gimignano's Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Assunta is the town's principal active Catholic church and a sacred landmark on the Via Francigena....
Concattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, Sutri
Sutri, Sutri, Lazio, Italy
The record concerns a living church and pilgrimage site within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Fidenza Cathedral
Fidenza, Parma, Italy
Fidenza Cathedral is the active Catholic shrine and cathedral of Saint Domninus on the Via Francigena....
Ivrea Cathedral
Ivrea, Turin, Italy
Ivrea Cathedral is the active Catholic seat of the Diocese of Ivrea and a sacred landmark in a Via Francigena city....
Lucca Cathedral (Duomo di San Martino)
Lucca, Lucca, Italy
Lucca Cathedral, dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours, is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Lucca and a major stop within the Italian Via Francigena landscape....
Piacenza Cathedral
Piacenza, Piacenza, Italy
Piacenza Cathedral is the active Catholic church of Santa Maria Assunta and Santa Giustina in a historic Via Francigena city....
San Nicola in Carcere, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
San Nicola in Carcere preserves Rome's sacred stratigraphy in visible form. A medieval church literally incorporates the columns and foundations of three Roman Republican...
Siena Cathedral
Siena, Siena, Italy
Siena Cathedral is the active Catholic cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta and a principal sacred stop on the city's Via Francigena route....
Turin Cathedral
Turin, Turin, Italy
Turin Cathedral is an active metropolitan church dedicated to Saint John the Baptist....
Viterbo Cathedral
Viterbo, Viterbo, Italy
Viterbo Cathedral is the active Catholic cathedral of Saint Lawrence beside the city's papal palace and on the Via Francigena approach to Rome....
Egami Church
Goto, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Egami Church, stands in Goto. At Egami Church, Roman Catholicism guides custody. Prayer at Egami Church addresses Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary within Catholic....
Holy Resurrection Cathedral (Nikolai-do)
Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan
Holy Resurrection Cathedral (Nikolai-do) (東京復活大聖堂) is an active Japanese Orthodox Christianity sacred place in Tokyo....
Oura Cathedral
Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Oura Cathedral, stands in Nagasaki. At Oura Cathedral, Roman Catholicism guides custody....
St. Ignatius Catholic Church
Kōjimachi, Tokyo, Japan
St. Ignatius Catholic Church (カトリック麹町 聖イグナチオ教会) is an active Roman Catholic Christianity sacred place in Tokyo....
St. Mary's Cathedral, Tokyo
Bunkyo City, Tokyo, Japan
St. Mary's Cathedral, Tokyo (東京カテドラル聖マリア大聖堂) is an active Roman Catholic Christianity sacred place in Tokyo....
Urakami Cathedral
Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Urakami Cathedral, stands in Nagasaki. At Urakami Cathedral, Roman Catholicism guides custody....
Ascension Cathedral of Almaty
Almaty, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Ascension Cathedral of Almaty is a documented cathedral in Almaty, Kazakhstan, connected with Regional religious heritage....
Holy Trinity Cathedral Karakol
Karakol, Issyk-Kul Region, Kyrgyzstan
Holy Trinity Cathedral Karakol is a documented cathedral in Karakol, Issyk-Kul Region, Kyrgyzstan, connected with Regional religious heritage....
Resurrection Cathedral Bishkek
Bishkek, Bishkek City, Kyrgyzstan
Resurrection Cathedral Bishkek is a documented cathedral in Bishkek, Bishkek City, Kyrgyzstan, connected with Regional religious heritage....
Aglona
Aglonas pagasts, Preiļi, Latvia
In the lakeland of southeastern Latvia, the white twin-towered Baroque basilica of Aglona is the spiritual heart of Catholic Latvia and its foremost Marian pilgrimage...
Church of Our Miraculous Lady, Sarkani
Lendžu pagasts, Rēzekne Municipality, Latvia
In a quiet rural parish near Rezekne in eastern Latvia, Sarkani Church holds a painting of the Virgin Mary long revered as miraculous and credited with healing grace....
Church of Pasiene
Pasienes pagasts, Ludza, Latvia
In far-eastern Latgale, near the Russian frontier, the Church of St Dominic at Pasiene stands as one of the finest late-Baroque sacred buildings in the region....
Ikšķile Church, St Meinhard’s Island, Ikskile
Ikšķile, Ogre, Latvia
On a small island in the Daugava reservoir southeast of Riga stand the conserved ruins of the oldest stone church in Latvia, raised under Bishop Meinhard around 1184....
Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Siluva
Šiluva, Raseiniai, Lithuania
The Basilica of the Nativity holds the crowned miraculous painting of Our Lady of Šiluva — called 'Lithuania's greatest treasure.' Brought from Rome in 1457, lost during...
Christ’s Resurrection Church, Kaunas
Kaunas, Kauno apskritis, Lietuva
No description available yet.
Church of St. Stanislaus, Berzoras
Beržoras, Plungė, Lithuania
Between two lakes in Žemaitija National Park stands one of Lithuania's oldest wooden churches, built where a miraculous painting of the Virgin Mary repeatedly returned to...
Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Alksnenai
Stirnėnai, Vilkaviškis, Lithuania
In the Suvalkija countryside, the wooden Church of the Assumption in Alksnėnai shelters a miraculous crowned statue of the Virgin Mary and a collection of 18th-century...
Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Pivasiunai
Pivašiūnai, Alytus District Municipality, Lithuania
Perched on a hill surrounded by ancient pines and birches, the Church of the Assumption in Pivašiūnai shelters a miraculous 17th-century painting crowned with papal crowns...
Church of the Virgin Mary Victorious, Kazokiskes
Kazokiškės, Elektrėnai, Lithuania
In the quiet Lithuanian countryside southeast of Vilnius, a late Baroque church holds a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary Victorious that has drawn pilgrims since the...
Church of Žemaičių Kalvarija, Lithuania
Žemaičių Kalvarija, Telšių apskritis, Lietuva
No description available yet.
Kaunas Cathedral Basilica, Lithuania
Kaunas, Kaunas, Lithuania
Founded by Grand Duke Vytautas the Great in the early fifteenth century, Kaunas Cathedral Basilica is the largest Gothic church in Lithuania and the seat of the Archbishop...
Keturnaujiena Divine Mercy Chapel, Suodžiai
Suodžiai, Šakiai, Lithuania
In 1969, a Lithuanian dairy worker named Anele Matijosaitiene reported an apparition of Jesus Christ resembling the Divine Mercy image....
Church of St Jean du Grund (Black Madonna of Grund)
Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Nestled in the ancient Grund valley beneath Luxembourg's fortress walls, the Church of St Jean du Grund houses one of Europe's most evocative Black Madonnas....
Basilica of Esztergom, Hungary
Esztergom, Komárom-Esztergom, Hungary
Atop Castle Hill above the Danube stands Hungary's largest church, the Primatial Basilica of Esztergom....
Basilica of the Virgin Mary, Matraverebely Szentkut, Hungary
Mátraverebély, Nógrád, Hungary
Szentkút — 'Holy Well' — is Hungary's foremost national Marian shrine, set in a wooded valley between the Cserhát and Mátra hills....
Budapest, Our Lady of Remete
Budapest, Budapest, Magyarország
No description available yet.
Mariagyud Basilica, Hungary
Siklós, Dél-Dunántúl, Magyarország
No description available yet.
Mariapocs, Basilica of our Lady of Mariapocs
Máriapócs, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, Hungary
In a small town on the Great Plain stands the Greek Catholic basilica of Máriapócs, dedicated to St Michael the Archangel and famed for an icon of the Mother of God that...
Matraverebely, Basilica of our Lady of Great Bliss
Mátraverebély, Észak-Magyarország, Magyarország
No description available yet.
Cathedral of the Assumption
Victoria, Malta
The Cathedral of the Assumption crowns the ancient citadel of Victoria, the capital of Gozo, on a hilltop that has been consecrated ground since long before the word...
Basilica of Nuestra Señora de la Salud, Patzcuaro
Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico
Don Vasco de Quiroga dreamed of utopia in the New World. In 1540, on a hill where Purepecha priests had performed ceremonies, he began building what would become...
Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
The world's most-visited Catholic pilgrimage site rises at Tepeyac Hill in Mexico City, where the Virgin Mary appeared to an Aztec peasant in 1531....
Basilica of Our Lady of Ocotlan
Otatitlán, Tlaxcala, Mexico
In 1541, as smallpox killed ninety percent of Tlaxcala's population, a young indigenous convert named Juan Diego Bernardino encountered the Virgin in a pine grove....
Basilica of Our Lady of Remedies, Naucalpan de Juarez
Naucalpan de Juárez, Mexico, Mexico
On the night of La Noche Triste in 1520, when Cortes's forces fled Tenochtitlan in defeat, a soldier named Villafuerte concealed a 27-centimeter Virgin among the magueys...
Basilica of Our Lady of Zapopan, Guadalajara
Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
On October 12, more than three million people accompany a 34-centimeter corn paste statue through the streets of Guadalajara....
Catedral de Chihuahua (Cathedral of Chihuahua)
Chihuahua (city), Chihuahua (city), Chihuahua, Mexico
Google Places, Wikidata, the supplied encyclopedic record, and a rights-cleared exact-subject image converge on the same place....
Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral
Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral is the active seat of the Archbishop of Mexico and a church dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary....
Misión de Guadalupe de los Mansos
Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Misión de Guadalupe de los Mansos is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, not as a route label or nearby point...
Church of Guadalupe, San Cristobal
San Cristóbal, Chiapas, Mexico
Rising above San Cristobal de las Casas on Cerro de Guadalupe, this 19th-century church draws devotees who climb its 79 stone steps to honor Mexico's most beloved sacred...
Church of the Black Christ, Otatitlan
Veracruz, México
No description available yet.
Malverde Chapel, Sinaloa, Mexico
Culiacán Rosales, Sinaloa, México
No description available yet.
Kapel in 't Zand Church, Roermond, Netherlands
Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands
Rising from the sandy lowlands outside Roermond, the Kapel in 't Zand has drawn pilgrims to venerate Our Lady in the Sand since 1418....
St. John's Basilica, Laren
Laren, Noord-Holland, Nederland
No description available yet.
Basilica of Saint Servatius, Maastricht
Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
The basilica is the supported identity behind an imported “Black Madonna of St. Servatius” record that conflated separate Maastricht devotions....
Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, El Viejo
El Viejo, Chinandega, Nicaragua
No description available yet.
Mære Church Site
Steinkjer, Trøndelag, Norway
Beneath the white-plastered walls of a Romanesque parish church in central Norway, postholes still hold gold offerings to gods that Christianity displaced....
Nidaros Cathedral
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
At the northern reach of medieval Christendom, a Gothic cathedral rises over the burial site of St....