This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
A city entry records why a particular city matters to one or more religious traditions, whether as a pilgrimage destination, the seat of a religious authority, the setting of a founding or formative event, or home to a major community or institution today. Because a single city can hold this kind of significance for several different traditions at once, often for different and unrelated reasons, an entry can carry as many linked traditions, events and sites as its history actually supports.
A city is kept distinct from a Sacred Site entry, which covers one specific place whose sanctity is the whole reason it is recorded, a shrine, a temple compound, a particular tomb. A city is the larger urban whole that can contain many such sites within it, along with everything else a city ordinarily contains that has nothing to do with religion at all; the entry here stays focused on the religious layer rather than duplicating a general geography or history reference.
Where a city's religious significance and its present day population, government or economy have grown apart, a small pilgrimage town sustaining an outsized sacred reputation, or a modern capital whose religious history sits beneath centuries of later change, the entry says so, since that gap is frequently part of what makes the city's religious standing worth recording at all.