Home›Christian Sites›Pilgrimage Status›Major pilgrimage destination todayBrowse ByMajor pilgrimage destination todayThis page groups sacred sites by how active they still are as pilgrimage destinations. Wikipedia notes that Santiago de Compostela "remains a significant pilgrimage site, with around 200,000 pilgrims, both secular and Christian, completing the numerous pilgrimage routes to the cathedral in 2012 alone." Browsing this way lets a visitor tell a heavily visited pilgrimage site apart from one now visited only rarely.FactsLearn MoreMajor pilgrimage destination todaySourcesComments (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.Major pilgrimage destination todayFilter Results30 entriesUNESCO World Heritage StatusAllInscribed on the World Heritage List (12)Inscribed on the World Heritage List and on the List in Danger (2)Not Inscribed (11)On a National Tentative List (3)Originated InAllBritish Isles (5)British Isles and Gaul (6)Eastern Europe (2)Egypt (1)Greece (3)Iberia (4)Iberia and Southern France (4)Italy (2)Mesoamerica (1)The Levant (6)Turkey (1)Western Europe (2)Part OfAllDissolution of the Monasteries (1)Origin Period Start YearAll0 (1)325 (1)327 (1)537 (1)548 (1)563 (1)635 (1)712 (1)934 (1)995 (1)1051 (1)1088 (1)1119 (1)1194 (1)1228 (1)1262 (1)1382 (1)1531 (1)1858 (1)1917 (1)Practice StatusAllAccess restricted by its custodians or by law (1)Control of or access to the site is contested (4)In active religious use (25)Revived or reconstructed in the modern era (1)Ruin or archaeological site; the cult has ceased (3)Standing, but maintained as a museum or heritage monument (3)Site TypeAllApparition or vision site (4)Cave sanctuary (natural) (1)Church, cathedral or chapel (17)Monastery or monastic community (10)Mosque (1)Rock-cut or underground sanctuary (1)Sacred grove or forest (1)Sacred mountain, hill or peak (3)Sacred river, lake, spring or sea (1)Sacred rock formation or outcrop (1)Shrine (1)Synagogue (1)Tomb or grave of a holy figure (2)TraditionAllCeltic Paganism (1)Christianity (27)Islam (1)CountryAllEgypt (1)France (3)Greece (3)Israel (5)Italy (2)Mexico (1)Palestine (1)Poland (1)Portugal (1)Spain (2)Turkiye (1)Ukraine (1)United Kingdom (6)BrowseCompareSelect all 30Basilica di Santa Croce in GerusalemmeMajor pilgrimage destination todayCapernaumMajor pilgrimage destination todayCathedral of San Salvador, OviedoMajor pilgrimage destination todayChartres CathedralMajor pilgrimage destination todayDurham CathedralMajor pilgrimage destination todayEinsiedeln AbbeyMajor pilgrimage destination todayFátimaMajor pilgrimage destination todayGethsemaneMajor pilgrimage destination todayGlastonbury AbbeyMajor pilgrimage destination todayGlastonbury TorMajor pilgrimage destination todayHagia SophiaMajor pilgrimage destination todayIonaMajor pilgrimage destination todayJasna GóraMajor pilgrimage destination todayKyiv Pechersk LavraMajor pilgrimage destination todayLindisfarneMajor pilgrimage destination todayLourdesMajor pilgrimage destination todayMeteoraMajor pilgrimage destination todayMont Saint-MichelMajor pilgrimage destination todayMount AthosMajor pilgrimage destination todayMount TaborMajor pilgrimage destination todayOur Lady of GuadalupeMajor pilgrimage destination todayPatmosMajor pilgrimage destination todaySaint Catherine's MonasteryMajor pilgrimage destination todayScheyern AbbeyMajor pilgrimage destination todaySea of GalileeMajor pilgrimage destination todayThe Basilica of Saint Francis, AssisiMajor pilgrimage destination todayThe Church of the Holy SepulchreMajor pilgrimage destination todayThe Church of the NativityMajor pilgrimage destination todayValencia CathedralMajor pilgrimage destination todayWalsinghamMajor pilgrimage destination todaySources1. 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.