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495 sacred places classified as church in Pilgrim Map. This form sits within christian worship place.

Bom Jesus da Lapa, Santuário do Bom Jesus da Lapa
Christianity

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
UNESCOChristianity

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

Krastova Gora Church, Borovo, Bulgaria

Borovo / Laki, Plovdiv Province, Bulgaria

No description available yet.

Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo
UNESCOBulgarian 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....

Sveta Bogoroditsa Church
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
Roman Catholic Christianity

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
Christianity

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
Roman Catholic Christianity

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
Roman Catholic Christianity

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

Basilica de Andacollo

Andacollo, Región de Coquimbo, Chile

No description available yet.

Caguach, Iglesia Jesús Nazareno

Caguach, Iglesia Jesús Nazareno

Quinchao, Región de Los Lagos, Chile

No description available yet.

Iglesia de La Tirana
Christianity

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
Christianity

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

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
Christianity

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
Christianity

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
Christianity

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
Christianity

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

El Cobre

Santiago de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

No description available yet.

Iglesia del Rincon

Iglesia del Rincon

Boyeros, La Habana, Cuba

No description available yet.

St. Vitus Cathedral
Christianity

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
Christianity

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
Christianity

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
UNESCOChristianity

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

Iglesia de Baños

Baños, Azuay, Ecuador

No description available yet.

Church of Saint George, Cairo
Christianity

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
Christianity

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)
Christianity

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
Roman Catholic Christianity

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)

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
Christianity

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
UNESCOChristianity

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

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

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
Evangelical Lutheran Christianity

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
Lutheran Christianity

Turku Cathedral

Turku, Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland

Turku Cathedral is a documented cathedral in Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland, connected with Lutheran Christianity....

Aire Cathedral
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
Christianity

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
Christianity

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
Christianity

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
Christianity

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
Christianity

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
Christianity

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
Christianity

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
Christianity

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
Roman Catholic Christianity

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
Roman Catholic Christianity

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
UNESCOChristianity

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
Christianity

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
Christianity

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)
Roman Catholic Christianity

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
Christianity

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
Christianity

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 Saint-Michel d’Aiguilhe
Christianity

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...

Chartres Cathedral
UNESCOChristianity

Chartres Cathedral

Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, France

Chartres Cathedral rises from the wheat fields of France as medieval Christianity's most complete surviving statement....

Church of L’Hôpital-Saint-Blaise
Christianity

Church of L’Hôpital-Saint-Blaise

Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France

The sole survivor of a twelfth-century pilgrim hospital, this church on the Béarn–Basque border fuses Romanesque solidity with Hispano-Moorish artistry — pierced stone...

Church of Nasbinals
Christianity

Church of Nasbinals

Lozère, France

On the high plateau of the Aubrac, the Romanesque church of Nasbinals offered pilgrims shelter before the most feared crossing on the Le Puy road....

Church of Notre-Dame, Dijon
Christianity

Church of Notre-Dame, Dijon

Dijon, Côte-d’Or, France

Notre-Dame de Dijon is the church that contains the venerated image of Notre-Dame de Bon-Espoir....

Church of Our Lady of Good Repos
Christianity

Church of Our Lady of Good Repos

Montfavet, Vaucluse, France

In the village of Montfavet, outside Avignon, a Gothic church carries the name its cardinal founder chose in 1341: Notre-Dame de Bon Repos, Our Lady of Good Rest....

Church of Perse
Christianity

Church of Perse

Aveyron, France

On the approach to Espalion, the Romanesque church of Perse was a priory of the great Abbey of Conques, dedicated like its mother house to Sainte-Foy....

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