Site type guide
Cathedral
Cathedrals concentrate sacred architecture, civic memory, liturgy, pilgrimage, relic traditions, and regional identity into monumental worship spaces.
180 cathedral sacred sites. Use the country and tradition filters to narrow in.
Atlas summary
Cathedral sacred sites overview
Cathedral sacred sites span countries, traditions, pilgrimage routes, and sacred landscapes represented in the Pilgrim Map atlas.
Use this guide to compare major country clusters, represented traditions, UNESCO-tagged places, and the map distribution before opening individual site pages.
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Showing 49-96 of 180 sites in this site-type guide
Chelmsford Cathedral
Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom
Chelmsford Cathedral is a nationally or regionally important cathedral place in England....
Chester Cathedral
Chester, England, United Kingdom
Chester Cathedral stands in England as a major cathedral site. At Chester Cathedral, Anglican or historic Western Christian tradition provides the public sacred context....
Chichester Cathedral
Chichester, England, United Kingdom
Chichester Cathedral belongs among the significant cathedral places of England. The sacred frame at Chichester Cathedral comes from Anglican or historic Western Christian...
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford belongs among the significant cathedral places of England....
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....
Cologne Cathedral
Köln, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Cologne Cathedral rises from the Rhine plain in twin spires that took six centuries to complete....
Concattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, Sutri
Sutri, Sutri, Lazio, Italy
The record concerns a living church and pilgrimage site within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Condom Cathedral
Gers, France
Condom Cathedral, the Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, rises over the Gascon town above the Baïse river....
Coventry Cathedral
Coventry, England, United Kingdom
Coventry Cathedral stands in England as a major cathedral site. At Coventry Cathedral, Anglican or historic Western Christian tradition provides the public sacred context....
Derby Cathedral
Derby, England, United Kingdom
Derby Cathedral is a nationally or regionally important cathedral place in England....
Dornoch Cathedral
Dornoch, Scotland, United Kingdom
Dornoch Cathedral is a nationally or regionally important cathedral place in Scotland....
Down Cathedral
Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Down Cathedral belongs among the significant cathedral places of Northern Ireland....
Downside Abbey
Stratton-on-the-Fosse, England, United Kingdom
Downside Abbey belongs among the significant living Christian places of England....
Dunkeld Cathedral
Dunkeld, Scotland, United Kingdom
Dunkeld Cathedral is a nationally or regionally important cathedral place in Scotland....
Durham Cathedral
Durham, England, United Kingdom
For 120 years, monks fleeing Vikings carried the body of St. Cuthbert across northern England....
Éauze Cathedral
Gers, France
Saint-Luperc, the former cathedral of Éauze, stands on the site of Roman Elusa, a bishop's see since late antiquity....
Ely Cathedral
Ely, England, United Kingdom
Rising from the flat fenlands of East Anglia like a ship on a calm sea, Ely Cathedral has anchored worship on this site since the 7th century....
Etchmiadzin Cathedral
Vagharshapat, Armavir, Armenia
Built in the early 4th century on the site where Gregory the Illuminator saw Christ descend from heaven, Etchmiadzin stands as the spiritual heart of the Armenian...
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....
Exeter Cathedral
Exeter, England, United Kingdom
Rising from foundations that have witnessed Roman soldiers, Saxon monks, and Norman bishops, Exeter Cathedral holds the longest uninterrupted medieval vaulted ceiling in...
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...
Fidenza Cathedral
Fidenza, Parma, Italy
Fidenza Cathedral is the active Catholic shrine and cathedral of Saint Domninus on the Via Francigena....
Glasgow Cathedral
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Glasgow Cathedral belongs among the significant cathedral places of Scotland. The sacred frame at Glasgow Cathedral comes from Anglican or historic Western Christian...
Gloucester Cathedral
Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
When King Edward II was murdered at Berkeley Castle in 1327, other abbeys refused his body....
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...
Guildford Cathedral
Guildford, England, United Kingdom
Guildford Cathedral stands in England as a major cathedral site. At Guildford Cathedral, Anglican or historic Western Christian tradition provides the public sacred...
Hereford Cathedral
Hereford, England, United Kingdom
Hereford Cathedral belongs among the significant cathedral places of England. The sacred frame at Hereford Cathedral comes from Anglican or historic Western Christian...
Hexham Abbey
Hexham, England, United Kingdom
Hexham Abbey belongs among the significant living Christian places of England. The sacred frame at Hexham Abbey comes from Anglican or historic Western Christian tradition....
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....
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....
Jaca Cathedral
Jaca, Huesca, Spain
Begun around 1076 under King Sancho Ramírez, Jaca Cathedral is among the oldest Romanesque cathedrals in Spain and the principal waypoint for pilgrims descending the...
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....
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...
Kumurdo Cathedral
Akhalkalaki, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia
Kumurdo Cathedral is a documented cathedral in Akhalkalaki, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia, connected with Georgian Orthodox Christianity....
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....
Lectoure Cathedral
Gers, France
Lectoure Cathedral, dedicated to the martyr brothers Gervasius and Protasius, crowns a hilltop town in the Gers....
Leicester Cathedral
Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Leicester Cathedral is a nationally or regionally important cathedral place in England....
Leon
León, León, Spain
León Cathedral stands as the purest expression of Gothic light theology in Spain....
Lichfield Cathedral
Lichfield, England, United Kingdom
Lichfield Cathedral is a nationally or regionally important cathedral place in England....
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....
Liverpool Cathedral
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Liverpool Cathedral belongs among the significant cathedral places of England. The sacred frame at Liverpool Cathedral comes from Anglican or historic Western Christian...
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral stands in England as a major cathedral site. At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Roman Catholic Christianity provides the public sacred...
Llandaff Cathedral
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Llandaff Cathedral belongs among the significant cathedral places of Wales. The sacred frame at Llandaff Cathedral comes from Anglican or historic Western Christian...
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....
Manchester Cathedral
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Manchester Cathedral belongs among the significant cathedral places of England. The sacred frame at Manchester Cathedral comes from Anglican or historic Western Christian...
Manglisi Sioni Cathedral
Manglisi, Kvemo Kartli, Georgia
Manglisi Sioni Cathedral is a documented cathedral in Manglisi, Kvemo Kartli, Georgia, connected with Georgian Orthodox Christianity....
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....
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Key questions
Cathedral sacred-site questions
- What cathedral sacred sites are included?
- Cathedral sacred sites are places where this site type carries religious, ritual, cultural, or pilgrimage significance. This guide lists 180 in the current Pilgrim Map atlas.
- Where are these cathedral sites located?
- Major country clusters include United Kingdom, Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Georgia.
- Which traditions are represented?
- Traditions represented here include Christianity, Anglican or historic Western Christian tradition, Roman Catholic Christianity, Georgian Orthodox Christianity, Armenian Apostolic Christianity, Regional religious heritage.
- Can I view cathedral sacred sites on a map?
- Yes. Compare the country and tradition clusters, switch to map view for geography, then use site pages for practical context and related places.