Site type guide
Shrine
Shrines are often intimate centers of devotion, memory, petition, healing, and pilgrimage, ranging from local roadside places to major international destinations.
218 shrine sacred sites. Use the country and tradition filters to narrow in.
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Shrine sacred sites span countries, traditions, pilgrimage routes, and sacred landscapes represented in the Pilgrim Map atlas.
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Our Lady of Le Puy
Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, France
Rising from a 132-meter volcanic spur, Notre-Dame de France dominates Le Puy-en-Velay's extraordinary skyline....
Our Lady of Luján
Inside Basilica of the Virgin of Luján, Luján
Luján, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
In 1630, oxen refused to move until a small statue of the Virgin Mary was unloaded at the banks of the Lujan River....
Our Lady of Rocamadour
Inside The Sanctuary of Rocamadour
Rocamadour, Lot, France
Carved into a limestone cliff above the Alzou Valley, Rocamadour has drawn pilgrims for nearly nine centuries to venerate a small, dark statue known as the Black Madonna....
Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn
Inside Gates of Dawn, Vilniaus
Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania
Above the only surviving gate of Vilnius's medieval walls, a seventeenth-century icon of the Virgin Mary draws Catholic, Orthodox, and Greek Catholic faithful into a...
Our Lady the Black Virgin of Hal
Inside Saint Martin Basilica, Halle
Diegem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
The Black Virgin of Hal is a small thirteenth-century walnut statue of the Virgin and Child kept on the high altar of the Brabantine Gothic basilica of Saint Martin in...
Phong Nha Cave and Tiên Sư Cốc Tự
Phong Nha, Quảng Trị, Vietnam
According to official park history, Phong Nha Cave and Tiên Sư Cốc Tự join an exact river-cave identity with a living guardian-deity shrine beside its entrance....
Phra Trimurti Shrine
Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
The Phra Trimurti Shrine outside CentralWorld is a modern Bangkok worship site whose image is associated with Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva....
Pir Khidir Zinda
Siyazan, Siyazan, Azerbaijan
At the foot of Beshbarmag Mountain on Azerbaijan's Caspian coast, Pir Khidir Zinda marks the place where the prophet Khidr is said to have achieved immortality....
Piram Seowon
Jangseong-gun, Jeollanam-do, South Korea
Piram Seowon centers the scholarship and moral example of Kim In-hu, a sixteenth-century Neo-Confucian teacher associated with rigorous reading of Great Learning....
Quiapo Church (Minor Basilica and National Shrine of Jesus Nazareno)
Quiapo, Manila, Manila, Philippines
Quiapo Church is Manila's Minor Basilica and National Shrine of Jesus Nazareno, home to one of the Philippines' most sustained public Catholic devotions....
Remete Marian Shrine
Zagreb, Zagreb, City of Zagreb, Croatia
Remete Marian Shrine is a documented shrine in Zagreb, Croatia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Rock of Cashel
Cashel, Tipperary, Ireland
Rock of Cashel stands in Republic of Ireland as a major pilgrimage site. At Rock of Cashel, Christian pilgrimage tradition provides the public sacred context....
Saenamteo Catholic Holy Ground
Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
Saenamteo is a Catholic martyrdom shrine beside the Han River in Seoul, remembered as a place where clergy and lay believers were executed during Joseon persecution....
Sajikdan Altar
Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
Sajikdan’s altars are deliberately spare. Their meaning comes from what Joseon government placed upon them: responsibility for land, grain, rain, harvest, crisis, and the...
Samseonggung Shrine
Hadong-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
Samseonggung is a modern religious complex high on Jirisan, founded in 1983 by Kang Min-ju, known as Hanpul, and his disciples....
Samseonghyeol
Cheju, Jeju-do, South Korea
Samseonghyeol centers on three small depressions associated with Go, Yang, and Bu, ancestral founders in Jeju tradition. Their physical modesty matters....
San Antonio Missions
San Antonio, Texas, United States
San Antonio Missions in San Antonio, Texas, belongs within Roman Catholic Christianity....
San Miguel Chapel
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
San Miguel Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico, belongs within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Kibeho
Kibeho, Southern, Rwanda
Between 1981 and 1989, three Rwandan schoolgirls at Kibeho College reported apparitions of Mary identifying herself as Nyina wa Jambo, Mother of the Word....
Sanctuary of Our Lady of the End of the Bridge – Refuge of the Mother and Child of Pau
Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
In Pau, this neo-Gothic church gathers a Béarnais Marian devotion documented since the sixteenth century — Our Lady at the end of the bridge, invoked for safe crossing and...
Santa Casa di Loreto
Inside Santuario della Santa Casa di Loreto
Loreto, Ancona, Italy
At the center of Loreto's basilica, enclosed within Bramante's marble screen, stand three rough stone walls....
Saul Church
Saul, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Saul Church is a nationally or regionally important pilgrimage place in Northern Ireland. Saul Church is interpreted here through Christian pilgrimage tradition....
Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine
Pacific Palisades, California, United States
Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine in Pacific Palisades, California, belongs within Kriya Yoga and interfaith contemplative practice....
Setagaya Hachiman-gu
Setagaya City, Tokyo, Japan
Setagaya Hachiman-gu (世田谷八幡宮) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Shiba Daijingū
Minato City, Tokyo, Japan
Shiba Daijingū (芝大神宮) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Shiba-Toshogu Shrine
Minato City, Tokyo, Japan
Shiba-Toshogu Shrine (芝東照宮) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Shimogamo-jinja Shrine
Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Kamo worship carried through Tadasu no Mori and ritual water. Shimogamo-jinja Shrine remains an active Shinto shrine....
Shinagawa Shrine
Shinagawa City, Tokyo, Japan
Shinagawa Shrine (品川神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Shōin Shrine
Setagaya City, Tokyo, Japan
Shōin Shrine (松陰神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference evidence,...
Shrine of La Virgen del Puente
Sahagún, León, Spain
A small Mudéjar brick hermitage beside a medieval bridge over the Valderaduey, marking the first Marian waypoint pilgrims meet on the Camino Francés as they cross from...
Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help
Champion, Wisconsin, United States
In a quiet corner of Wisconsin's Northwoods, Belgian immigrant Adele Brise reported three apparitions of Mary in October 1859....
Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu
Madhu, Mannar, Sri Lanka
The shrine is a physical church and gathering place, not merely the name of a Marian object....
Shrine of Our Lady of Trsat
Rijeka, Rijeka, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia
Shrine of Our Lady of Trsat is a documented shrine in Rijeka, Croatia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Shrine of St Margaret Clitherow
York, England, United Kingdom
Shrine of St Margaret Clitherow belongs among the significant pilgrimage places of England....
Shrine of the Virgen de Gracia
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, Spain
Tucked in the Herrería forest above San Lorenzo de El Escorial, this small hermitage holds the town's patroness — a Marian image local tradition says was discovered by...
Sosu Seowon
Yeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea
Sosu Seowon is sacred within Korean Neo-Confucian practice because education and veneration were designed as one moral discipline....
St Nectan's Church, Hartland
Hartland, England, United Kingdom
St Nectan's Church, Hartland is a nationally or regionally important pilgrimage place in England....
St Ninian's Cave
Whithorn, Scotland, United Kingdom
St Ninian's Cave belongs among the significant pilgrimage places of Scotland. The sacred frame at St Ninian's Cave comes from Christian pilgrimage tradition....
St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
Dublin 8, County Dublin, Ireland
St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin is a nationally or regionally important pilgrimage place in Republic of Ireland....
St. Louis Cathedral
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, Louisiana, belongs within Roman Catholic Christianity. At St. Louis Cathedral, sacred life continues through Mass at St....
St. Patrick's Cathedral
New York, New York, United States
St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, New York, belongs within Roman Catholic Christianity. At St. Patrick's Cathedral, sacred life continues through Mass at St....
Suitengu Shrine
Chuo City, Tokyo, Japan
Suitengu Shrine (水天宮) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Sumiyoshi Jinja
Chuo City, Tokyo, Japan
Sumiyoshi Jinja (住吉神社（佃）) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Sumiyoshi-taisha
Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
When Izanagi purified himself in the sea after his journey to the underworld, three deities emerged from the waters—the Sumiyoshi Sanjin, gods of the sea who have...
Susanō Shrine
Arakawa City, Tokyo, Japan
Susanō Shrine (素盞雄神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Suwa-taisha
Suwa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Suwa-taisha predates shrine architecture itself. Four shrines encircle Lake Suwa in Nagano Prefecture, but their sacred objects are not artifacts—they are Mount Moriya and...
The Friars, Aylesford Priory
Aylesford, England, United Kingdom
Founded in 1242 on the banks of the Medway, Aylesford Priory is the cradle of the English Carmelite Order and home to the relic of St Simon Stock....
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Laghet
La Trinité, Alpes-Maritimes, France
High in the hills between Nice and Monaco, the Sanctuary of Notre-Dame de Laghet has drawn pilgrims since 1652, when spontaneous healings began occurring at a humble...
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Key questions
Shrine sacred-site questions
- What shrine sacred sites are included?
- Shrine sacred sites are places where this site type carries religious, ritual, cultural, or pilgrimage significance. This guide lists 218 in the current Pilgrim Map atlas.
- Where are these shrine sites located?
- Major country clusters include Japan, United States, South Korea, France, Spain, Thailand.
- Which traditions are represented?
- Traditions represented here include Shinto, Christianity, Roman Catholic Christianity, Christian pilgrimage tradition, Korean Neo-Confucianism, Islam.
- Can I view shrine 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.