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The World’s Sacred Places

Sacred Places

Discover a curated guide to significant sacred places, pilgrimage traditions, architecture, documented history and practical visitor information across cultures and faith traditions.

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Sacred Places

Browse Sacred Places selected for Templestan’s public collection.

Tomar Synagogue

Tomar, Santarém District, Portugal Judaism

A rare surviving 15th-century Portuguese synagogue, now the Abraham Zacuto Luso-Hebrew Museum and a key witness to medieval Jewish life in Tomar.

Convent of Christ in Tomar

Tomar, Santarém District, Portugal Christianity

A UNESCO-listed Templar and Order of Christ complex in Tomar, founded in 1160 and centred on a remarkable Romanesque rotunda inspired by…

Shrine of Fátima

Cova da Iria, Fátima, Ourém, Santarém District, Portugal Christianity

Portugal’s principal Catholic pilgrimage shrine, centred on Cova da Iria and the 1917 Fátima apparition tradition.

Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima