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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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Chapelle du Saint-Pilon
Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume, Var, France
At 994 meters atop the Sainte-Baume massif, a small stone chapel marks the legendary spot where angels lifted Mary Magdalene seven times daily for divine sustenance....
Chapelle Notre-Dame de Bonne Délivrance
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
In a quiet Neuilly street stands the chapel of the Sisters of Saint Thomas of Villeneuve, guardians of the Black Madonna of Paris....
Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, France
Chartres Cathedral rises from the wheat fields of France as medieval Christianity's most complete surviving statement....
Chelmsford Cathedral
Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom
Chelmsford Cathedral is a nationally or regionally important cathedral place in England....
Chêne à Guillotin
Concoret, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
On the edge of Broceliande forest stands an oak that may be a thousand years old, its hollow trunk blackened with age yet still alive....
Cherepish Monastery
Lyutibrod, Vratsa Province, Bulgaria
Cherepish Monastery is a documented monastery in Lyutibrod, Vratsa Province, Bulgaria, connected with Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity....
Chester Cathedral
Chester, England, United Kingdom
Chester Cathedral stands in England as a major cathedral site. At Chester Cathedral, Anglican or historic Western Christian tradition provides the public sacred context....
Chichester Cathedral
Chichester, England, United Kingdom
Chichester Cathedral belongs among the significant cathedral places of England. The sacred frame at Chichester Cathedral comes from Anglican or historic Western Christian...
Chiesa di Nostra Signora di Tergu
Zelgu/Tergu, Sassari, Italy
In the Sardinian countryside south of Castelsardo, a church of wine-red trachyte and white limestone has stood for nearly a thousand years....
Chiesa di San Domenico
Rieti, Rieti, Italy
In 1229, four women wishing to live as Franciscan nuns received the house of blessed Angelo Tancredi, one of Saint Francis's earliest companions, in the city of Rieti....
Chiesa di San Pietro della Ienca
San Pietro della Ienca, L'Aquila, Italy
On the slopes of the Gran Sasso, a small Romanesque church stands in a hamlet that time nearly forgot....
Chiesa di Santa Chiara
Rieti, Rieti, Italy
In 1229, four women wishing to live as Franciscan nuns received the house of blessed Angelo Tancredi, one of Saint Francis's earliest companions, in the city of Rieti....
Chilham
Chilham, England, United Kingdom
St Mary's, Chilham, is an active Church of England parish church on the Pilgrims' Way, its congregation traditionally dated to the 7th century and documented in the...
Chitakhevi Saint George Monastery (Green Monastery)
Borjomi, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia
Chitakhevi Saint George Monastery (Green Monastery) is a documented monastery in Borjomi, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia, connected with Georgian Orthodox Christianity....
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
Dublin 8, County Dublin, Ireland
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin stands in Republic of Ireland as a major pilgrimage site....
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford belongs among the significant cathedral places of England....
Christ Church Gate
Part of Canterbury Cathedral
Canterbury, England, United Kingdom
Christ Church Gate is the ceremonial entrance to Canterbury Cathedral precincts and the final threshold of the Pilgrim's Way from Winchester....
Christ Church, Shooters Hill
London, England, United Kingdom
Perched near the summit of the highest point in the London Borough of Greenwich, Christ Church stands on the ancient Watling Street — the Roman road that carried medieval...
Chrysoskalitissa Monastery
Chrisoskalitissa, Crete, Greece
Chrysoskalitissa Monastery stands on a rock promontory thirty-five meters above the southwestern coast of Crete, overlooking the Libyan Sea toward Africa....
Church and Monastery of Saint Francis, Zadar
Zadar, Zadar, Zadar County, Croatia
Church and Monastery of Saint Francis, Zadar is a documented monastery in Zadar, Croatia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Church of Bom Jesus da Cruz
Barcelos, Braga, Portugal
In December 1504, a black cross reportedly appeared in the earth of Barcelos's fairground, spreading until it formed a shape that, according to local memory, no shovel...
Church of Guadalupe, San Cristobal
San Cristóbal, Chiapas, Mexico
Rising above San Cristobal de las Casas on Cerro de Guadalupe, this 19th-century church draws devotees who climb its 79 stone steps to honor Mexico's most beloved sacred...
Church of L’Hôpital-Saint-Blaise
Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
The sole survivor of a twelfth-century pilgrim hospital, this church on the Béarn–Basque border fuses Romanesque solidity with Hispano-Moorish artistry — pierced stone...
Church of Nasbinals
Lozère, France
On the high plateau of the Aubrac, the Romanesque church of Nasbinals offered pilgrims shelter before the most feared crossing on the Le Puy road....
Church of Nossa Senhora da Agonia
Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Built to house an image installed in 1674, the Church of Nossa Senhora da Agonia grew from a small chapel dedicated to fishermen's fear of shipwreck into the anchor of one...
Church of Notre-Dame, Dijon
Dijon, Côte-d’Or, France
Notre-Dame de Dijon is the church that contains the venerated image of Notre-Dame de Bon-Espoir....
Church of Our Lady of Good Repos
Montfavet, Vaucluse, France
In the village of Montfavet, outside Avignon, a Gothic church carries the name its cardinal founder chose in 1341: Notre-Dame de Bon Repos, Our Lady of Good Rest....
Church of Our Lady of Krasno
Krasno, Lika-Senj, Croatia
In the Velebit Mountains, at approximately 800 meters above sea level, a church stands at the site where, according to a legend dating to 1219, shepherds discovered a...
Church of Our Lady of Peace on Kurešček
Kurešček, Kurešček, Ig Municipality / Central Slovenia, Slovenia
Church of Our Lady of Peace on Kurešček is a documented church in Kurešček, Slovenia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Church of Our Lady of the Island, Solin
Solin, Solin, Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia
Church of Our Lady of the Island, Solin is a documented church in Solin, Croatia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Church of Our Lady of the Recollects
Verviers, Liege, Belgium
The Church of Our Lady of the Recollects in Verviers guards one of Belgium's most venerated Black Virgins....
Church of Our Lady of the Rosary of the Renewal
Boyacá, Boyacá, Colombia
In the center of Chiquinquira, a modest parish church stands on the exact spot where the most significant miracle in Colombian Catholic history occurred....
Church of Our Lady with the Golden Heart, Beauraing
Beauraing, Namur, Belgium
Beauraing is one of two Church-approved Marian apparition sites in Belgium. Between November 1932 and January 1933, five children of the Voisin and Degeimbre families...
Church of Our Miraculous Lady, Sarkani
Lendžu pagasts, Rēzekne Municipality, Latvia
In a quiet rural parish near Rezekne in eastern Latvia, Sarkani Church holds a painting of the Virgin Mary long revered as miraculous and credited with healing grace....
Church of Panagia Chrisopigi, Sifnos Island
Φάρος, South Aegean, Greece
Panagia Chrysopigi sits on a rocky islet off the southern coast of Sifnos, connected to the island by a slender bridge....
Church of Pasiene
Pasienes pagasts, Ludza, Latvia
In far-eastern Latgale, near the Russian frontier, the Church of St Dominic at Pasiene stands as one of the finest late-Baroque sacred buildings in the region....
Church of Perse
Aveyron, France
On the approach to Espalion, the Romanesque church of Perse was a priory of the great Abbey of Conques, dedicated like its mother house to Sainte-Foy....
Church of Saint Anthony of Lisbon
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Beside Lisbon's cathedral, this Baroque-Rococo church stands where centuries of local and ecclesiastical tradition place the 1195 birth of Fernando de Bulhões — later...
Church of Saint Anthony of Padua, Istanbul
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Rising in red brick along Istanbul's busiest avenue, the Church of Saint Anthony of Padua has served the city's Catholic community since 1725....
Church of Saint Blaise, Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Croatia
Church of Saint Blaise, Dubrovnik is a documented church in Dubrovnik, Croatia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Church of Saint Euphemia, Rovinj
Rovinj-Rovigno, Rovinj-Rovigno, Istria County, Croatia
Church of Saint Euphemia, Rovinj is a documented church in Rovinj-Rovigno, Croatia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....
Church of Saint Faith of Bains
Haute-Loire, France
On the early stages of the Via Podiensis stands the church of Sainte-Foy at Bains, a twelfth-century Romanesque building of volcanic stone....
Church of Saint George, Cairo
Mit Damsis wa Kafr Abu Girg, Cairo, Egypt
The Church of Saint George in Old Cairo rises from the foundations of a Roman tower, its circular form rare in the Christian world....
Church of Saint George, Kurbinovo
Kurbinovo, Kurbinovo, Resen Municipality, Prespa, North Macedonia
Church of Saint George, Kurbinovo is a documented church in Kurbinovo, North Macedonia, held within Eastern Orthodox Christianity....
Church of Saint George, Staro Nagoričane
Staro Nagoričane, Staro Nagoričane, Staro Nagoričane Municipality, North Macedonia
Church of Saint George, Staro Nagoričane is a documented church in Staro Nagoričane, North Macedonia, held within Eastern Orthodox Christianity....
Church of Saint James the Greater (Apostle)
Medjugorje, Herzegovina-Neretva, Bosnia and Herzegovina
In a small Herzegovinian village, a parish church dedicated to the patron saint of pilgrims became the center of one of the most visited Marian pilgrimage sites on earth....
Church of Saint James, Moissac
Tarn-et-Garonne, France
The Church of Saint-Jacques is Moissac's parish dedicated to Saint James the Greater, the apostle whose shrine at Compostela is the Camino's destination....
Church of Saint John at Kaneo
Ohrid, Ohrid, Ohrid Municipality, North Macedonia
Church of Saint John at Kaneo is a documented church in Ohrid, North Macedonia, held within Eastern Orthodox Christianity....
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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.
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