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.
The Monastery of Archangel Michael Panormitis stands on the southern coast of Symi and is one of the best-known Orthodox pilgrimage centres…
The Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa is built into a sheer cliff on Amorgos, roughly 300 metres above the Aegean Sea.
The Monastery of Saint Nektarios on Aegina, formally the Holy Trinity Monastery, is one of Greece’s best-known modern Orthodox pilgrimage destinations.
The Monastery of Saint John the Theologian crowns Chora on the island of Patmos and is the dominant monument of the island’s…
The Monastery of Hosios Loukas near Steiri in Boeotia is a major Byzantine monastic complex dedicated to the local saint Hosios Loukas…
Nea Moni of Chios is a Middle Byzantine monastery in the interior of Chios and one of the island’s most important sacred…
Holy Trinity Monastery, or Agia Triada, is one of the principal Orthodox monasteries of Meteora, perched high on a sandstone pillar above…
Daphni Monastery stands west of central Athens and is one of three Middle Byzantine monasteries jointly inscribed by UNESCO in 1990 with…
The Monastery of Saint Nicholas Anapausas is a compact rock-top monastery in the Meteora complex near Kalabaka, Thessaly.
Varlaam Monastery is one of the six principal monasteries of Meteora, standing on a sandstone pillar above the Thessalian landscape near Kalabaka.
The Monastery of Saint Stephen is one of the six principal monasteries of Meteora and today functions as an Orthodox convent.
Roussanou Monastery is one of the six surviving visitor monasteries of Meteora, dramatically placed on a narrow sandstone pillar near Kalabaka in…
