Tradition guide
Christianity
Christian sacred sites connect churches, cathedrals, monasteries, relic traditions, pilgrimage shrines, biblical landscapes, and local saint devotion across continents.
1,513 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.
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Callanish Stone Circle 8
Callanish, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the southern coast of Great Bernera, three standing stones and one fallen companion form a semicircle at the edge of a sheer cliff above Loch Roag....
Callanish Stone Circle III
Callanish, Scotland, United Kingdom
On a low ridge southeast of the main Callanish Stones, a double concentric ring of Lewisian gneiss has stood for nearly five thousand years....
Caninde, Estátua de São Francisco
Canindé, Ceará, Brazil
Rising thirty meters above the parched hills of Ceará, the Estátua de São Francisco das Chagas watches over the largest Franciscan pilgrimage in the Americas....
Canterbury Cathedral
Canterbury, England, United Kingdom
Canterbury Cathedral stands at the end of the Pilgrim's Way as the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the site of Thomas Becket's martyrdom in 1170....
Capela das Almas
Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Before Viana do Castelo had a cathedral, it had this modest riverside chapel — its first mother church, built on Romanesque foundations that excavation suggests may reach...
Capela de São Roque e São Tiago Maior
Póvoa de Varzim, Porto, Portugal
Built in 1582 as a plea for protection against plague, this small chapel on Póvoa de Varzim's main square changed character when a statue of Saint James — found on the...
Carcassonne
Carcassonne, Aude, France
Carcassonne rises above the Aude River as Europe's largest surviving medieval fortified city....
Carlisle Cathedral
Carlisle, England, United Kingdom
Carlisle Cathedral belongs among the significant cathedral places of England. The sacred frame at Carlisle Cathedral comes from Anglican or historic Western Christian...
Carn Ingli
Newport, Wales, United Kingdom
Rising above the ancient town of Newport in Pembrokeshire, Carn Ingli takes its name from the 6th-century saint Brynach, who climbed to this rocky summit to pray and there...
Catedral de Chihuahua (Cathedral of Chihuahua)
Chihuahua (city), Chihuahua (city), Chihuahua, Mexico
Google Places, Wikidata, the supplied encyclopedic record, and a rights-cleared exact-subject image converge on the same place....
Catedral Metropolitana de Belém
Belém, Pará, Brazil
Catedral Metropolitana de Belém, also called Catedral da Sé, is the Roman Catholic mother church of the Archdiocese of Belém and the fixed departure anchor of the main...
Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis in St. At Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, louis, Missouri, belongs within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine
St. Augustine, Florida, United States
Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine in St. At Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine, augustine, Florida, belongs within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Cathedral of Lugo
Lugo, Lugo, Spain
Lugo Cathedral has kept the consecrated Host exposed on its altar, day and night, without interruption, for longer than anyone can fully document....
Cathedral of Menorca
Ciutadella de Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
The Cathedral of Menorca stands in the old town of Ciutadella, its Catalan Gothic nave begun in 1300 on the site of the city's principal mosque....
Cathedral of Murcia
Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Seat of the Diocese of Cartagena since 1291, the Cathedral of Murcia rises on the foundations of the city's former Great Mosque and holds, beneath its main altar, the...
Cathedral of Our Lady of Amiens
Amiens, Somme, France
Amiens Cathedral rose in a single generation—an audacious act of faith made stone....
Cathedral of Saint Anastasia, Zadar
Zadar, Zadar, Zadar County, Croatia
Cathedral of Saint Anastasia, Zadar is a documented cathedral in Zadar, Croatia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Cathedral of Saint James, Šibenik
Šibenik, Šibenik, Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia
Cathedral of Saint James, Šibenik is a documented cathedral in Šibenik, Croatia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Cathedral of Saint Tryphon, Kotor
Kotor, Kotor, Kotor Municipality, Montenegro
Cathedral of Saint Tryphon, Kotor is a documented cathedral in Kotor, Montenegro, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Cathedral of Santa Maria of Ibiza
Eivissa, Balearic Islands, Spain
The Cathedral of Santa Maria of Ibiza stands at the highest point of Dalt Vila, Ibiza's fortified old town....
Cathedral of St Emeram
Nitra, Nitra, Nitra Region, Slovakia
Cathedral of St Emeram is a documented cathedral in Nitra, Slovakia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
New York, New York, United States
Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, New York, belongs within Episcopal Christianity. At Cathedral of St....
Cathedral of St. Julian, Le Mans
Le Mans, Sarthe, France
Before Le Mans was a racing city, it was a cathedral city. The Cathedral of Saint Julian possesses some of France's finest medieval stained glass—windows that have...
Cathedral of Syracuse
Syracuse (Siracusa), Syracuse, Italy
In the heart of Syracuse, Doric columns from a fifth-century BC Greek temple rise within the walls of a Baroque cathedral....
Cathedral of the Assumption
Victoria, Malta
The Cathedral of the Assumption crowns the ancient citadel of Victoria, the capital of Gozo, on a hilltop that has been consecrated ground since long before the word...
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen (Rouen Cathedral)
Rouen, Rouen, Normandie (Seine-Maritime), France
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen (Rouen Cathedral) is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Rouen, Rouen, Normandie (Seine-Maritime), France, not as a route label...
Cathédrale Notre-Dame-du-Puy
Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, France
On Mont Anis, where a sick woman once lay upon a dolmen and was healed by the Virgin's grace, one of Europe's oldest Marian sanctuaries rises in Romanesque splendor....
Cathédrale Saint-Lazare d'Autun
Autun, Saône-et-Loire, France
Built between 1120 and 1146 to shelter the relics of Lazarus of Bethany, Autun Cathedral carries one of the most concentrated programmes of Romanesque sculpture in Europe....
Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, Rieti
Rieti, Rieti, Italy
The Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta has anchored Christian worship in Rieti since at least the sixth century....
Cave of Saint John of Rila
Rila Monastery, Kyustendil Province, Bulgaria
Cave of Saint John of Rila is a documented sacred site in Rila Monastery, Kyustendil Province, Bulgaria, connected with Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity....
Cave of the Seven Sleepers, Jordan
Al Rajib, Amman, Jordan
In the village of ar-Rajib east of Amman, a small rock-cut cave holds a cluster of stone sarcophagi and, above its mouth, a mosque....
Celldömölk Pilgrimage Church
Celldömölk, Celldömölk, Vas County, Hungary
Celldömölk Pilgrimage Church is a documented church in Celldömölk, Hungary, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Certosa di Trisulti
Collepardo, Frosinone, Italy
For seven centuries, Carthusian monks kept strict silence and solitude at this remote charterhouse in the Ernici mountains, developing a celebrated pharmacy from the...
Červený Kláštor Monastery
Červený Kláštor, Červený Kláštor, Prešov Region, Slovakia
Červený Kláštor Monastery is a documented monastery in Červený Kláštor, Slovakia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Cetinje Monastery
Cetinje, Cetinje, Old Royal Capital Cetinje, Montenegro
Cetinje Monastery is a documented monastery in Cetinje, Montenegro, held within Eastern Orthodox Christianity....
Chapel and wellspring of St. Adalbert
Bylany, Central Bohemian, Czechia
In open fields between two Czech villages, a small 19th-century chapel shelters a spring that has flowed since before memory. Dedicated to St....
Chapel of Grace (Gnadenkapelle), Altötting
Altötting, Bavaria, Germany
At the centre of Altötting's broad Kapellplatz stands the Gnadenkapelle, the Chapel of Grace....
Chapel of Our Lady of the Crag, Knaresborough, England
Knaresborough, England, United Kingdom
Hewn from sandstone cliffs above the River Nidd in 1408, the Chapel of Our Lady of the Crag stands as one of Britain's oldest wayside shrines....
Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
Paris, Paris, France
The Chapelle Notre-Dame de la Médaille Miraculeuse stands at 140 rue du Bac in Paris, inside the motherhouse of the Daughters of Charity....
Chapel of Rochegude
Haute-Loire, France
Perched at around 960 metres above the Allier gorges, the small twelfth-century chapel of Saint-Jacques de Rochegude marks a dramatic threshold on the Via Podiensis, where...
Chapel of Saint Mary Magdalene
Haute-Loire, France
Above Monistrol-d'Allier, a neoclassical facade seals a basalt rock cavity to form a troglodyte chapel dedicated to Mary Magdalene, the saint of grottoes and penitence....
Chapel of Saint-Michel d’Aiguilhe
Haute-Loire, France
Set atop a sheer volcanic spire reached by 268 rock-cut steps, this small Romanesque chapel has drawn worship across millennia, from a prehistoric dolmen to a Roman cult...
Chapel of Saint-Salvayre
Alet-les-Bains, Aude, France
At the end of a rutted road climbing from Alet-les-Bains, a small chapel sits at the edge of sky and mountain....
Chapel of Soyartze
Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
Crowning a hill at about 286 metres above Uhart-Mixe, this small open chapel is a Marian sanctuary descended from a twelfth-century Premonstratensian foundation....
Chapel of the Apparition — Holy Sepulchre
Old City, Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel
Tucked into the north transept of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Chapel of the Apparition is small but theologically immense....
Chapel of the Apparitions (Our Lady of Fátima)
Part of Fatima
Fátima, Santarém, Portugal
The Chapel of the Apparitions stands at the precise location where the Virgin Mary appeared to three Portuguese shepherd children in 1917....
Chapelle de Picpus in Paris
Paris, Paris, France
In a quiet corner of eastern Paris lies Picpus, where 1,306 victims of the Revolution's final weeks lie in mass graves....
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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, Armenia, Italy, United States.
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?
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