The World’s Sacred Places

Sacred Places

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Viên Giác Pagoda, Hannover

Mittelfeld, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany Buddhism

Major Vietnamese Buddhist monastery and pagoda in Hanover, one of the largest Buddhist centers of its kind in Europe.

Gautama Buddha

St. Mary’s Cathedral, Hildesheim

Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany Christianity

UNESCO-listed Romanesque cathedral noted for the Bernward bronze doors, column and other exceptional medieval church treasures.

Virgin Mary

St. Michael’s Church, Hildesheim

Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany Christianity

Former Benedictine abbey church built by Bishop Bernward and one of Europe’s major surviving monuments of Ottonian Romanesque architecture.

Saint Michael the Archangel