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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.

Tintern Abbey

Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom Christianity

One of Britain’s most celebrated monastic ruins and a major sacred-heritage tourism destination in the Wye Valley.

Llandaff Cathedral

Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom Christianity

Historic cathedral of Cardiff with roots in early Welsh Christianity and a major concentration of Welsh saint traditions.

St Peter and St Paul

St Non’s Chapel and Well

St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom Christianity

Pilgrimage site near St Davids traditionally associated with the birth of St David and a holy well attributed with healing powers.

St Non

Strata Florida Abbey

Pontrhydfendigaid, Ceredigion, Wales, United Kingdom Christianity

Major Welsh Cistercian abbey, burial place of princes and poets and an historic destination for pilgrimage.

Bardsey Island

Llŷn Peninsula, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom Christianity

Remote island pilgrimage destination off the Llŷn Peninsula, famed for early Christian monastic heritage and the tradition of the “Island of 20,000…

St Davids Cathedral

St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom Christianity

National shrine of St David and one of Wales’s foremost Christian pilgrimage destinations.

St David

St Winefride’s Well and Chapel

Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom Christianity

One of Britain’s best-known holy wells, with a continuous pilgrimage and healing tradition associated with St Winefride.

St Winefride

Shrine Church of Saint Melangell

Pennant Melangell, Llangynog, Powys, Wales, United Kingdom Christianity

Remote Welsh shrine preserving the reconstructed medieval shrine of St Melangell and a long pilgrimage tradition.

St Melangell