Shrine

Ak Ishan

Baharden, Ahal, Turkmenistan

In the hills west of Ashgabat, pilgrims have journeyed for over a century to the tomb of Ak Ishan, a Sufi saint who memorized the Quran by age twelve and served as advisor...

Akagi Shrine

Shinjuku City, Tokyo, Japan

Akagi Shrine (赤城神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference evidence,...

Akasaka Hikawa Shrine

Minato City, Tokyo, Japan

Akasaka Hikawa Shrine (赤坂氷川神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or...

Amanoiwato Shrine

Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan

In a forested gorge in Kyushu's Takachiho region, pilgrims have gathered for centuries at the cave where Amaterasu, the sun goddess and ancestress of Japan's Imperial...

Ana-hachimangu Shrine

Shinjuku City, Tokyo, Japan

Ana-hachimangu Shrine (穴八幡宮) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...

Anamori Inari Shrine

Ota City, Tokyo, Japan

Anamori Inari Shrine (穴守稲荷神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...

Arslankaya

Afyonkarahisar, Turkey

Rising fifteen meters from the shore of Emre Lake, Arslankaya is one of the best-preserved Phrygian rock shrines in existence....

Asagaya Shinmeigū

Suginami City, Tokyo, Japan

Asagaya Shinmeigū (阿佐ヶ谷神明宮) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...

Asakusa Shrine

Taito City, Tokyo, Japan

Asakusa Shrine (浅草神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...

Atago Jinja

Minato City, Tokyo, Japan

Atago Jinja (愛宕神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference evidence,...

Atago Shrine (Atago Jinja)

Part of Mt. Atago

Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Atago Shrine crowns Mount Atago at 924 meters, the highest point surrounding Kyoto....

Atsuta Shrine

Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Atsuta Shrine houses Kusanagi-no-tsurugi, the Grass-Cutting Sword—one of three sacred objects that legitimize Japan's Imperial throne....

Bangkok City Pillar Shrine

Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

Bangkok City Pillar Shrine marks the capital's ritual foundation beside the Grand Palace....

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 Knock, Queen of Ireland

County Mayo, Mayo, Ireland

On a wet evening in 1879, fifteen people watched an apparition appear at the gable of a small parish church in the west of Ireland. No words were spoken....

Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, District of Columbia, belongs within Roman Catholic Christianity....

Basilica Shrine of Caravaca de la Cruz, Spain

Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia, Spain

One of only five Catholic Holy Cities in the world, Caravaca de la Cruz holds a relic believed to contain a fragment of the True Cross....

Báta Holy Blood Shrine

Báta, Báta, Tolna County, Hungary

Báta Holy Blood Shrine is a documented shrine in Báta, Hungary, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....

Bayazid Bostami

Bayejid Bostami, Chattogram, Bangladesh

On a hillock above Chittagong, a shrine attributed to the ninth-century Persian mystic Bayazid Bastami draws thousands of daily pilgrims....

Black Madonna of Breznice

Capital City of Prague, Prague, Czechia

Created in 1396 for King Wenceslas IV, the Madonna of Breznice is among Europe's most explicitly intentional Black Madonnas....

Black Madonna of Częstochowa (Eureka, MO)

Eureka, Missouri, United States

Hidden on a wooded hillside in the Missouri Ozarks, the Black Madonna Shrine is the life's work of Brother Bronislaus Luszcz, a Polish Franciscan who spent 23 years...

Black Madonna of Daurade

Inside Basilica of Notre-Dame de la Daurade

Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France

Notre-Dame la Noire—Our Lady the Black One—has protected mothers in childbirth since at least the tenth century....

Black Madonna of Dublin

Inside Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

In Dublin's Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church, a life-sized oak Madonna stands near the high altar, her original gold and blue paint stripped away by centuries....

Black Madonna of Kaltenleutgeben

Inside Parish Church of Saint James, Kaltenleutgeben

Kaltenleutgeben, Lower Austria, Austria

In this baroque church south of Vienna, a copy of the famous Altotting Black Madonna has drawn pilgrims since 1712....

Black Madonna of Langenzersdorf

Inside St. Katharina, Langenzersdorf

Langenzersdorf, Lower Austria, Austria

Since 1708, this copy of the famous Einsiedeln Black Madonna has kept vigil in St....

Black Madonna of Lavanttal

Inside Basilica Maria Loreto, St. Andra

Sankt Andrä, Carinthia, Austria

In the Carinthian town of St. Andra, within a baroque basilica modeled after Italy's Holy House of Loreto, a Black Madonna has drawn pilgrims for nearly four centuries....

Black Madonna of Loretto Burgenland

Inside Basilica of Maria Loretto in Burgenland

Loretto, Burgenland, Austria

In the Austrian village that took its name from Loreto, a 1644 replica of the famous Black Madonna has outlasted the Italian original....

Black Madonna of Maria Loretto Peninsula

Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria

On a peninsula reaching into Lake Woerthersee, this 17th-century chapel replicates the Holy House of Loreto in Italy....

Black Madonna of Moulins

Inside Moulins Cathedral

Moulins, Allier, France

In Moulins Cathedral, a Black Madonna holds the Christ child who blesses the world with one hand while clutching the closed book of gospels to his chest....

Black Madonna of Naples

Inside Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Naples, Naples, Italy

In a basilica at the edge of Naples' ancient market square, an icon with a dark face gazes down from above the high altar....

Black Madonna of Pontoise

Inside Eglise Notre-Dame de Pontoise

Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France

The Miraculous Virgin of Pontoise stands over two meters tall, fine and slender, carved in the thirteenth century....

Black Madonna of Vichy

Inside Notre-Dame des Malades

Vichy, Allier, France

In November 1793, Revolutionary authorities in Vichy condemned a medieval Black Virgin—tried her like a traitor, sentenced her, beheaded her, and set her burning....

Black Virgin of the Recollects

Inside Church of Our Lady of the Recollects

Verviers, Liege, Belgium

In the Belgian city of Verviers, a 17th-century statue of the Virgin Mary holds a singular place in Black Madonna veneration....

Bodajk Shrine

Bodajk, Bodajk, Fejér County, Hungary

Bodajk Shrine is a documented shrine in Bodajk, Hungary, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....

Byeongsan Seowon

Andong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea

Byeongsan Seowon joins the veneration of Ryu Seong-ryong and his son Ryu Jin with a durable tradition of Neo-Confucian study....

Casa de Yemanjá

Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

On a beach in Salvador's Rio Vermelho neighborhood, a former fishermen's weighing house has become one of the most publicly visible shrines to Yemanjá, the Candomblé...

Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis

St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis in St. At Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, louis, Missouri, belongs within Roman Catholic Christianity....

Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine

St. Augustine, Florida, United States

Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine in St. At Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine, augustine, Florida, belongs within Roman Catholic Christianity....

Chak Chak

دهستان رباطات, Yazd, Iran

High in a desert cliff near Yazd, Chak Chak (Pir-e Sabz) is the most sacred mountain shrine of Zoroastrianism....

Chapel of Soyartze

Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France

Crowning a hill at about 286 metres above Uhart-Mixe, this small open chapel is a Marian sanctuary descended from a twelfth-century Premonstratensian foundation....

Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin

Dublin 8, County Dublin, Ireland

Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin stands in Republic of Ireland as a major pilgrimage site....

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....

Church of the Black Madonna

Letnicë, Viti, Kosovo

High in Kosovo's Karadak hills, the Roman Catholic sanctuary of Letnica holds the Black Madonna, a darkened wooden Virgin believed to work miracles....

Clonard Monastery

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Clonard Monastery is a nationally or regionally important pilgrimage place in Northern Ireland....

Dazaifu Tenmangu

Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Dazaifu Tenmangu, stands in Dazaifu. At Dazaifu Tenmangu, Shinto guides custody. Prayer at Dazaifu Tenmangu addresses Tenjin, the deified Sugawara no Michizane....

Difunta Correa shrine, San Juan

Vallecito, San Juan, Argentina

In the desert east of San Juan, at a place called Vallecito, a shrine complex has grown from a single grave into a small city of offerings....

Diocesan Shrine of the Captive Lord of Ayabaca

Distrito de Ayabaca, Piura, Peru

In the mountains of northwestern Peru, near the border with Ecuador, stands a Christ with bound hands—the Captive Lord of Ayabaca....

Dodong Seowon

Daegu, Daegu, South Korea

Dodong Seowon does not hide rupture. Scholars founded its predecessor in 1568; war destroyed it; a new academy rose at the current site in 1605 and received the name...