Site type guide
Chapel
Chapel sites reveal how different traditions shape sacred space through architecture, landscape, ritual, and memory.
33 chapel sacred sites. Use the country and tradition filters to narrow in.
Atlas summary
Chapel sacred sites overview
Chapel 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.
| Coverage | 33 chapel sacred sites across the current atlas. |
|---|---|
| Major countries | |
| Traditions |
Refine the atlas
Related chapel guides
All sites
33
Showing 1-33 of 33 sites in this site-type guide
Anta-Capela de Nossa Senhora do Livramento
Montemor-o-Novo, Évora, Portugal
Beside a rural road in the Alentejo, five granite pillars nearly three meters tall support a roof that is not their own....
Brough of Deerness Chapel
Deerness, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the eastern tip of Orkney's Mainland, a grass-topped promontory rises from the North Sea, connected to the land by a narrow neck of eroded rock....
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 and wellspring of St. Adalbert
Bylany, Central Bohemian, Czechia
In open fields between two Czech villages, a small 19th-century chapel shelters a spring that has flowed since before memory. Dedicated to St....
Chapel of Grace (Gnadenkapelle), Altötting
Altötting, Bavaria, Germany
At the centre of Altötting's broad Kapellplatz stands the Gnadenkapelle, the Chapel of Grace....
Chapel of Our Lady of the Crag, Knaresborough, England
Knaresborough, England, United Kingdom
Hewn from sandstone cliffs above the River Nidd in 1408, the Chapel of Our Lady of the Crag stands as one of Britain's oldest wayside shrines....
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 Mary Magdalene
Haute-Loire, France
Above Monistrol-d'Allier, a neoclassical facade seals a basalt rock cavity to form a troglodyte chapel dedicated to Mary Magdalene, the saint of grottoes and penitence....
Chapel of Saint-Salvayre
Alet-les-Bains, Aude, France
At the end of a rutted road climbing from Alet-les-Bains, a small chapel sits at the edge of sky and mountain....
Chapel of the Apparition — Holy Sepulchre
Old City, Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel
Tucked into the north transept of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Chapel of the Apparition is small but theologically immense....
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....
Chapelle de Picpus in Paris
Paris, Paris, France
In a quiet corner of eastern Paris lies Picpus, where 1,306 victims of the Revolution's final weeks lie in mass graves....
Chapelle du Saint-Pilon
Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume, Var, France
At 994 meters atop the Sainte-Baume massif, a small stone chapel marks the legendary spot where angels lifted Mary Magdalene seven times daily for divine sustenance....
Chapelle Notre-Dame de Bonne Délivrance
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
In a quiet Neuilly street stands the chapel of the Sisters of Saint Thomas of Villeneuve, guardians of the Black Madonna of Paris....
Eastbridge Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr
Canterbury, England, United Kingdom
Eastbridge Hospital has stood on Canterbury's High Street since around 1180, built to receive exhausted pilgrims arriving to venerate Thomas Becket....
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....
Mission San Francisco Solano
Sonoma, California, United States
Mission San Francisco Solano is a preserved mission complex and public-history site in Sonoma, United States....
Mont Ventoux
Vaucluse, France
Rising alone above the Provençal landscape, the bare white summit of Mont Ventoux has been held sacred for three millennia — a deity to the Celto-Ligurians, crowned with...
Royal Chapel of Granada
Granada, Granada, Spain
Built 1505-1517 by royal charter as the dynastic mausoleum of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, the Royal Chapel is both an active Catholic church and a...
Sacro Monte di Belmonte
Valperga, Turin, Italy
Belmonte holds two devotional histories at once: a Marian sanctuary first documented in 1197, and a Via Crucis chapel complex begun in 1712 by the Franciscan friar...
Sacro Monte di Crea
Serralunga di Crea, Alessandria, Italy
Sacro Monte di Crea crowns the highest hill of the Basso Monferrato with twenty-three chapels and five hermitages built from 1589 around a Marian shrine already centuries...
Sacro Monte di Domodossola
Domodossola, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Italy
Sacro Monte Calvario di Domodossola stages the Passion of Christ across fifteen chapels ascending Mattarella hill, built from 1656 by two Capuchin friars as a local...
Sacro Monte di Ghiffa
Ghiffa, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Italy
Sacro Monte di Ghiffa is the smallest and most unfinished of the nine Sacri Monti, a Counter-Reformation sanctuary raised over a medieval oratory and dedicated, unusually,...
Sacro Monte di Ossuccio
Ossuccio, Como, Italy
Fourteen Baroque chapels climb a wooded crag some 200 meters above Lake Como to the Sanctuary of the Beata Vergine del Soccorso, built between roughly 1635 and 1710 as a...
Sacro Monte di Varese
Varese, Varese, Italy
A two-kilometer cobbled path called the Via Sacra rises from the edge of Varese through fourteen Baroque chapels, each holding a sculpted and frescoed scene from a Mystery...
San Elizario Presidio Chapel
San Elizario, San Elizario, Texas, United States
Its inclusion on El Paso Mission Trail is supported by the reviewed route, religious, preserved material, and structured-named place consulted evidence....
St Catherine's Hill and Chapel
Guildford, England, United Kingdom
St Catherine's Hill rises from the Surrey sandstone above Guildford, its roofless 14th-century chapel marking the Pilgrim's Way south of the River Wey....
St Christopher's Chapel, Boughton Lees
Boughton Lees, England, United Kingdom
St Christopher's Chapel stands on the Pilgrims' Way in the Kent village of Boughton Lees — a converted medieval hall house dedicated to the patron saint of travellers....
St Margaret's Chapel
Glastonbury, England, United Kingdom
Behind a passageway on Magdalene Street, a small chapel and garden offer what Glastonbury's busier sites cannot: genuine quiet....
Warkworth Hermitage
Warkworth, Warkworth, Northumberland, United Kingdom
This entry concerns Warkworth Hermitage, the rock-cut chapel and dwelling, not the secular castle across the river....
Watts Cemetery Chapel
Compton, England, United Kingdom
Designed by Mary Watts and built by 74 Compton villagers between 1895 and 1904, this Grade I listed mortuary chapel layers Celtic, Egyptian, Byzantine, and Christian...
Key questions
Chapel sacred-site questions
- What chapel sacred sites are included?
- Chapel sacred sites are places where this site type carries religious, ritual, cultural, or pilgrimage significance. This guide lists 33 in the current Pilgrim Map atlas.
- Where are these chapel sites located?
- Major country clusters include France, United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal, United States, Czechia.
- Which traditions are represented?
- Traditions represented here include Christianity, Historic Latin Christianity, Multi-faith, Roman Catholic Christianity and California Indigenous histories, Roman Catholic Christianity within Indigenous and Hispanic borderlands histories.
- Can I view chapel 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.