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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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Browse Sacred Places selected for Templestan’s public collection.

Holy Trinity Monastery, Meteora

Meteora, Kalabaka, Trikala, Thessaly, Greece Christianity

Holy Trinity Monastery, or Agia Triada, is one of the principal Orthodox monasteries of Meteora, perched high on a sandstone pillar above…

Holy Trinity

Varlaam Monastery

Meteora, Kalabaka, Trikala, Thessaly, Greece Christianity

Varlaam Monastery is one of the six principal monasteries of Meteora, standing on a sandstone pillar above the Thessalian landscape near Kalabaka.

Roussanou Monastery

Meteora, Kalabaka, Trikala, Thessaly, Greece Christianity

Roussanou Monastery is one of the six surviving visitor monasteries of Meteora, dramatically placed on a narrow sandstone pillar near Kalabaka in…

Great Meteoron Monastery

Meteora, Kalabaka, Trikala, Thessaly, Greece Christianity

Great Meteoron is the largest and historically pre-eminent monastery of Meteora, the Orthodox monastic landscape rising above the Thessalian plain near Kalabaka.

Transfiguration of Christ