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This page groups sacred sites by whether UNESCO has formally recognized them. Wikipedia notes elsewhere that cultural traditions can be "recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity," the same kind of international listing that applies to World Heritage sites. Browsing by UNESCO status lets a visitor see which sacred sites carry that international recognition and which do not.

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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.

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Angelus Temple

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Azusa Street

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Basilica of Saint-Denys, Argenteuil

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Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

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Ebenezer Baptist Church

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Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church

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Fátima

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Gethsemane

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Glastonbury Abbey

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Glastonbury Tor

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Iona

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Lakewood Church

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Lindisfarne

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Lourdes

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Mount Tabor

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National Cathedral of Ghana

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Our Lady of Guadalupe

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Saint Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent

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Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

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Sponheim Abbey

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The Catacombs of Rome

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Tremont Temple

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Turin Cathedral

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Valencia Cathedral

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Walsingham

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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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