Tradition guide
Christianity
Christian sacred sites connect churches, cathedrals, monasteries, relic traditions, pilgrimage shrines, biblical landscapes, and local saint devotion across continents.
1,865 sacred places share this lineage. Use the country links to narrow in.
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Christianity sacred sites connect places through shared lineage, ritual use, memory, and pilgrimage practice across the Pilgrim Map atlas.
Use this page to compare country clusters, common place types, UNESCO-tagged landmarks, and the map distribution before exploring individual site pages.
| Coverage | 1,865 Christianity sacred places in the current atlas. |
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| UNESCO heritage | 104 UNESCO-tagged Christianity sites appear in this browse view. |
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Ebenezer Baptist Church
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, belongs within Black Protestant Christianity....
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...
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...
Eidsborg Stave Church
Eidsborg, Eidsborg, Telemark, Norway
Eidsborg Stave Church is a documented church in Eidsborg, Telemark, Norway, connected with Lutheran Christianity....
Ein as-Sultan / Elisha’s Spring
Jericho, Jericho Governorate, Palestinian Territories
Ein as-Sultan rises beside ancient Jericho and remains part of the oasis’s water landscape.
Einsiedeln Abbey
Einsiedeln, Schwyz, Switzerland
Rising above a Swiss Alpine valley, Einsiedeln Abbey has welcomed pilgrims for over a millennium....
Ejmiatsin Armenian Church, Tbilisi
Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia
This record covers St Etchmiatsin Church in Tbilisi’s Avlabari district, not the cathedral at Vagharshapat in Armenia or another church with the same dedication.
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....
Ennis Friary
Ennis, Clare, Ireland
Ennis Friary stands in Republic of Ireland as a major monastic site. At Ennis Friary, Christian monastic tradition provides the public sacred context....
Eremo delle Carceri
Assisi, Assisi, Umbria, Italy
Eremo delle Carceri is a documented hermitage in Assisi, Umbria, Italy, connected with Roman Catholic Christianity....
Ermita de Betlem
Artà, Balearic Islands, Spain
Ermita de Betlem sits some nine kilometers into the hills above Artà, on a hermitage founded in 1805 by monks who built over an old watchtower and named the place for the...
Eshaness Broch
Hillswick, Scotland, United Kingdom
On a promontory in the Loch of Houlland, reached by stone causeways across the water, the Broch of Houlland rises to four metres against the sky of northwest Shetland....
Eski Gumus Monastery, Nigde, Turkey
Niğde, Niğde, Turkey
At Gümüşler, near Niğde in Türkiye, a courtyard opens within a large mass of carved rock. Around it lie the church and other monastic spaces....
Espace Bernadette Soubirous Nevers
Nevers, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
Espace Bernadette Soubirous Nevers is a living sanctuary, religious community site, and pilgrim hospitality center in Nevers, France....
Esphigmenou Monastery
Mount Athos, monastic community of Mount Athos, Greece
Esphigmenou is an Eastern Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Ascension of Christ at the northern end of Mount Athos....
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....
Esrum Abbey
Esrum, Esrum, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Esrum Abbey is a documented monastery in Esrum, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark, connected with Christianity....
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...
Etropole Monastery
Etropole, Sofia Province, Bulgaria
Etropole Monastery is a documented monastery in Etropole, Sofia Province, Bulgaria, connected with Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity....
Ettal Abbey
Ettal, Ettal, Bavaria, Germany
Ettal Abbey is a documented monastery in Ettal, Bavaria, Germany, connected with Roman Catholic Christianity....
Euphrasian Basilica
Poreč, Poreč, Istria County, Croatia
Euphrasian Basilica is a documented basilica in Poreč, Croatia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
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....
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....
Ex-Convento de San Miguel Arcángel, Maní
Maní, Yucatán, Mexico
The Ex-Convento de San Miguel Arcángel in Maní, Yucatán, is a functioning Franciscan-founded parish church and also the site of the 1562 auto de fe, when Bishop Diego de...
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...
Fallóskút Marian Shrine
Fallóskút (Mátraszentimre), Fallóskút (Mátraszentimre), Heves County, Hungary
Fallóskút Marian Shrine is a documented shrine in Fallóskút (Mátraszentimre), Hungary, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Farnham Castle
Farnham, England, United Kingdom
Farnham grew up around a castle built in 1138 by Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester, and the parish church of St Andrew, whose worship continues unbroken from at least...
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...
Fatima
Fátima, Santarém, Portugal
On a hillside in central Portugal, three shepherd children encountered something that would draw millions....
Fenek Monastery
Jakovo, Jakovo / Belgrade, City of Belgrade, Serbia
Fenek Monastery is a documented monastery in Jakovo, Serbia, held within Eastern Orthodox Christianity....
Fidenza Cathedral
Fidenza, Parma, Italy
Fidenza Cathedral is the active Catholic shrine and cathedral of Saint Domninus on the Via Francigena....
Filotheou Monastery
Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece
The record concerns a living Athonite monastery within Eastern Orthodox Christianity....
Finchale Priory
Framwellgate Moor, England, United Kingdom
Finchale Priory stands in England as a major monastic site. At Finchale Priory, Christian monastic tradition provides the public sacred context....
Flaran Abbey
Gers, France
Flaran Abbey, founded in 1151 at the confluence of the Auloue and Baïse, is among the best-preserved Cistercian abbeys of south-west France....
Fleury Abbey
Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, Loiret / Centre-Val de Loire, France
Fleury Abbey is a documented monastery in Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, Loiret / Centre-Val de Loire, France, connected with Roman Catholic Christianity....
Flüeli-Ranft Hermitage and Chapels
Flüeli-Ranft, Flüeli-Ranft, Obwalden, Switzerland
Flüeli-Ranft Hermitage and Chapels is a documented chapel in Flüeli-Ranft, Obwalden, Switzerland, connected with Roman Catholic Christianity....
Fore Abbey
Fore, Westmeath, Ireland
Fore Abbey stands in Republic of Ireland as a major monastic site. At Fore Abbey, Christian monastic tradition provides the public sacred context....
Former Cistercian Monastery at Kostanjevica na Krki
Kostanjevica na Krki, Kostanjevica na Krki, Krško Municipality / Southeast Slovenia, Slovenia
Former Cistercian Monastery at Kostanjevica na Krki is a documented monastery in Kostanjevica na Krki, Slovenia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
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....
Fountains Abbey
Ripon, England, United Kingdom
Fountains Abbey stands in England as a major monastic site. At Fountains Abbey, Christian monastic tradition provides the public sacred context....
Franciscan Monastery and Church of Our Lady of the Angels, Orebić
Orebić, Orebić, Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Croatia
Franciscan Monastery and Church of Our Lady of the Angels, Orebić is a documented monastery in Orebić, Croatia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Frauenberg an der Enns Pilgrimage Church
Frauenberg (Ardning), Frauenberg (Ardning), Styria, Austria
Frauenberg an der Enns Pilgrimage Church is a documented church in Frauenberg (Ardning), Styria, Austria, connected with Roman Catholic Christianity....
Frösö Church
Frösön / Östersund, Frösön / Östersund, Jämtland County, Sweden
Frösö Church is a documented archaeological site in Frösön / Östersund, Jämtland County, Sweden, connected with Indigenous and pre-Christian regional traditions....
Fulda Cathedral and Tomb of St Boniface
Fulda, Fulda, Hesse, Germany
Fulda Cathedral and Tomb of St Boniface is a documented cathedral in Fulda, Hesse, Germany, connected with Roman Catholic Christianity....
Gamla Uppsala Church
Gamla Uppsala, Gamla Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden
Gamla Uppsala Church is a documented church in Gamla Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden, connected with Lutheran Christianity....
Gamla Uppsala Royal Mounds and Cult Landscape
Gamla Uppsala, Gamla Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden
Gamla Uppsala Royal Mounds and Cult Landscape is a documented archaeological site in Gamla Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden, connected with Indigenous and pre-Christian...
Garabandal
Rionansa, Cantabria, Spain
In the Cantabrian Mountains of northern Spain, a village of stone houses holds an unusual place among Marian apparition sites....
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Key questions
Christianity sacred-site questions
What are Christianity sacred sites?
Christianity sacred sites are places connected by shared lineage, practice, memory, ritual use, or pilgrimage tradition.
Where can I find Christianity sacred sites?
The strongest country clusters in this guide include United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Armenia, Georgia.
What kinds of places are included?
The guide includes sacred landscapes, pilgrimage places, and ritual or historical sites where available.
Can I map Christianity sacred sites?
Yes. Compare country clusters and physical forms first, then open individual pages for coordinates, historical context, and visitor guidance.