Home›Christian Sites›Originated InBrowse ByOriginated InThis page groups sacred sites by the story that first marks them as holy. Wikipedia notes that "as described in the Bible's Book of Exodus, Moses was instructed to remove his shoes before approaching the burning bush, as the ground was considered holy." Browsing this way lets a visitor see the founding story behind why a given site was set apart in the first place.FactsLearn MoreOriginated InSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedPlaces of the Gospel narrative in the Holy Land, the tombs of apostles and saints, and the cathedrals, monasteries and shrines that grew from them. The group spans Catholic, Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Protestant Christianity, whose accounts of what makes a place holy differ sharply: the Reformation broke with relics and pilgrimage, so some members are holy to some Christians only. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedSacred Sites 1Learn MoreThe holy places of Christianity This group gathers the sacred sites of Christianity, the most numerous in the atlas, reflecting two thousand years of church-building, pilgrimage and the veneration of holy places across the globe. Christian sacred geography centres above all on the scenes of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus in the Holy Land, and radiates outward to the tombs of apostles and saints, great cathedrals and pilgrimage shrines. The browser will find sites bound to the Gospel narrative in Jerusalem and the Holy Land, the apostolic centres of Rome and beyond, and the pilgrimage destinations that drew the medieval and modern faithful. The entries describe each place's religious associations and history across the different Christian traditions.Originated InFilter Results17 entriesModern AreaAllEgypt (1)France, Germany, the Low Countries (1)From Senegal and Mauritania east through Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Niger to Nigeria. (1)Greece (1)Ireland, Britain, France (1)Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria (1)Italy (1)Mexico, Guatemala (1)Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary and Austria, with adjoining parts of Germany, Slovenia and Romania. (1)Russia, Ukraine, Poland, the Balkans (1)Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar. (1)Spain, Portugal, southern France (1)The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, with the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland. (1)United States and Canada (1)Principal Religious TraditionsAllAncient Egyptian religion (1)Ancient Greek religion (1)Aztec religion (1)Celtic polytheism (1)Christianity (3)Coptic Christianity (1)Eastern Orthodox Christianity (2)Indigenous North American traditions (1)Insular Christianity in its Irish monastic form, the Roman observance that displaced its calendar and tonsure after Whitby in 664, the separate Reformation settlements of each nation, and the pre-Christian material recoverable from the Irish and Welsh manuscript traditions. (1)Islam (3)Judaism (2)Latin Catholicism; the Slavonic rite Cyril and Methodius brought to Moravia; Hussite and later Protestant reform; Ashkenazi Judaism, whose largest communities were here until the Holocaust; and Hasidism, which began in the southeast of the region in the eighteenth century. (1)Maya religion (1)Protestantism (1)Roman Catholicism (5)Roman religion (1)Slavic paganism (1)Visigothic and then Latin Christianity; the Islam of al-Andalus, under which the peninsula was among the great centres of learning in the Muslim world; and the Sephardic Jewish community, which produced much of medieval Jewish philosophy and Kabbalah before the expulsion of 1492. (1)Vodun among the Fon and Ewe and orisha worship among the Yoruba, both of which crossed the Atlantic; the Akan, Igbo, Serer, Dogon and Mande traditions of the wider region; Islam, established in the Sahel from the medieval empires onward and carried by the Tijani and Qadiri orders; and Christianity, including the Aladura and other African-founded churches. (1)Sacred and Liturgical LanguagesAllAncient and Koine Greek (1)Ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and Arabic (1)Arabic for Islam and for the Timbuktu manuscript tradition, with African languages also written in the Arabic script as Ajami; the ritual registers of Yoruba, Fon and their neighbours carry the older traditions, and the Ifa corpus is transmitted in Yoruba. (1)Church Slavonic (Old Church Slavonic), Greek, and Latin (1)Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Arabic (1)Indigenous North American languages and English (1)Latin (2)Latin for the Catholic church, Old Church Slavonic for the Moravian mission, Czech and German for the reform movements, and Hebrew, Aramaic and Yiddish for the Jewish communities. (1)Latin for the church, Arabic for al-Andalus, and Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic for the Jewish communities; Ladino carried the Sephardic liturgy into exile after 1492. (1)Latin for the medieval church, Old and Middle Irish and Middle Welsh for the vernacular religious literature, and Manx and Scottish Gaelic in their own devotional traditions. (1)Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew (1)Nahuatl, Classic Maya, and Latin (1)Old Irish and Latin (1)BrowseCompareBritish IslesOriginated In7 entriesBritish Isles and GaulOriginated In8 entriesCentral EuropeOriginated In1 entryEastern EuropeOriginated In4 entriesEgyptOriginated In1 entryGermanyOriginated In1 entryGreeceOriginated In3 entriesIberiaOriginated In5 entriesIberia and Southern FranceOriginated In5 entriesItalyOriginated In7 entriesThe LevantOriginated In7 entriesMesoamericaOriginated In1 entryNorth AmericaOriginated In8 entriesTurkeyOriginated In2 entriesUnited StatesOriginated In8 entriesWest AfricaOriginated In1 entryWestern EuropeOriginated In8 entriesSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Pilgrimage in Medieval Englandtier 1Diana Webb, Hambledon and London, 2000Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.