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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Church of the Virgin Mary Victorious, Kazokiskes
Kazokiškės, Vilnius County, Lithuania
In the quiet Lithuanian countryside southeast of Vilnius, a late Baroque church holds a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary Victorious that has drawn pilgrims since the...
Church of the Virgin Mary, Daqadus, Egypt
Mit Ghamr City, Ad Dakahliya, Egypt
In the Nile Delta village of Daqadus, a Coptic church marks where the Holy Family rested during their flight into Egypt....
Church of the Virgin of the Poor, Banneux
Sprimont, Liège, Belgium
Banneux is a small woodland Marian shrine in the Ardennes of Wallonia where the Virgin appeared eight times to eleven-year-old Mariette Beco between 15 January and 2 March...
Coimbra New Cathedral
Coimbra, Coimbra, Coimbra / Centro, Portugal
Built in the late 16th and 17th centuries as the church of a Jesuit college training missionaries for Portugal's colonial territories, this building became the seat of the...
Coimbra Old Cathedral
Coimbra, Coimbra, Coimbra / Centro, Portugal
The Sé Velha is the only Portuguese Romanesque cathedral from the Reconquista era to survive largely intact....
Collégiale Saint-Martin de Candes
Candes-Saint-Martin, Candes-Saint-Martin, Centre-Val de Loire (Indre-et-Loire), France
A Gothic collegiate church in a Loire Valley village marks the exact spot where Martin of Tours, one of Western Christianity's most venerated saints, died in 397....
Collegiate Church of Saint Peter, La Romieu
La Romieu, France
The Collegiate Church of Saint-Pierre rises over La Romieu, a Gascon village founded as a sheltered waystation on the road to Santiago....
Cologne Cathedral
Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Cologne Cathedral rises from the Rhine plain in twin spires that took six centuries to complete....
Condom Cathedral
Condom, France
Condom Cathedral, the Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, rises over the Gascon town above the Baïse river....
Convent of Christ
Tomar, Tomar, Santarém / Centro, Portugal
Founded in 1160 by the Knights Templar and later inherited whole by the Portuguese Order of Christ, this hilltop complex in Tomar grew across five centuries of Romanesque,...
Convent of Saint Francis, Santarém
Santarém, Santarém, Santarém / Alentejo-Centro transition, Portugal
Founded in 1242 by King Sancho II for the newly arrived Franciscan order, the Convento de São Francisco grew from a mendicant ideal of austerity into a royal pantheon...
Convent of Saint Teresa, Ávila
Ávila, Ávila, Castile and León, Spain
A 17th-century Baroque church and convent raised over the room where Teresa of Ávila was born in 1515, now an active Discalced Carmelite site holding her relics in a crypt...
Convent of San Antón, Castrojeriz
Castrojeriz, Castrojeriz, Burgos, Castile and León, Spain
Roofless and half-collapsed since the eighteenth century, the Convent of San Antón stands directly astride the Camino Francés outside Castrojeriz, its Gothic arch spanning...
Convent of Santo Agostinho
Leiria, Leiria, Leiria / Centro, Portugal
On the banks of the Lis River in Leiria, a late-sixteenth-century Augustinian convent gave the city one of its most enduring religious complexes....
Cotoca, Santuario de la Virgen de Cotoca
Cotoca, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Bolivia's most beloved Marian pilgrimage rises from the central plaza of Cotoca, a small town east of Santa Cruz de la Sierra....
Cozia Monastery, Romania
Calimanesti, Vâlcea, Romania
Cozia Monastery occupies a dramatic position on the bank of the Olt River in the Valcea region of southern Romania....
Cranfield Church, Antrim, Northern Ireland
Antrim and Newtownabbey District, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
On the northern shore of Lough Neagh, Ireland's largest lake, the ruins of Cranfield Church mark the traditional burial place of St Olcan, a disciple of St Patrick....
Cristo Rey, Cerro del Cubilete
Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico
Rising 2,580 meters above central Mexico, Cristo Rey stands where believers placed Christ at the geographic heart of their nation....
Cross Hill
Medjugorje, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Rising above the village of Medjugorje, Cross Hill bears a 16-tonne concrete cross built in 1934 by parishioners who carried every grain of cement and drop of water up 520...
Culswick Broch
Walls, United Kingdom
On a conical hilltop above the western coast of Shetland, the walls of Culswick Broch still stand in local red granite, warm-coloured and resolute after two thousand years....
Curtea De Arges Monastery, Romania
Curtea de Argeș, Argeș, Romania
Curtea de Arges Monastery stands at the heart of a small Wallachian town, its twisted columns and intricate stonework producing an architecture found nowhere else in...
Darjiu Fortified Church
Darjiu, Harghita County, Romania
In the hills of Transylvania, the Darjiu Fortified Church holds stories within stories. Fourteenth-century walls bear 1419 frescoes of St. Ladislaus rescuing a maiden....
Đền Đức Mẹ La Vang
Hải Lăng, Hải Lăng, Quảng Trị Province, Vietnam
Đền Đức Mẹ La Vang is the spiritual heart of Vietnamese Catholicism. Oral tradition holds that in 1798, during the Tây Sơn dynasty's persecution of Catholics, Mary...
Difunta Correa shrine, San Juan
Vallecito, San Juan, Argentina
In the desert east of San Juan, at a place called Vallecito, a shrine complex has grown from a single grave into a small city of offerings....
Diocesan Shrine of the Captive Lord of Ayabaca
Distrito de Ayabaca, Piura, Peru
In the mountains of northwestern Peru, near the border with Ecuador, stands a Christ with bound hands—the Captive Lord of Ayabaca....
Dun Carloway Broch
Carloway, United Kingdom
On a rocky knoll above East Loch Roag, the walls of Dun Carloway Broch still rise nine metres without mortar....
Dunadd sacred hill, Lochgilphead, Scotland
Bridgend, Scotland, United Kingdom
A rocky crag rises from the ancient Great Moss at the mouth of Kilmartin Glen. On its summit, a footprint carved into living rock marks the place where the Gaelic kings of...
Durham Cathedral
Durham, England, United Kingdom
For 120 years, monks fleeing Vikings carried the body of St. Cuthbert across northern England....
Eastbridge Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr
Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
Eastbridge Hospital has stood on Canterbury's High Street since around 1180, built to receive exhausted pilgrims arriving to venerate Thomas Becket....
Éauze Cathedral
Eauze, France
Saint-Luperc, the former cathedral of Éauze, stands on the site of Roman Elusa, a bishop's see since late antiquity....
Eglise Notre-Dame de Pontoise
Pontoise, Île-de-France, 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, Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Provence, 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...
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Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, Martigues
Martigues, Martigues, Provence, 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...
Einsiedeln Abbey
Einsiedeln, Schwyz, Switzerland
Rising above a Swiss Alpine valley, Einsiedeln Abbey has welcomed pilgrims for over a millennium....
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....
Ermita de Betlem
Artà, Artà, Mallorca, 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, 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....
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....
Etchmiadzin Cathedral
Vagharshapat, Armavir Province, 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...
Évora Cathedral
Évora, Évora, Évora / Alentejo, 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, Castrojeriz, Burgos, Castile and León, 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, 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...
Farnham Castle
Farnham, Farnham, Surrey, 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, Faro / Algarve, 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....
Flaran Abbey
Valence-sur-Baïse, 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....
Fortingall Yew Tree and Church, Perthshire, Scotland
Fortingall, Alba / 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....
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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.