Christianity

Rochester Cathedral

Rochester, England, United Kingdom

Rochester Cathedral has stood at the Medway crossing since AD 604, making it one of the oldest sites of continuous Christian worship in England....

Rocio, Basilica of Nuestra Señora del Rocio

Almonte, Huelva, Spain

At the edge of the Doñana wetlands in Andalusia, the small village of El Rocío empties for most of the year....

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....

Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo

Ivanovo, Ruse Province, Bulgaria

Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo is a documented church in Ivanovo, Ruse Province, Bulgaria, connected with Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity....

Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela

ላሊበላ / Lalibela, Amhara, Ethiopia

In the Ethiopian highlands, eleven churches descend into volcanic rock rather than rise above it....

Rohia Monastery, Romania

Târgu Lăpuș, Maramureș, Romania

Rohia Monastery rises from a forested hilltop in Maramures, founded by a grieving priest who built a house for the Virgin Mary in memory of his dead daughter....

Røldal Stave Church

Røldal, Røldal, Vestland, Norway

Røldal Stave Church is a documented church in Røldal, Vestland, Norway, connected with Lutheran Christianity....

Roma Abbey Ruins

Roma, Roma, Gotland County, Sweden

Roma Abbey Ruins is a documented archaeological site in Roma, Gotland County, Sweden, connected with Historical Latin Christianity....

Romainmôtier Abbey Church

Romainmôtier-Envy, Romainmôtier-Envy, Vaud, Switzerland

Romainmôtier Abbey Church is a documented monastery in Romainmôtier-Envy, Vaud, Switzerland, connected with Roman Catholic Christianity....

Roman Baths of Bath (Temple of Sulis Minerva)

Bath, England, United Kingdom

At Bath, Britain's only natural hot springs bubble up from deep within the earth at 46 degrees Celsius, as they have for millennia....

Romsey Abbey

Romsey, England, United Kingdom

Romsey Abbey belongs among the significant living Christian places of England. The sacred frame at Romsey Abbey comes from Anglican or historic Western Christian tradition....

Ronas Hill Chambered Cairn

North Roe, Scotland, United Kingdom

On the summit of Shetland's highest hill, Neolithic builders placed a chambered cairn for their dead....

Roncesvalles Collegiate Church

Roncesvalles/Orreaga, Navarre, Spain

Roncesvalles sits just past the Pyrenees crossing from France, at the point where the Camino Francés begins in earnest....

Roskilde Cathedral

Roskilde, Roskilde, Region Zealand, Denmark

Roskilde Cathedral is a documented cathedral in Roskilde, Region Zealand, Denmark, connected with Christianity....

Rosserk Friary

County Mayo, Mayo, Ireland

Rosserk Friary belongs among the significant monastic places of Republic of Ireland. The sacred frame at Rosserk Friary comes from Christian monastic tradition....

Rosslyn

Roslin, Scotland, United Kingdom

Rosslyn Chapel rises from the Scottish landscape like a vision carved in stone. Every surface of this small fifteenth-century building carries carvings of extraordinary...

Rotunda of Saint George

Sofia, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria

The Rotunda of Saint George is an early Christian monument in central Sofia and a functioning Bulgarian Orthodox church....

Rousanou Monastery, Meteora

Kastraki, Kalambaka, Thessaly, Greece

Rousanou is an active Orthodox nunnery occupying nearly the full top of a narrow Meteora rock....

Roussanou Monastery

Part of Meteora

Kalabaka, Thessaly, Greece

Roussanou Monastery fills a narrow summit at Meteora, making the monastic choice of separation visible in stone, stairs, and height....

Royal Abbey of Fontevraud

Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire / Pays de la Loire, France

Royal Abbey of Fontevraud is a documented monastery in Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire / Pays de la Loire, France, connected with Roman Catholic Christianity....

Royal Basilica of Our Lady of Atocha

Madrid, Madrid, Spain

The Royal Basilica provides the church, liturgy, and historical setting for the small image of Our Lady of Atocha....

Royal Basilica of San Francisco el Grande

Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Inaugurated in 1784 by Charles III, the Royal Basilica of San Francisco el Grande pairs an active Franciscan parish with a dome built explicitly to rival the Pantheon and...

Royal Chapel of Granada

Granada, Granada, Spain

Built 1505-1517 by royal charter as the dynastic mausoleum of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, the Royal Chapel is both an active Catholic church and a...

Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe

Guadalupe, Cáceres, Spain

Founded around the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the royal monastery became one of the most influential Marian centres in the Iberian world....

Royal Monastery of Yuste

Cuacos de Yuste, Cáceres, Spain

The Royal Monastery of Yuste rises from the Sierra de Gredos foothills as a working Hieronymite foundation and, since the sixteenth century, as the place where Charles V —...

Rozhen Monastery

Rozhen, Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria

Rozhen Monastery is a documented monastery in Rozhen, Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria, connected with Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity....

Rubik Monastery Church

Rubik, Rubik, Mirditë Municipality, Lezhë County, Albania

Rubik Monastery Church is a documented monastery in Rubik, Mirditë Municipality, Lezhë County, Albania, connected with Christianity....

Rupestra Sinca Veche Monastery, Romania

Șinca Veche, Brașov, Romania

Carved into tuff rock by unknown hands at an unknown date, the cave temple at Sinca Veche in Transylvania defies easy explanation....

Rupite Church of Saint Petka

Rupite / Petrich, Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria

The Church of Saint Petka of Bulgaria is the memorial church built at Rupite with funds provided by Vanga and consecrated in 1994....

Russian Church of Saint Nicholas

Sofia, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria

The Church of Saint Nicholas the Miracle-Maker is the Russian Orthodox metochion in central Sofia....

Russian Orthodox Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene

Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel

Built 1885–1888 by Tsar Alexander III in memory of his mother, the Russian Orthodox Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene rises on the western slope of the Mount of Olives above...

Sacra di San Michele

Sant'Ambrogio di Torino, Piedmont, Italy

Sacra di San Michele is a mountaintop abbey sanctuary entrusted to the Rosminian Fathers in Sant'Ambrogio di Torino, Italy....

Sacred Heart Cathedral

Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Sacred Heart Cathedral stands at the center of Sarajevo, a Neo-Gothic witness to the restoration of Catholicism in Bosnia after nearly seven hundred years without a...

Sacro Monte and Santa Maria Addolorata Sanctuary

Brissago, Brissago, Ticino, Switzerland

Sacro Monte and Santa Maria Addolorata Sanctuary is a documented sanctuary in Brissago, Ticino, Switzerland, connected with Roman Catholic Christianity....

Sacro Monte di Belmonte

Valperga, Turin, Italy

Belmonte holds two devotional histories at once: a Marian sanctuary first documented in 1197, and a Via Crucis chapel complex begun in 1712 by the Franciscan friar...

Sacro Monte di Crea

Serralunga di Crea, Alessandria, Italy

Sacro Monte di Crea crowns the highest hill of the Basso Monferrato with twenty-three chapels and five hermitages built from 1589 around a Marian shrine already centuries...

Sacro Monte di Domodossola

Domodossola, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Italy

Sacro Monte Calvario di Domodossola stages the Passion of Christ across fifteen chapels ascending Mattarella hill, built from 1656 by two Capuchin friars as a local...

Sacro Monte di Ghiffa

Ghiffa, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Italy

Sacro Monte di Ghiffa is the smallest and most unfinished of the nine Sacri Monti, a Counter-Reformation sanctuary raised over a medieval oratory and dedicated, unusually,...

Sacro Monte di Oropa

Biella, Biella, Italy

At 1,159 meters in the Biellese Alps, the Sanctuary of Oropa houses a Black Madonna statue venerated for some sixteen centuries and, above it, a Baroque devotional path...

Sacro Monte di Orta

Orta San Giulio, Novara, Italy

On a green hill overlooking Lake Orta and the island of San Giulio, twenty chapels narrate the life of St....

Sacro Monte di Ossuccio

Ossuccio, Como, Italy

Fourteen Baroque chapels climb a wooded crag some 200 meters above Lake Como to the Sanctuary of the Beata Vergine del Soccorso, built between roughly 1635 and 1710 as a...

Sacro Monte di Varallo

Varallo, Vercelli, Italy

In 1491, a Franciscan friar who had served as rector of the Holy Land set out to bring Jerusalem to those who could not reach it....

Sacro Monte di Varese

Varese, Varese, Italy

A two-kilometer cobbled path called the Via Sacra rises from the edge of Varese through fourteen Baroque chapels, each holding a sculpted and frescoed scene from a Mystery...

Sacro Speco di San Benedetto

Subiaco, Rome, Italy

Around 500 AD, a young man named Benedict withdrew to a cave on Mount Taleo above the Aniene Valley, seeking solitude from the corruption of Rome....

Sacromonte Abbey

Granada, Granada, Spain

Sacromonte Abbey sits above Granada on the hillside renamed 'Sacred Mountain' after 1595, when caves beneath it yielded human remains and inscribed lead plates devotional...

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....

Saghmosavank Monastery

Saghmosavan, Aragatsotn, Armenia

Saghmosavank Monastery is a documented monastery in Saghmosavan, Aragatsotn, Armenia, connected with Armenian Apostolic Christianity....

Sagrada Família

Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

The Sagrada Família began in 1882 as an expiatory temple, funded entirely by donation, dedicated to the Holy Family....