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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Externsteine

Holzhausen-Externsteine, Horn-Bad Meinberg, Lippe, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Major German sacred-heritage landscape with documented medieval Christian features and widely debated later claims of pre-Christian cult use.