Sacred Places
584 places found
ChristianityCathedral Basilica of St. Mary
Oradea · Romania · church
The Roman Catholic cathedral of the Diocese of Oradea, dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the largest Baroque church built in Romania, its ochre facade and twin black-domed towers rising beside the Bishop's Palace at the heart of the city.
ChristianityCathedral of Ani
Kars · Turkey · church
The largest standing building of Ani, the ruined medieval capital of Bagratid Armenia, this eleventh-century Armenian Apostolic cathedral stands on the Turkish side of the Turkish-Armenian border with its dome long fallen, a UNESCO World Heritage monument since 2016.
ChristianityCathedral of Christ the Saviour
Banja Luka · Bosnia and Herzegovina · church
The Serbian Orthodox cathedral of the Eparchy of Banja Luka, its five gilded domes and banded stonework rising over the city's central square, rebuilt at the turn of the twenty-first century after its predecessor was demolished by the wartime Ustaše regime in 1941.
ChristianityCathedral of Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela · Spain · cathedral
The cathedral over the tomb of St. James the Apostle, the goal of the Camino de Santiago, where pilgrims from every road in Europe arrive to embrace the Apostle and watch the Botafumeiro fly.
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.
Multi-faithCave of the Patriarchs (Ibrahimi Mosque)
Hebron · Palestine · shrine
A Herodian stone enclosure in Hebron's Old City holding the traditional graves of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob and Leah, revered as Me'arat HaMachpela by Jews and as the Ibrahimi Mosque by Muslims, and divided since 1994 into a synagogue and a mosque under one roof.
TaoismCebu Taoist Temple
Cebu City · Philippines · temple
High in the Beverly Hills Subdivision of Cebu City, the Cebu Taoist Temple is a multi-tiered sanctuary built in 1972 by the city's Chinese Filipino community, its tiered roofs and Great Wall-style entrance rising above the rooftops of downtown Cebu. Open to worshippers and visitors of every background, it is one of the Philippines' best known centres of Taoist practice.
IslamCentral Mosque (Almaty)
Almaty · Kazakhstan · mosque
Rising above Almaty with a gold-crowned dome and a slender minaret, the Central Mosque is among the largest places of Muslim worship in Kazakhstan, built in 1999 on a site where a mosque has stood since 1890.
SikhismCentral Sikh Temple
Singapore · Singapore · gurdwara
At the junction of Towner Road and Serangoon Road in Kallang, the Central Sikh Temple is Singapore's principal gurdwara, its gold-crowned dome rising over a congregation whose roots in the city reach back to 1912. A seven-storey community building stands beside it, carrying the gurdwara's life beyond the prayer hall into daily service and learning.
HinduismChandranath Temple
· Bangladesh · temple
A celebrated Śākta pīṭha atop Chandranāth Hill in Chittagong, Bangladesh, traditionally identified as the place where the right arm of Devī Satī fell to the earth.
BuddhismChaneti Buddhist Stupa
Chaneti · India · stupa
Near the village of Chaneti in Haryana's Yamunanagar district, not far from the ancient city-site of Sugh, the Chaneti Buddhist Stupa is a hemispherical mound of fired brick raised in the third century BC. It is one of the stupas the Chinese pilgrim-monk Hiuen Tsang recorded around the ancient city of Shrughna, and it survives today as a quiet, ASI-conserved monument rather than an active place of worship.
HinduismChangu Narayan Temple
Changunarayan · Nepal · temple
A Licchavi-era hilltop sanctuary in Bhaktapur District dedicated to Lord Vishnu, home to the oldest dated inscription found in Nepal (464 CE) and a UNESCO World Heritage courtyard of medieval stone and wood carving.