Site type guide
Church
Church sacred sites range from everyday worship spaces to pilgrimage destinations shaped by saints, relics, apparitions, architecture, and community memory.
435 church sacred sites. Use the country and tradition filters to narrow in.
Atlas summary
Church sacred sites overview
Church 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 | 435 church sacred sites across the current atlas. |
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| UNESCO heritage | 22 UNESCO-tagged church sites appear in this browse view. |
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Showing 145-192 of 435 sites in this site-type guide
Church of the Virgin of the Poor, Banneux
Sprimont, Liege, Belgium
Banneux is a small woodland Marian shrine in the Ardennes of Wallonia where the Virgin appeared eight times to eleven-year-old Mariette Beco between 15 January and 2 March...
Church of the Visitation of Mary on Sladka Gora
Sladka Gora, Sladka Gora, Šmarje pri Jelšah Municipality / Savinja, Slovenia
Church of the Visitation of Mary on Sladka Gora is a documented church in Sladka Gora, Slovenia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Clonard Monastery
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Clonard Monastery is a nationally or regionally important pilgrimage place in Northern Ireland....
Cocev Kamen
Šopsko Rudare, Šopsko Rudare, Kratovo Municipality, Northeastern North Macedonia, North Macedonia
Cocev Kamen is a documented archaeological site in Šopsko Rudare, North Macedonia, interpreted through ancient ritual and archaeological evidence....
Collégiale Saint-Martin de Candes
Candes-Saint-Martin, Indre-et-Loire, France
A Gothic collegiate church in a Loire Valley village marks the exact spot where Martin of Tours, one of Western Christianity's most venerated saints, died in 397....
Collegiate Church of Saint Peter, La Romieu
Gers, France
The Collegiate Church of Saint-Pierre rises over La Romieu, a Gascon village founded as a sheltered waystation on the road to Santiago....
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....
Convent of Saint Teresa, Ávila
Ávila, Ávila, Spain
A 17th-century Baroque church and convent raised over the room where Teresa of Ávila was born in 1515, now an active Discalced Carmelite site holding her relics in a crypt...
Court Church at Ćipur
Cetinje, Cetinje, Old Royal Capital Cetinje, Montenegro
Court Church at Ćipur is a documented church in Cetinje, Montenegro, held within Eastern Orthodox Christianity....
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....
Cranfield Church, Antrim, Northern Ireland
Antrim and Newtownabbey District, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
On the northern shore of Lough Neagh, Ireland's largest lake, the ruins of Cranfield Church mark the traditional burial place of St Olcan, a disciple of St Patrick....
Darjiu Fortified Church
Darjiu, Harghita, Romania
In the hills of Transylvania, the Darjiu Fortified Church holds stories within stories. Fourteenth-century walls bear 1419 frescoes of St. Ladislaus rescuing a maiden....
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....
Downtown Candlemas Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Pécs, Pécs, Baranya County, Hungary
Downtown Candlemas Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a documented church in Pécs, Hungary, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Dunkeld Cathedral
Dunkeld, Scotland, United Kingdom
Dunkeld Cathedral is a nationally or regionally important cathedral place in Scotland....
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, belongs within Black Protestant Christianity....
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....
Eglise Notre-Dame de Pontoise
Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France
Église Notre-Dame de Pontoise has drawn pilgrims since the thirteenth century, when word spread of a Virgin who could grant stillborn babies a moment of life for baptism....
Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Mer, Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Notre-Dame-de-la-Mer in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer is a fortified Romanesque church on the Camargue coast holding the relics of Mary Jacobe and Mary Salome, and, in its dark...
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Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, Martigues
Martigues, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine stands in Martigues' canal-threaded Île quarter, a 17th-century Baroque parish church dedicated to Mary Magdalene and a waypoint on the...
Ejmiatsin Armenian Church, Tbilisi
Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia
Ejmiatsin Armenian Church, Tbilisi is a church in Tbilisi, Tbilisi. For Ejmiatsin Armenian Church, Tbilisi, the reviewed sources place it within Armenian Apostolic...
Esquipulas
Esquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala
The Basilica of the Black Christ stands in a green Guatemalan valley near the Honduran border, holding a small dark wooden Christ carved by Quirio Cataño in 1594....
Ex-Collegiate Church of Santa María del Manzano
Castrojeriz, Burgos, Spain
Beneath Castrojeriz's hilltop castle, this ex-collegiate church holds a 13th-century Gothic Virgin whose name recalls a founding legend of discovery in an apple tree....
Fortingall Yew Tree and Church, Perthshire, Scotland
Fortingall, Scotland, United Kingdom
In a small churchyard at the mouth of Scotland's longest glen stands a yew tree that may have been ancient when the pyramids were young....
Gates of Dawn, Vilniaus
Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania
Of the nine gates that once guarded Vilnius, only one survives. The Gates of Dawn stands because the miraculous icon of Our Lady of Mercy in its chapel above made...
Gergeti Trinity Church
Stepantsminda, Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Georgia
At Stepantsminda, Gergeti Trinity Church marks a church documented in relation to Georgian Orthodox Christianity....
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...
Gremi Church of the Archangels
Gremi, Kakheti, Georgia
In Gremi, Gremi Church of the Archangels belongs to the documented landscape of Georgian Orthodox Christianity....
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 Hill National Shrine of Mary
Hubertus, Wisconsin, United States
Holy Hill National Shrine of Mary in Hubertus, Wisconsin, belongs within Roman Catholic Christianity....
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....
Holy Saviour Church of Gyumri
Gyumri, Shirak, Armenia
Holy Saviour Church of Gyumri is a documented church in Gyumri, Shirak, Armenia, connected with Armenian Apostolic Christianity....
Holy Trinity Church, Yerevan
Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia
Holy Trinity Church, Yerevan is a documented church in Yerevan, Armenia, connected with Armenian Apostolic Christianity....
Ienashi Church of the Prophet Jonah
Latali, Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Georgia
Within Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Ienashi Church of the Prophet Jonah is recorded as a church connected to Georgian Orthodox 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....
Iglesia de San Pedro (Gijón)
Gijón, Gijón, Asturias, Spain
Iglesia de San Pedro (Gijón) is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Gijón, Gijón, Asturias, Spain, not as a route label or nearby point of interest....
Iglesia de San Pedro de la Rúa, Estella
Estella, Estella, Navarra, Spain
Iglesia de San Pedro de la Rúa, Estella is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Estella, Estella, Navarra, Spain, not as a route label or nearby point of...
Iglesia de San Tirso, Sahagún
Sahagún, Sahagún, Castilla y León (León), Spain
Iglesia de San Tirso, Sahagún is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Sahagún, Sahagún, Castilla y León (León), Spain, not as a route label or nearby point of...
Iglesia de Santa María del Camino, Carrión de los Condes
Carrión de los Condes, Carrión de los Condes, Castilla y León (Palencia), Spain
Google Places, Wikidata, the supplied encyclopedic record, and a rights-cleared exact-subject image converge on the same place....
Iglesia de Santa María del Juncal
Irún, Irún, Basque Country (Gipuzkoa), Spain
Iglesia de Santa María del Juncal is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Irún, Irún, Basque Country (Gipuzkoa), Spain, not as a route label or nearby point of...
Iglesia de Santiago el Real, Logroño
Logroño, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain
Its inclusion on Camino Francés (French Way) is supported by the reviewed route, religious, built legacy, and structured-exact entity documented references....
Iglesia de Santo Domingo & Korikancha
Cusco, Cusco, Peru
At the heart of Cusco, the foundations of the Inca Empire's holiest temple rise beneath a Spanish colonial church....
Iglesia del Crucifijo, Puente la Reina
Puente la Reina, Puente la Reina, Navarra, Spain
Google Places, Wikidata, the supplied encyclopedic record, and a rights-cleared exact-subject image converge on the same place....
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Key questions
Church sacred-site questions
- What church sacred sites are included?
- Church sacred sites are places where this site type carries religious, ritual, cultural, or pilgrimage significance. This guide lists 435 in the current Pilgrim Map atlas.
- Where are these church sites located?
- Major country clusters include United Kingdom, United States, France, Georgia, Armenia, Spain.
- Which traditions are represented?
- Traditions represented here include Christianity, Roman Catholic Christianity, Anglican or historic Western Christian tradition, Armenian Apostolic Christianity, Georgian Orthodox Christianity, Roman Catholic Christianity and California Indigenous histories.
- Can I view church 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.