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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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Sacred Places

Browse Sacred Places selected for Templestan’s public collection.

Gurk Cathedral

Gurk, Sankt Veit an der Glan, Carinthia, Austria Christianity

A major Romanesque church in Carinthia whose hundred-column crypt contains the tomb venerated as that of Saint Hemma of Gurk.

Saint Hemma of Gurk

Mariendom Linz

Innenstadt, Linz, Upper Austria, Austria Christianity

The cathedral of Linz, begun in 1862 and solemnly consecrated in 1924 after a 62-year Gothic Revival building campaign.

Virgin Mary

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. Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna

Stephansplatz, Vienna, Innere Stadt, Austria Christianity

Vienna’s metropolitan cathedral, rooted in a 12th-century Romanesque church and transformed into a major Gothic landmark.

Saint Stephen

Nativity of Our Lady Cathedral

Bang Nok Khwaek, Bang Khonthi, Samut Songkhram, Thailand Christianity

A landmark Catholic cathedral on the Mae Klong waterways, built in the late 19th century in a Gothic-influenced style.

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Assumption Cathedral Bangkok

Bangkok, Bang Rak, Thailand Christianity

The principal Catholic cathedral of Bangkok and one of Thailand’s most important Christian sacred buildings.

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

St. Joseph’s Cathedral

Al Mushrif, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Christianity

The Catholic cathedral of Abu Dhabi and the historic church from which the city’s Catholic institutional life developed.

St. Joseph

Fulda Cathedral

Fulda, Hesse, Germany Christianity

Baroque cathedral whose crypt contains the tomb venerated as that of Saint Boniface, a central figure in the Christianization of German lands.

Saint Boniface

Speyer Cathedral

Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Christianity

UNESCO-listed Romanesque imperial cathedral begun under Conrad II and associated with the burials of medieval emperors and kings.

Virgin Mary and Saint Stephen

Aachen Cathedral

Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Christianity

Carolingian cathedral, burial place of Charlemagne and historic coronation church, with a seven-year relic pilgrimage tradition.

Aachen relics