The World’s Sacred Places
Discover a curated guide to significant sacred places, pilgrimage traditions, architecture, documented history and practical visitor information across cultures and faith traditions.
Curated Discovery
Browse Sacred Places selected for Templestan’s public collection.
Island monastic complex on Lough Erne founded in the early Christian period and now part of the Lough Erne pilgrimage landscape.
Mountain traditionally associated with St Patrick’s years of enslavement and now climbed in his memory as part of Northern Ireland’s Patrician heritage.
Major prehistoric ceremonial complex identified with Emain Macha, the legendary royal centre of Ulster.
Historic cathedral beside the traditional burial place of St Patrick and a major destination on the Saint Patrick pilgrimage landscape.
Pilgrimage church traditionally regarded as the place where St Patrick began his Irish mission.
Historic holy-well complex associated with St Patrick and a long pilgrimage and healing tradition.
Internationally famous late medieval chapel renowned for exceptionally rich stone carving and continuing Christian worship.
Coastal cave with early medieval Christian carvings and a continuing pilgrimage tradition associated with St Ninian.
Primatial Church of Ireland cathedral on the hill traditionally associated with St Patrick’s principal church at Armagh.
Roman Catholic primatial cathedral of Armagh, forming with the Church of Ireland cathedral a nationally important Patrician sacred landscape.
Royal abbey and mausoleum containing the burial traditions of St Margaret, Robert the Bruce and other Scottish monarchs.
Scotland’s national Marian shrine, created as a Lourdes grotto and visited by pilgrims from across Scotland and abroad.
