Christianity

Svatý Jan pod Skalou Monastery and Cave Shrine

Svatý Jan pod Skalou, Svatý Jan pod Skalou, Central Bohemian Region, Czechia

Svatý Jan pod Skalou Monastery and Cave Shrine is a documented monastery in Svatý Jan pod Skalou, Central Bohemian Region, Czechia, connected with Roman Catholic...

Svatý Kopeček Basilica

Olomouc-Svatý Kopeček, Olomouc-Svatý Kopeček, Olomouc Region, Czechia

Svatý Kopeček Basilica is a documented church in Olomouc-Svatý Kopeček, Olomouc Region, Czechia, connected with Roman Catholic Christianity....

Sveta Bogoroditsa Church

Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Sveta Bogoroditsa stands in central Plovdiv as the city's principal Orthodox cathedral, an active place of worship on a site where Christians have gathered since the ninth...

Sveta Gora Basilica

Sveta Gora, Sveta Gora, Nova Gorica Municipality / Goriška, Slovenia

Sveta Gora Basilica is a documented basilica in Sveta Gora, Slovenia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....

Svetitskhoveli Cathedral

Mtskheta, Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Georgia

The site is Svetitskhoveli Cathedral and its immediate ecclesiastical precinct, one component of the Historical Monuments of Mtskheta.

Sweetheart Abbey

New Abbey, Scotland, United Kingdom

Sweetheart Abbey belongs among the significant monastic places of Scotland. The sacred frame at Sweetheart Abbey comes from Christian monastic tradition....

Święta Lipka Sanctuary

Święta Lipka, Święta Lipka, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland

Święta Lipka Sanctuary is a documented sanctuary in Święta Lipka, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland, connected with Roman Catholic Christianity....

Szombathely, St. Martin’s Church

Szombathely, Vas, Hungary

In Szombathely, western Hungary, St Martin's Church marks by tradition the birthplace of Saint Martin of Tours....

Taevaskoda Sacred Spring

Taevaskoja, Taevaskoja, Põlva County, Estonia

Taevaskoda Sacred Spring is a documented sacred natural site in Taevaskoja, Põlva County, Estonia, connected with Indigenous and pre-Christian regional traditions....

Talin Cathedral

Talin, Aragatsotn, Armenia

Talin Cathedral is a documented cathedral in Talin, Aragatsotn, Armenia, connected with Armenian Apostolic Christianity....

Talley Abbey

Talley, Wales, United Kingdom

Talley Abbey is a nationally or regionally important monastic place in Wales. Talley Abbey is interpreted here through Christian monastic tradition....

Tallinn Dominican Convent

Tallinn, Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia

Tallinn Dominican Convent is a documented monastery in Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia, connected with Historical Latin Christianity....

Tammealuse Sacred Grove

Samma, Samma, Lääne-Viru County, Estonia

Tammealuse Sacred Grove is a documented sacred natural site in Samma, Lääne-Viru County, Estonia, connected with Indigenous and pre-Christian regional traditions....

Tanahat Monastery

Vernashen, Vayots Dzor, Armenia

Tanahat Monastery is a documented monastery in Vernashen, Vayots Dzor, Armenia, connected with Armenian Apostolic Christianity....

Tarragona Cathedral

Tarragona, Tarragona, Spain

Tarragona Cathedral sits above the vanished Temple of Augustus, at the heart of what was once the Roman Empire's provincial forum....

Tatev Monastery

Tatev, Syunik, Armenia

Tatev Monastery is a documented monastery in Tatev, Syunik, Armenia, connected with Armenian Apostolic Christianity....

Tatevi Anapat

Tatev, Syunik, Armenia

Tatevi Anapat is a documented sacred site in Tatev, Syunik, Armenia, connected with Armenian Apostolic Christianity....

Tautra Monastery Ruins

Tautra / Frosta, Tautra / Frosta, Trøndelag, Norway

Tautra Monastery Ruins is a documented archaeological site in Tautra / Frosta, Trøndelag, Norway, connected with Historical Latin Christianity....

Tavna Monastery

Tavna, Tavna/Banjica, Bijeljina Region, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Tavna Monastery is a documented monastery in Tavna, Bosnia and Herzegovina, held within Eastern Orthodox Christianity....

Teghenyats Monastery

Bujakan, Kotayk, Armenia

Teghenyats Monastery is a documented monastery in Bujakan, Kotayk, Armenia, connected with Armenian Apostolic Christianity....

Tegher Monastery

Tegher, Aragatsotn, Armenia

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

Telgte Pilgrimage Chapel

Telgte, Telgte, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Telgte Pilgrimage Chapel is a documented chapel in Telgte, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, connected with Roman Catholic Christianity....

Tell Mar Elias

Listib, Listib, Ajloun Governorate, Jordan

Tell Mar Elias is a documented archaeological site in Listib, Ajloun Governorate, Jordan, connected with Christianity....

Telsiai Cathedral

Telšiai, Telšiai, Lithuania

Telsiai Cathedral stands atop Insulos hill, the highest point in the city of seven hills, overlooking Lake Mastis in western Lithuania....

Temple of Saint Sava

Vračar, Vračar / Belgrade, City of Belgrade, Serbia

Temple of Saint Sava is a documented church in Vračar, Serbia, held within Eastern Orthodox Christianity....

Templo y Ex-Convento de la Asunción, Muna

Muna, Yucatán, Mexico

The Templo y Ex-Convento de la Asunción in Muna, Yucatán, is an active Franciscan-founded parish church dedicated to the Assumption of Mary, standing on the Ruta de los...

Teplá Abbey

Teplá, Teplá, Karlovy Vary Region, Czechia

Teplá Abbey is a documented monastery in Teplá, Karlovy Vary Region, Czechia, connected with Roman Catholic Christianity....

Tewkesbury Abbey

Tewkesbury, England, United Kingdom

Rising above the confluence of the Severn and Avon rivers, Tewkesbury Abbey has held continuous Christian worship since the 7th century....

The Abbey Church of the Holy Savior in Figeac

Lot, France

At the heart of medieval Figeac stands Saint-Sauveur, the surviving abbey church of a Benedictine, later Cluniac, monastery founded in 838 whose relics drew pilgrims for...

The Bishop's Palace, Halling

Halling, England, United Kingdom

The Bishop's Palace at Halling is a fragmentary medieval ruin — a single standing wall of a Great Hall once at the heart of episcopal Kent — set in the churchyard of an...

The Black Madonna of Le Puy

Inside Cathédrale Notre-Dame-du-Puy

Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, France

In Le Puy's great cathedral, on the altar where pilgrims have knelt for fifteen centuries, sits a Black Madonna only two centuries old....

The Church of Saint Fleuret in Estaing

Aveyron, France

In the village of Estaing, reached across a UNESCO-listed Gothic bridge, the flamboyant church of Saint-Fleuret holds the relics of the village's patron, a bishop said to...

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 parish church of the Assumption (Maria am Berg), Hallstatt

Hallstatt, Upper Austria, Austria

High above Lake Hallstatt, the parish church of Maria am Berg sits between mountain and water in one of Europe's oldest continuously inhabited settlements. Beside it, St....

The Parish Church of the Assumption (Maria am Berg), Hallstatt

Hallstatt, Upper Austria, Austria

Perched on a steep mountainside above Lake Hallstatt, the Parish Church of the Assumption rises like a declaration of permanence against the transient Alpine weather....

The Sainte-Foy abbey church in Conques

Conques-en-Rouergue, Aveyron, France

A twelve-year-old girl was beheaded in 303 for refusing to worship Roman gods. Her relics came to Conques through holy theft, and her golden statue-reliquary—the oldest in...

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...

The Sanctuary of Rocamadour

Rocamadour, Lot, France

Clinging to a sheer cliff face above the Alzou River canyon, Rocamadour has drawn pilgrims since the Middle Ages to venerate the ancient Black Madonna....

The Sanctuary of Saint Rosalia

Palermo, Palermo, Italy

High on Monte Pellegrino above Palermo, a sanctuary extends into the cave where a twelfth-century noblewoman spent her final years in solitary prayer....

The Sanctuary of the Peña de Francia

El Cabaco, Salamanca, Spain

Rising to 1,723 meters in the Sierra de Francia, this Dominican sanctuary guards a Black Madonna hidden for six centuries during Muslim rule....

The Sanctuary of Tindari

Patti, Messina, Italy

On a promontory 180 meters above the Tyrrhenian Sea, where Greeks once worshipped Ceres and Byzantine sailors found refuge from a storm, stands one of Sicily's most...

The Sorrowful Mother Shrine

Bellevue, Ohio, United States

In the rolling farmland of northern Ohio, pilgrims have sought solace at this Marian shrine for over 170 years....

The Street of the Dead

Iona, Scotland, United Kingdom

The Street of the Dead is a cobbled medieval processional way on the Isle of Iona, running from Martyrs Bay to the ancient burial ground of Reilig Odhrain beside Iona...

Thyatira

Akhisar, Manisa, Turkey

Thyatira was the smallest of the seven cities addressed in the Book of Revelation, yet it received the longest of Christ's seven letters — commended for endurance,...

Tihany Benedictine Abbey

Tihany, Tihany, Veszprém County, Hungary

Tihany Benedictine Abbey is a documented monastery in Tihany, Hungary, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....

Timios Stavros Church

Pelendri, Pelendri, Limassol District, Cyprus

Timios Stavros Church is a documented church in Pelendri, Limassol District, Cyprus, connected with Orthodox Christianity....

Timotesubani Monastery

Borjomi, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia

Timotesubani Monastery is a documented monastery in Borjomi, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia, connected with Georgian Orthodox Christianity....

Tinos

Tinos, South Aegean, Greece

Panagia Evangelistria stands at the top of a long marble road in the port town of Tinos, holding an icon of the Annunciation unearthed in 1823 after a nun's visions....