Christianity

Church of the Holy Cross

Rauma, Satakunta, Finland

Rauma's Church of the Holy Cross is a medieval fieldstone church first associated with a Franciscan friary and now serving a Lutheran parish....

Church of the Holy Miracle of Santarém

Santarém, Santarém, Portugal

In the historic center of Santarém, a small Gothic-to-Renaissance church — now the Santuário do Santíssimo Milagre, formerly the parish church of Santo Estêvão — houses a...

Church of the Holy Mother of God Perivleptos

Ohrid, Ohrid, Ohrid Municipality, North Macedonia

Church of the Holy Mother of God Perivleptos is a documented church in Ohrid, North Macedonia, held within Eastern Orthodox Christianity....

Church of the Holy Mother of God, Bjni

Bjni, Kotayk, Armenia

Church of the Holy Mother of God, Bjni is a documented church in Bjni, Kotayk, Armenia, connected with Armenian Apostolic Christianity....

Church of the Holy Rood, Holybourne

Holybourne, England, United Kingdom

The Church of the Holy Rood stands beside the spring that gave Holybourne its name — haligburna, Old English for sacred stream....

Church of the Holy Spirit at Žehra

Žehra, Žehra, Košice Region, Slovakia

Church of the Holy Spirit at Žehra is a documented church in Žehra, Slovakia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....

Church of the Holy Trinity at Hrastovlje

Hrastovlje, Hrastovlje, Koper Municipality / Coastal-Karst, Slovenia

Church of the Holy Trinity at Hrastovlje is a documented church in Hrastovlje, Slovenia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....

Church of the Holy Trinity Saccargia (Basilica della Santissima Trinita de Saccargia)

Codronzanu/Codrongianos, Sassari, Italy

The Basilica della Santissima Trinità di Saccargia rises from the pastoral Sardinian countryside in dramatic stripes of black basalt and white limestone....

Church of the Mother of God on Bled Island

Bled Island, Bled Island, Bled Municipality / Upper Carniola, Slovenia

Church of the Mother of God on Bled Island is a documented church in Bled Island, Slovenia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....

Church of the Mother of God on Šmarna Gora

Šmarna Gora, Šmarna Gora, Ljubljana / Central Slovenia, Slovenia

Church of the Mother of God on Šmarna Gora is a documented church in Šmarna Gora, Slovenia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....

Church of the Name of the Virgin Mary, Křtiny, Czech Republic

Křtiny, Křtiny, South Moravian Region, Czechia

Pilgrimage Church of the Name of the Virgin Mary, Křtiny is a documented church in Křtiny, South Moravian Region, Czechia, connected with Roman Catholic Christianity....

Church of the Pilgrim Virgin, Pontevedra

Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Spain

Built between 1778 and 1794, the Church of the Pilgrim Virgin takes the shape of a scallop shell — the emblem carried by every walker of the Camino de Santiago....

Church of the Presentation of the Theotokos, Kučevište

Kučevište, Kučevište, Čučer-Sandevo Municipality, Skopje Region, North Macedonia

Church of the Presentation of the Theotokos, Kučevište is a documented church in Kučevište, North Macedonia, held within Eastern Orthodox Christianity....

Church of the Transfiguration Mount Tabor

Part of Mt. Tabor

Shibli - Umm el Ghanam, Northern District, Israel

At the summit of Mount Tabor, the Franciscan Basilica of the Transfiguration stands over nearly two millennia of Christian worship....

Church of the Virgin Mary Victorious, Kazokiskes

Kazokiškės, Elektrėnai, 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, Dakahlia, 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, Liege, 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...

Church of the Visitation of Mary on Sladka Gora

Sladka Gora, Sladka Gora, Šmarje pri Jelšah Municipality / Savinja, Slovenia

Church of the Visitation of Mary on Sladka Gora is a documented church in Sladka Gora, Slovenia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....

Clairvaux Abbey

Ville-sous-la-Ferté, Grand Est, France

Clairvaux Abbey was founded in 1115 and became inseparable from Bernard of Clairvaux's Cistercian reform....

Cleeve Abbey

Washford, England, United Kingdom

Cleeve Abbey stands in England as a major monastic site. At Cleeve Abbey, Christian monastic tradition provides the public sacred context....

Clonard Monastery

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Clonard Monastery is a nationally or regionally important pilgrimage place in Northern Ireland....

Clonfert Cathedral

County Galway, County Galway, Ireland

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

Co-Cathedral of Santa María, Cáceres

Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain

Co-Cathedral of Santa María, Cáceres is a living co-cathedral and historic pilgrimage church in Cáceres, Spain....

Cocev Kamen

Šopsko Rudare, Šopsko Rudare, Kratovo Municipality, Northeastern North Macedonia, North Macedonia

Cocev Kamen is a documented archaeological site in Šopsko Rudare, North Macedonia, interpreted through ancient ritual and archaeological evidence....

Coimbra New Cathedral

Coimbra, Coimbra, 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, 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, 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

Gers, France

The Collegiate Church of Saint-Pierre rises over La Romieu, a Gascon village founded as a sheltered waystation on the road to Santiago....

Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Assunta, San Gimignano

San Gimignano, Siena, Italy

San Gimignano's Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Assunta is the town's principal active Catholic church and a sacred landmark on the Via Francigena....

Collegiate Church of St Servatius, Quedlinburg

Quedlinburg, Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Collegiate Church of St Servatius, Quedlinburg is a documented church in Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, connected with Roman Catholic Christianity....

Cologne Cathedral

Köln, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Cologne Cathedral rises from the Rhine plain in twin spires that took six centuries to complete....

Concattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, Sutri

Sutri, Sutri, Lazio, Italy

The record concerns a living church and pilgrimage site within Roman Catholic Christianity....

Condom Cathedral

Gers, France

Condom Cathedral, the Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, rises over the Gascon town above the Baïse river....

Cong Abbey

Cong, Mayo, Ireland

Cong Abbey is a nationally or regionally important monastic place in Republic of Ireland. Cong Abbey is interpreted here through Christian monastic tradition....

Convent of Christ

Tomar, Santarém, 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, 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, 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, Burgos, 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, 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....

Corvey Abbey Westwork

Höxter, Höxter, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Corvey Abbey Westwork is a documented monastery in Höxter, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, connected with Historical Latin Christianity....

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....

Court Church at Ćipur

Cetinje, Cetinje, Old Royal Capital Cetinje, Montenegro

Court Church at Ćipur is a documented church in Cetinje, Montenegro, held within Eastern Orthodox Christianity....

Coventry Cathedral

Coventry, England, United Kingdom

Coventry Cathedral stands in England as a major cathedral site. At Coventry Cathedral, Anglican or historic Western Christian tradition provides the public sacred context....

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....

Crna Reka Monastery

Ribariće, Ribariće / Tutin, Raška District, Serbia

Crna Reka Monastery is a documented monastery in Ribariće, Serbia, held within Eastern Orthodox Christianity....

Croagh Patrick

Murrisk, County Mayo, Ireland

Croagh Patrick is a sacred mountain, penitential route, and ceremonial pilgrimage landscape in Murrisk, Ireland....