Sacred Places
51 places found
ChristianityAlbenga Cathedral
Albenga · Italy · church
The medieval cathedral of Albenga on Liguria's western coast, dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel, its banded brick campanile rising over a nave first raised around 1100 on the foundations of a church from the turn of the fifth century.
ChristianityAlexander Nevsky Cathedral
Sofia · Bulgaria · church
Sofia's golden-domed patriarchal cathedral, raised by the whole Bulgarian people as a memorial to the Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Moldavian, Finnish and Romanian soldiers who died in the 1877-1878 war that ended five centuries of Ottoman rule.
ChristianityAltamura Cathedral
Altamura · Italy · church
A thirteenth-century 'palatine' cathedral in the Apulian hill town of Altamura, raised at the order of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, its twin Gothic bell towers and carved rose window rising over the old town's main square.
ChristianityBasilica of Our Lady of Good Health
Velankanni · India · church
White Gothic Marian basilica on the Coromandel shore where Our Lady is held to have appeared to two Tamil boys in the 16th century. Called the Lourdes of the East, it draws millions of pilgrims, most of them Hindu and Muslim, to Annai Velankanni, the Mother of Good Health.
ChristianityBasilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Mexico City · Mexico · church
The most visited Marian shrine in the world, built at the foot of Tepeyac hill where Our Lady appeared to St. Juan Diego in 1531; his tilma bearing her image hangs above the altar of the circular basilica of 1976.
ChristianityBolnisi Sioni
· Georgia · church
A late-fifth-century Georgian Orthodox basilica in Bolnisi, the oldest surviving church building in Georgia, famed for its early Georgian-script inscriptions.
ChristianityCanterbury Cathedral
Canterbury · United Kingdom · cathedral
The mother church of the worldwide Anglican Communion and seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, founded by St. Augustine in 597, where Archbishop Thomas Becket was martyred in 1170 and a single candle now marks the site of his vanished shrine.
Christianitycathedral Basilica of St. Cyriacus
Ancona · Italy · church
The Roman Catholic cathedral of the Archdiocese of Ancona-Osimo, rising on the Guasco hill above the city's harbour, where Romanesque stonework, Byzantine planning, and Gothic ornament meet in the church dedicated to Saint Cyriacus.
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.