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This page groups sacred sites by whether their sacred status is still actively maintained. Wikipedia notes that Mircea Eliade "argues that while the concept of a sacred space is often associated with religious traditions, it is not exclusive to them," since secular societies can keep treating a place as significant too. Browsing this way lets a visitor tell a site with living religious observance apart from one preserved mainly for its history.

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Places 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. 2
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The 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.

In active religious use
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Angelus Temple

In active religious use

Basilica di Santa Croce in Gerusalemme

In active religious use

Basilica of Saint-Denys, Argenteuil

In active religious use

Canterbury Cathedral

In active religious use

Cathedral of San Salvador, Oviedo

In active religious use

Chartres Cathedral

In active religious use

Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

In active religious use

Durham Cathedral

In active religious use

Ebenezer Baptist Church

In active religious use

Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church

In active religious use

Fátima

In active religious use

Gethsemane

In active religious use

Hagia Sophia

In active religious use

Herrnhut

In active religious use

Holy Trinity-St Sergius Lavra

In active religious use

Iona

In active religious use

Jasna Góra

In active religious use

Kyiv Pechersk Lavra

In active religious use

Lakewood Church

In active religious use

Lindisfarne

In active religious use

Lourdes

In active religious use

Meteora

In active religious use

Mont Saint-Michel

In active religious use

Mount Athos

In active religious use

Mount Carmel

In active religious use

Mount Tabor

In active religious use

Notre-Dame de Paris

In active religious use

Our Lady of Guadalupe

In active religious use

Patmos

In active religious use

Reims Cathedral

In active religious use

Saint Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent

In active religious use

Saint Catherine's Monastery

In active religious use

Saint Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Necropolis

In active religious use

Santiago de Compostela

In active religious use

Sea of Galilee

In active religious use

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

In active religious use

The Basilica of Saint Francis, Assisi

In active religious use

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre

In active religious use

The Church of the Nativity

In active religious use

The Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna

In active religious use

Tremont Temple

In active religious use

Turin Cathedral

In active religious use

Valencia Cathedral

In active religious use

Walsingham

In active religious use

Wittenberg

In active religious use
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Pilgrimage in Medieval England
Diana Webb, Hambledon and London, 2000
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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