Home›Christian Sites›Site Type›Church, cathedral or chapelBrowse ByChurch, cathedral or chapelThis page groups sacred sites by their physical type. Wikipedia lists "sacred groves... sacred mountains, sacred trees, sacred waters, tombs" among the recognized types of sacred place. Browsing by site type lets a visitor compare a sacred mountain against a sacred spring or a venerated tomb.FactsLearn MoreChurch, cathedral or chapelSourcesComments (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.Church, cathedral or chapelFilter Results39 entriesPilgrimage StatusAllMajor pilgrimage destination today (17)One of a named, enumerated set of pilgrimage places (2)Pilgrimage attested historically; not continuing (1)Pilgrimage gathered on a dated festival (3)UNESCO World Heritage StatusAllInscribed on the World Heritage List (17)Inscribed on the World Heritage List and on the List in Danger (1)Not Inscribed (18)On a National Tentative List (2)Originated InAllBritish Isles (2)British Isles and Gaul (2)Central Europe (1)Eastern Europe (2)Iberia (5)Iberia and Southern France (5)Italy (5)Mesoamerica (1)North America (8)The Levant (5)Turkey (2)United States (8)West Africa (1)Western Europe (7)Origin Period Start YearAll0 (1)325 (1)327 (1)400 (1)537 (1)597 (1)800 (1)942 (1)995 (1)1001 (1)1163 (1)1194 (1)1201 (1)1228 (1)1262 (1)1382 (1)1400 (1)1491 (1)1517 (1)1531 (1)1555 (1)1816 (1)1858 (1)1877 (2)1894 (1)1906 (1)1911 (1)1917 (1)1923 (1)1959 (1)Practice StatusAllControl of or access to the site is contested (2)Historical; not practised continuously (1)In active religious use (33)Ruin or archaeological site; the cult has ceased (2)Standing, but maintained as a museum or heritage monument (4)TraditionAllChristianity (30)Islam (1)CountryAllBelgium (1)Czech Republic (1)France (6)Germany (1)Ghana (1)Israel (4)Italy (4)Mexico (1)Palestine (1)Poland (1)Portugal (1)Russia (1)Spain (3)Turkey (built under the Armenian Bagratid kingdom) (1)Turkiye (1)United Kingdom (2)United States (8)Vatican City (1)BrowseCompareSelect all 39Angelus TempleChurch, cathedral or chapelAzusa StreetChurch, cathedral or chapelBasilica di Santa Croce in GerusalemmeChurch, cathedral or chapelBasilica of Saint-Denys, ArgenteuilChurch, cathedral or chapelCanterbury CathedralChurch, cathedral or chapelCapernaumChurch, cathedral or chapelCathedral of AniChurch, cathedral or chapelCathedral of San Salvador, OviedoChurch, cathedral or chapelChartres CathedralChurch, cathedral or chapelDexter Avenue Baptist ChurchChurch, cathedral or chapelDurham CathedralChurch, cathedral or chapelEbenezer Baptist ChurchChurch, cathedral or chapelEmanuel African Methodist Episcopal ChurchChurch, cathedral or chapelFátimaChurch, cathedral or chapelGethsemaneChurch, cathedral or chapelHagia SophiaChurch, cathedral or chapelJasna GóraChurch, cathedral or chapelLakewood ChurchChurch, cathedral or chapelLourdesChurch, cathedral or chapelMont Saint-MichelChurch, cathedral or chapelMount TaborChurch, cathedral or chapelNational Cathedral of GhanaChurch, cathedral or chapelNotre-Dame de ParisChurch, cathedral or chapelOur Lady of GuadalupeChurch, cathedral or chapelReims CathedralChurch, cathedral or chapelSaint Basil's CathedralChurch, cathedral or chapelSaint Bavo's Cathedral, GhentChurch, cathedral or chapelSaint Peter's Basilica and the Vatican NecropolisChurch, cathedral or chapelSantiago de CompostelaChurch, cathedral or chapelSedlec OssuaryChurch, cathedral or chapelSixteenth Street Baptist ChurchChurch, cathedral or chapelThe Basilica of Saint Francis, AssisiChurch, cathedral or chapelThe Church of the Holy SepulchreChurch, cathedral or chapelThe Church of the NativityChurch, cathedral or chapelThe Early Christian Monuments of RavennaChurch, cathedral or chapelTremont TempleChurch, cathedral or chapelTurin CathedralChurch, cathedral or chapelValencia CathedralChurch, cathedral or chapelWittenbergChurch, cathedral or chapelSources1. 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.