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.

Abbey of Gellone, Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert

Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, Hérault, Occitanie, France Christianity

Historic abbey on a major pilgrimage route, associated with St. Guilhem and medieval veneration of a relic of the True Cross.

St. Guilhem (William of Gellone)

Lerab Ling

Roqueredonde, Hérault, Occitanie, France Buddhism

One of Europe’s leading centres for the study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism, founded in southern France in 1991.