East London Mosque
Whitechapel, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom Islam
Historic and nationally prominent mosque serving one of Britain’s largest Muslim communities in East London.
The World’s Sacred Places
Sacred Places
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Sacred Places
Browse Sacred Places selected for Templestan’s public collection.
Shah Jahan Mosque
Woking, Surrey, England, United Kingdom Islam
Britain’s first purpose-built mosque, opened in Woking in 1889 and now Grade I listed.
Avebury
Avebury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Vast Neolithic henge and stone-circle complex forming a principal component of the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site.
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, London
Neasden, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom Hinduism
Internationally significant Hindu mandir inaugurated in 1995 and a major centre of BAPS worship and cultural life in Britain.
Bhaktivedanta Manor
Hilfield, Watford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom Hinduism
Major ISKCON temple and pilgrimage centre in Hertfordshire, gifted to the Hare Krishna movement by George Harrison.
Rievaulx Abbey
Rievaulx, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Christianity
One of England’s great Cistercian monasteries, influential in medieval spirituality under Abbot Aelred of Rievaulx.
Stonehenge
Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
World-famous prehistoric ceremonial and funerary monument within the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites World Heritage Site.
Lindisfarne Priory
Holy Island, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom Christianity
Ruined priory on Holy Island, one of Britain’s most important early Christian and pilgrimage sites.
Fountains Abbey
Fountains, Ripon, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Christianity
One of Britain’s most important Cistercian ruins and the monastic core of the Studley Royal UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Glastonbury Abbey
Glastonbury, Somerset, England, United Kingdom Christianity
Major English monastic and pilgrimage heritage site surrounded by long-standing traditions concerning early Christianity and Joseph of Arimathea.
Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
Walsingham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom Christianity
International Anglican Marian shrine reviving one of medieval England’s most famous pilgrimage traditions.
Catholic National Shrine and Basilica of Our Lady, Walsingham
Houghton St Giles, Walsingham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom Christianity
National Catholic Marian shrine at Walsingham centred on the medieval Slipper Chapel.