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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Salzburg Cathedral

Altstadt, Salzburg, Austria Christianity

Salzburg’s metropolitan cathedral, whose origins reach the 8th century and whose present Early Baroque building was consecrated in 1628.

Saints Rupert and Virgil

St. Peter’s Abbey, Salzburg

Altstadt, Salzburg, Austria Christianity

A Benedictine archabbey founded by Saint Rupert in 696 and continuously inhabited by a monastic community for more than thirteen centuries.

Saint Peter

Nonnberg Abbey

Nonnberg, Salzburg, Austria Christianity

A Benedictine women’s monastery founded between 712 and 715, with an uninterrupted religious community on Salzburg’s Nonnberg.

Saint Erentrudis