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The World’s Sacred Places English

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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53 Sacred Places

Browse Sacred Places selected for Templestan’s public collection.

Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes

Lourdes, Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie, France Christianity

One of the world’s major Catholic pilgrimage centres, associated with the 1858 Lourdes apparitions and a long medical review tradition for reported…

Our Lady of Lourdes

Sanctuary of Rocamadour

Rocamadour, Lot, Occitanie, France Christianity

Dramatic cliffside medieval sanctuary complex and one of France’s historic Marian pilgrimage centres, linked to the Black Madonna of Rocamadour.

Our Lady of Rocamadour

Strasbourg Cathedral

Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, Grand Est, France Christianity

Landmark cathedral of Strasbourg and the central Gothic monument of the UNESCO-listed Grande-Île and Neustadt.

Virgin Mary