Sacred Places
7 places found
ChristianityEisenstadt Cathedral
Eisenstadt · Austria · church
The Roman Catholic cathedral of the Diocese of Eisenstadt in Burgenland, Austria, the Dom St. Martin honours Saint Martin of Tours in a Gothic hall church first fortified against Ottoman attack in 1460 and raised to cathedral rank in 1960.
ChristianityGraz Cathedral
Graz · Austria · church
Graz Cathedral, the Dom St Aegidius, is the Roman Catholic cathedral of the Diocese of Graz-Seckau, raised as Emperor Frederick III's court church in the fifteenth century and dedicated to Saint Giles, patron of Graz. Its plain Gothic exterior of brick and limestone opens onto a nave crowned with Baroque altars and gilded statuary.
ChristianityInnsbruck Cathedral
Innsbruck · Austria · church
Innsbruck Cathedral, the Dom zu St. Jakob, is the Baroque cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Innsbruck, raised between 1717 and 1724 on the site of a much older parish church in the heart of the Tyrolean capital. Dedicated to Saint James the Great, it holds beneath its twin domed towers one of the most venerated Marian paintings in Christendom.
ChristianityKlagenfurt Cathedral
Klagenfurt · Austria · church
The cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt in Carinthia, Austria, raised as a Protestant church in 1581 and now the city's principal parish church.
ChristianityNew Cathedral, Linz
Linz · Austria · church
The neo-Gothic Roman Catholic cathedral of Linz, Austria, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of Mary and the largest church building in the country.
ChristianitySalzburg Cathedral
Salzburg · Austria · church
The Baroque seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg in Austria, its twin-towered marble facade rising over the Domplatz above the font in which the infant Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was baptised.
ChristianitySt. Pölten Cathedral
St. Pölten · Austria · church
The Roman Catholic cathedral at the heart of St. Pölten, Lower Austria, its Romanesque bones reclothed in Baroque splendour, and the mother church of the Diocese of St. Pölten since 1785.