The World’s Sacred Places
Discover a curated guide to significant sacred places, pilgrimage traditions, architecture, documented history and practical visitor information across cultures and faith traditions.
Curated Discovery
Browse Sacred Places selected for Templestan’s public collection.
Founded in 1967 as the first Tibetan Buddhist centre in the West and now a major international monastery and teaching centre.
Ruined medieval cathedral that made St Andrews the ecclesiastical capital of Scotland and a major pilgrimage destination.
The High Kirk of Edinburgh and a nationally significant centre of the Scottish Reformation and Presbyterian history.
Exceptional surviving medieval Scottish cathedral built around the tomb and pilgrimage shrine of St Mungo.
One of Britain’s most celebrated monastic ruins and a major sacred-heritage tourism destination in the Wye Valley.
Historic cathedral of Cardiff with roots in early Welsh Christianity and a major concentration of Welsh saint traditions.
One of the most important Christian sites in the British Isles, founded by St Columba and still a major international pilgrimage destination.
Pilgrimage site near St Davids traditionally associated with the birth of St David and a holy well attributed with healing powers.
Early Christian monastic landscape on Anglesey with medieval priory remains, ancient crosses and St Seiriol’s holy well.
Major Welsh Cistercian abbey, burial place of princes and poets and an historic destination for pilgrimage.
Remote island pilgrimage destination off the Llŷn Peninsula, famed for early Christian monastic heritage and the tradition of the “Island of 20,000…
The first Peace Pagoda built in the Western world, created by the Nipponzan-Myōhōji Buddhist order at Willen Lake.
