Sacred Places
51 places found
ChristianityCathedral of the Most Holy Conception
Concepción · Chile · church
The Roman Catholic cathedral of the Archdiocese of Concepción, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, its neo-Romanesque towers rising over the Plaza de la Independencia since the building opened for worship in 1964.
ChristianityChurch of the Holy Sepulchre
Jerusalem · Israel · church
The church of the Old City of Jerusalem that holds both Golgotha and the tomb of Christ under one roof, shared by six Christian communities under the Status Quo, its doors opened each dawn by Muslim custodian families.
ChristianityEichstätt Cathedral
Eichstätt · Germany · church
The Catholic cathedral of the Diocese of Eichstätt in Bavaria, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Saint Willibald and the Holy Saviour, its core raised on the site of Saint Willibald's own eighth-century foundation and still holding his tomb.
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.
ChristianityEssen Minster
Essen · Germany · church
The Roman Catholic cathedral of the Diocese of Essen in western Germany, this Gothic hall church grew from Essen Abbey, founded around 845 by Altfrid, Bishop of Hildesheim, and today shelters the Golden Madonna, the oldest fully sculptural image of Mary north of the Alps.
ChristianityFlorence Cathedral (Santa Maria del Fiore)
Florence · Italy · cathedral
The cathedral of Florence, dedicated to Our Lady as St. Mary of the Flower, crowned by Brunelleschi's dome of 1436, still the largest masonry dome in the world.
ChristianityFreiburg Minster
Freiburg im Breisgau · Germany · church
Freiburg Minster is the Catholic cathedral of the Archdiocese of Freiburg in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, its 116-metre Gothic tower long called one of the most beautiful spires in Christendom. Dedicated to Our Lady, it has stood at the heart of the city's old market square since the thirteenth century.
ChristianityFreising Cathedral
Freising · Germany · church
Freising Cathedral, the Mariendom, is a Romanesque basilica on the Domberg above the old episcopal town of Freising in Bavaria, dedicated to Saint Mary and Saint Corbinian and serving today as co-cathedral of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.
ChristianityFulda Cathedral
Fulda · Germany · church
Fulda Cathedral, dedicated to Christ the Saviour, is the Baroque cathedral of the Diocese of Fulda in Hesse, Germany, built as the abbey church of Fulda Abbey and the resting place of Saint Boniface, apostle to the Germans.
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.
ChristianityHoly Rosary Cathedral
Kaohsiung · Taiwan · church
The oldest Catholic church in Taiwan and the mother church of the Archdiocese of Kaohsiung, raised near the Love River on the site of the straw mission that Spanish Dominican friars built there in 1859.
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.