Tradition guide
Christianity
Christian sacred sites connect churches, cathedrals, monasteries, relic traditions, pilgrimage shrines, biblical landscapes, and local saint devotion across continents.
748 sacred places share this lineage. Use the country and site-type filters to narrow in.
Atlas summary
Christianity sacred sites overview
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 | 748 Christianity sacred places in the current atlas. |
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| UNESCO heritage | 28 UNESCO-tagged Christianity sites appear in this browse view. |
Dates connected to Christianity
Upcoming festivals, feast days, and pilgrimages tied to Christianity. Add any to your calendar, or see the full observance calendar.
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Fiesta de la Virgen de Copacabana
Aug 5 – Thu, Aug 6, 2026Festival
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Knock National Novena
Aug 14 – Sat, Aug 22, 2026Pilgrimage
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Feast of the Assumption
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Anniversary of the Knock Apparition
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Basilica of Our Lady of Knock, Queen of Ireland
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St Catherine's Hill and Chapel
Guildford, Guildford, Surrey, 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, Boughton Lees, Kent, 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 David’s Cathedral
St Davids, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom
At the western edge of Wales, in Britain's smallest city, a cathedral rests in a hollow. St David founded his monastery here in the 6th century....
St Dunstan's Church, Canterbury
Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
St Dunstan's stands just outside Canterbury's medieval West Gate — the last church a pilgrim passed before entering the city....
St Edith's Well, Kemsing
Kemsing, Kemsing, Kent, United Kingdom
At a quiet junction in Kemsing village stands a small, grilled well traditionally identified as the birthplace of Saint Edith of Wilton, born here around 961....
St George the Martyr Church, Borough
London, Southwark, Greater London, United Kingdom
Standing at the exact junction where medieval London gave way to the road to Canterbury, St George the Martyr has served as a gateway church for nine centuries....
St Gobnait's well (Ballyvourney)
Ballyvourney, County Cork, Ireland
An angel told Gobnait to travel until she found where nine white deer grazed together: there would be her place of resurrection....
St James's Church, Shere
Shere, Shere, Surrey, United Kingdom
St James's Church in Shere is a Norman and Early English parish church on the ancient Pilgrim's Way through the Surrey Hills....
St John the Baptist Church, Harrietsham
Harrietsham, Harrietsham, Kent, United Kingdom
St John the Baptist Church has stood at the edge of the Pilgrim's Way corridor in the Kent North Downs since at least the Norman Conquest....
St John the Baptist Church, Puttenham
Puttenham, Puttenham, Surrey, United Kingdom
St John the Baptist Church in Puttenham has stood beside the medieval Pilgrim's Way since the twelfth century....
St John's Church
Itchen Abbas, Itchen Abbas/near Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom
St John the Baptist in Itchen Abbas has stood beside the River Itchen since the Norman period, its twelfth-century chancel arch still intact within a Victorian shell....
St John's Church
Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom
On Glastonbury's High Street stands a church where prayers have risen for eight centuries. St....
St Katharine's Church, Merstham
Merstham, Merstham, Surrey, United Kingdom
St Katharine's stands on one of Surrey's oldest continuously worshipped sites — over 1,350 years of Christian presence on a chalk ridgeway that became the Pilgrim's Way....
St Kevin's Church, Hollywood
Hollywood, County Wicklow, Ireland
St Kevin's Church in Hollywood, County Wicklow — a disused 17th-century church standing on a medieval ecclesiastical site — marks the traditional starting point of the...
St Laurence Church, Seale
Seale, Seale, Surrey, United Kingdom
St Laurence Church stands on the southern slopes of Surrey's Hog's Back, where the ancient trackway to Canterbury has passed for nearly a thousand years....
St Lawrence the Martyr Church, Godmersham
Godmersham, Godmersham, Kent, United Kingdom
St Lawrence the Martyr Church stands in the Stour Valley on the ancient Pilgrim's Way between Winchester and Canterbury....
St Ludwig Catholic Church, Kraslava
Krāslava, Latvia
In the borderland town of Krāslava, on the Daugava in southeastern Latvia, St. Ludwig's is the finest example of Latgalian Baroque and, after Aglona, the region's second...
St Margaret's Chapel
Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom
Behind a passageway on Magdalene Street, a small chapel and garden offer what Glastonbury's busier sites cannot: genuine quiet....
St Margaret's Churchyard, Darenth
Darenth, Darenth, Kent, United Kingdom
One of Kent's oldest standing churches, St Margaret's rises quietly above the River Darent on a hillside stitched together from Saxon handiwork and Roman tiles....
St Martha-on-the-Hill
Guildford, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom
St Martha-on-the-Hill is an active Church of England parish church perched 573 feet above the Surrey countryside, reachable only on foot....
St Martin's Church, Canterbury
Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
St Martin's Church in Canterbury is widely regarded as the oldest Christian site in continuous use in the English-speaking world, its walls woven from Roman brick laid...
St Martin's Church, Detling
Detling, Detling, Kent, United Kingdom
St Martin's Church stands at the heart of Detling village on the North Downs of Kent, directly on the ancient trackway that medieval pilgrims walked toward Canterbury....
St Mary the Virgin Church, Thurnham
Thurnham, Thurnham, Kent, United Kingdom
Set in a quiet Kentish lane, St Mary the Virgin is a Norman flint church whose churchyard the Pilgrim's Way literally passes through....
St Mary's and All Saints Church, Boxley
Boxley, Boxley, Kent, United Kingdom
St Mary's and All Saints stands at the foot of the North Downs in Boxley village, a few hundred metres from the ancient Pilgrim's Way....
St Mary's Church
Easton, Easton/near Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom
St Mary's Church in Easton is a Grade I listed Norman parish church built around 1200, set in the chalk-stream valley of the Itchen two and three-quarter miles from...
St Mary's Church, Bentley
Bentley, Bentley, Hampshire, United Kingdom
St Mary's Church in Bentley stands on the ancient east-west trackway that became the Pilgrim's Way from Winchester to Canterbury....
St Mary's Church, Chilham
Chilham, Chilham, Kent, United Kingdom
St Mary's Church stands at the heart of Chilham village, a medieval waypoint on the Pilgrim's Way just 11.5 kilometres from Canterbury Cathedral....
St Mary's Church, Patrixbourne
Patrixbourne, Patrixbourne, Kent, United Kingdom
Standing four miles southeast of Canterbury, St Mary's Patrixbourne is one of the finest Norman parish churches in southeast England....
St Michael & All Angels Church, Harbledown
Harbledown, Harbledown, Kent, United Kingdom
Standing on the last ridge before Canterbury, St Michael & All Angels has marked the threshold of the great pilgrimage since Norman times....
St Nicholas Church - Mavrovo
Makedonski Brod, North Macedonia
Submerged in 1953 when communist authorities flooded the village of Mavrovo for a hydroelectric reservoir, St. Nicholas Church was meant to vanish. It did not....
St Nicholas Church, Bishop's Sutton
Bishop's Sutton, Bishop's Sutton, Hampshire, United Kingdom
St Nicholas Church in Bishop's Sutton is a Grade I listed Norman church built c.1150 by Henry de Blois, Bishop of Winchester....
St Nicholas Church, Chawton
Chawton, Chawton, Hampshire, United Kingdom
St Nicholas Church, Chawton has served this Hampshire village since at least 1270, rebuilt in Victorian Gothic after a fire but retaining its medieval chancel....
St Nicholas Church, Thanington
Thanington, Thanington, Kent, United Kingdom
A Norman flint church on the southwest fringe of Canterbury, St Nicholas Thanington has stood beside the pilgrim road for nearly nine hundred years....
St Non’s Chapel and Well
St Davids, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom
South of St Davids, on a cliff overlooking the sea, stands a roofless chapel. Here, according to tradition, St Non gave birth to David, patron saint of Wales, during a...
St Nonna’s Church, Altarnun
Altarnun, England, United Kingdom
Rising from the edge of Bodmin Moor, St Nonna's Church has anchored nearly fifteen centuries of Christian worship on the site where a Welsh saint established her altar....
St Peter & St Paul's Church, Aylesford
Aylesford, Aylesford, Kent, United Kingdom
Standing on a promontory above the River Medway at Aylesford, St Peter and St Paul's has guided travellers on the Pilgrims' Way for centuries....
St Peter & St Paul's Church, Charing
Charing, Charing, Kent, United Kingdom
St Peter & St Paul's Church in Charing has served as the final major overnight halt on the Pilgrim's Way since the medieval period....
St Peter's Church, Ovington
Ovington, Ovington, Hampshire, United Kingdom
St Peter's Church stands in the Itchen Valley village of Ovington as a functioning parish church and waymark on the ancient Pilgrim's Way from Winchester to Canterbury....
St Peter's Church, Ropley
Ropley, Ropley, Hampshire, United Kingdom
St Peter's Church stands on a hilltop mound above Ropley village, its Norman origins visible beneath a Victorian skin and a hard-won modern restoration....
St Swithun's Church
Headbourne Worthy, Martyr Worthy/near Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom
St Swithun's Church at Headbourne Worthy stands just outside Winchester on the ancient Pilgrim's Way, a small Saxon church built in deliberate dedication to the city's...
St. Albans Cathedral, St Albans, United Kingdom
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
St Albans Cathedral stands where Alban, Britain's first recorded Christian martyr, was executed around the third or fourth century....
St. Andrew’s Church, Bishopstone, England
Seaford, England, United Kingdom
Rising from the Sussex Downs where Christians have worshipped since the seventh or eighth century, St Andrew's Church preserves some of England's most remarkable...
St. Bartholomew's Church, Berchtesgaden
Königssee, Bavaria, Germany
St. Bartholomä stands on a peninsula in Lake Königssee, deep in Berchtesgaden National Park, beneath the towering east face of the Watzmann....
St. Beuno shrine and well, Clynnog Fawr, Wales
Clynnog Fawr, Gwynedd, United Kingdom
In Clynnog Fawr, on the pilgrim road to Bardsey Island, stands one of the great churches of North Wales. St Beuno founded his community here in 616 AD....
St. Beuno’s Church and Well, Clynnog Fawr, Wales
Clynnog Fawr, Gwynedd, United Kingdom
Nestled in the hills above Clynnog Fawr, St Beuno's Well has drawn the sick and seeking since the seventh century....
St. Brigid's Cathedral, Kildare
Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland
On a gentle hill in County Kildare stands a Gothic cathedral built over one of Ireland's oldest sacred sites....
St. Brigid's Garden Well
Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland
Near the horse pastures of County Kildare, a natural spring rises from the earth in a garden tended by devotion. St....
St. Cosmas' Church
Saint-Côme-d'Olt, France
In one of the Most Beautiful Villages of France, the church of Saint-Côme-et-Saint-Damien lifts a strange twisted 'flamed' spire above the rooftops....
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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, Portugal, Italy, Lithuania.
- What kinds of places are included?
- Common place types include church, monastery, cathedral, basilica, sanctuary, shrine.
- Can I map Christianity sacred sites?
- Yes. Compare country clusters and site types first, then open individual pages for coordinates, historical context, and visitor guidance.