Alphabetical List of Sacred Sites

Below is an alphabetical list of 1256 sacred sites and religious places currently profiled on Sacred Destinations. Many sacred sites have several names, due to different translations and transliterations, or a popular name and official name. The names used in this list are those that seem to be most commonly used by English-speakers.

Aachen Cathedral (Aachen, Germany)Abbaye aux Dames (Caen, France)Abbaye aux Hommes (Caen, France)Abbaye de la Cambre (Brussels, Belgium)Abbey of St. Florian (Austria)Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi Mosque (Alexandria, Egypt)Abu Simbel (Abu Simbel, Egypt)Abydos (Egypt)Acropolis Museum (Athens, Greece)Adashino Nenbutsuji (Kyoto, Japan)Agia Sophia Church (Thessaloniki, Greece)Agia Triada Monastery (Meteora, Greece)Agii Apostoli Church (Athens, Greece)Agios Nikólaos Ragavás Church (Athens, Greece)Agios Nikolaos Anapafsas Monastery (Meteora, Greece)Agios Stefanos Monastery (Meteora, Greece)Agrigento Temples (Agrigento, Italy)Airport Mesa (Sedona, USA)Aix Cathedral (Aix-en-Provence, France)Ajanta Caves (Maharashtra, India)Akdamar Church (Turkey)Al Aqsa Mosque (Jerusalem, Israel)Al-Azhar Mosque and University (Cairo, Egypt)Al-Bara (Syria)Al-Masjid al-Haram (The Holy Mosque) (Mecca, Saudi Arabia)Alaeddin Mosque (Konya, Turkey)Albi Cathedral (Albi, France)Alcazar de Los Reyes Cristianos (Cordoba, Spain)Alcobaça Monastery (Portugal)Aldersgate Flame (London, England)Alet les Bains Abbey (Alet les Bains, France)Alexander Nevsky Monastery (St. Petersburg, Russia)Alexandria National Museum (Alexandria, Egypt)All Hallows by the Tower (London, England)All Souls College (Oxford, England)Almendres Cromlech (Portugal)Almendres Menhir (Portugal)Almoravid Koubba (Marrakesh, Morocco)Almudena Cathedral (Madrid, Spain)Alta Rock Carvings (Norway)Altamura Cathedral (Altamura, Italy)Alter Dom (Ignatiuskirche) (Linz, Austria)Amalfi Cathedral (Amalfi, Italy)Amiens Cathedral (Amiens, France)Amman (Amman, Jordan)Amphithéâtre des Trois Gaules (Lyon, France)Amulet Market (Bangkok, Thailand)Anagni Cathedral (Anagni, Italy)Ananda Pahto Temple (Bagan, Burma)Ancient Akrotiri (Santorini, Greece)Ancient Kition (Larnaca, Cyprus)Ancient Thira (Santorini, Greece)Anderlecht Beguinage (Brussels, Belgium)Andreaskirche (Hildesheim, Germany)Andreaskirche (Eisleben, Germany)Andronikov Monastery (Moscow, Russia)Angers Cathedral (Angers, France)Angkor Thom (Angkor, Cambodia)Angkor Wat (Angkor, Cambodia)Anne Frank House (Amsterdam, Netherlands)Anta Grande do Zambujeiro (Portugal)Antakya Archaeological Museum (Antioch, Turkey)Antwerp Cathedral (Antwerp, Belgium)Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka)Anzy-le-Duc Church (Anzy-le-Duc, France)Apamea (Syria)Aphrodisias (Turkey)Aphrodite's Rock (Cyprus)Arch of Constantine (Rome, Italy)Arch of Titus (Rome, Italy)Archaeological Site (Geneva, Switzerland)Archbishop's Palace (Narbonne, France)Areopagus (Mars Hill) (Athens, Greece)Arequipa Cathedral (Arequipa, Peru)Arian Baptistery (Ravenna, Italy)Armenian Mosaic (Jerusalem, Israel)Asamkirche (Munich, Germany)Asian Art Museum (San Francisco, USA)Asian Art Museum (Seattle, USA)Asklepion (Pergamum, Turkey)Auditoire de Calvin (Geneva, Switzerland)Augsburg Cathedral (Augsburg, Germany)Augustinerkirche (Vienna, Austria)Augustinerkloster (Erfurt, Germany)Aula Palatina (Basilica of Constantine) (Trier, Germany)Aulnay Church (Aulnay-de-Saintonge, France)Autun Cathedral (Autun, France)Avebury Henge (Avebury, England)Avignon Cathedral (Avignon, France)Avila Cathedral (Avila, Spain)Axum Stelae Field (Axum, Ethiopia)Ayios Lazaros (Larnaca, Cyprus)Baalbeck (Baalbeck, Lebanon)Badlands (USA)Badshahi Mosque (Lahore, Pakistan)Baha'i House of Worship (Chicago, USA)Baha'i House of Worship (Samoa)Baha'i Shrine and Gardens (Haifa, Israel)Bahar Dar (Ethiopia)Baltimore Basilica (Baltimore, USA)Bampton Church (Bampton, England)Banteay Srei (Angkor, Cambodia)Baptistère Saint-Jean (Poitiers, France)Barcelona Cathedral (La Seu) (Barcelona, Spain)Barfüsserkirche (Erfurt, Germany)Basilica de la Macarena (Seville, Spain)Basilica de San Vicente (Avila, Spain)Basilica di San Francesco (Assisi, Italy)Basilica di San Nicola (Bari, Italy)Basilica di Santa Chiara (Assisi, Italy)Basilica Koekelberg (Brussels, Belgium)Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Mexico City, Mexico)Basilica of Our Lady of Peace (Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast)Basilica of St. John (Ephesus, Turkey)Basilica of St. Martin (Tours, France)Basilica of St. Paul Serge (Narbonne, France)Basilica of St. Sergius (Rasafa, Syria)Basilica of St. Sernin (Toulouse, France)Basilica of the Annunciation (Nazareth, Israel)Basilica of the Holy Blood (Bruges, Belgium)Basilica of the Immaculate Conception (Lourdes, France)Basilica of the National Shrine (Washington DC, USA)Basilica of the Rosary (Lourdes, France)Batalha Monastery (Portugal)Bath Abbey (Bath, England)Battle Abbey (Battle, England)Bayon Temple (Angkor, Cambodia)Begijnhof (Amsterdam, Netherlands)Beguinage Church (Brussels, Belgium)Bell Rock (Sedona, USA)Bellapais Abbey (Cyprus)Ben Ezra Synagogue (Cairo, Egypt)Ben Youssef Medersa (Marrakesh, Morocco)Beng Melea (Angkor, Cambodia)Bent Pyramid (Dahshur, Egypt)Beram Church (Croatia)Berliner Dom (Berlin, Germany)Bern Münster (Bern, Switzerland)Bethany-Beyond-the-Jordan (Jordan)Betsuin Buddhist Temple (Seattle, USA)Bevis Marks Synagogue (London, England)Beyazit Camii (Istanbul, Turkey)Bible Lands Museum (Jerusalem, Israel)Bible Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Milan, Italy)Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Alexandria, Egypt)Bighorn Medicine Wheel (USA)Bishop's Museum (Trier, Germany)Bishop's Palace (St Davids, Wales)Bishop's Palace and Archdiocesan Museum (Krakow, Poland)Bitonto Cathedral (Bitonto, Italy)Black Bourton Church (Black Bourton, England)Blue Mosque (Istanbul, Turkey)Bode Museum (Berlin, Germany)Bodhi Tree (Bodhgaya, India)Bodleian Library (Oxford, England)Bom Jesús do Monte (Braga, Portugal)Bonmont Abbey (Switzerland)Bonn Münster (Bonn, Germany)Borobudur (Indonesia)Bosra (Syria)Boudhanath Stupa (Kathmandu, Nepal)Bourges Cathedral (Bourges, France)Boynton Canyon (Sedona, USA)Braga Cathedral (Braga, Portugal)Brasenose College (Oxford, England)Bristol Cathedral (Bristol, England)Brixworth Church (Brixworth, England)Bruges Cathedral (Bruges, Belgium)Brussels Cathedral (Brussels, Belgium)Bulguksa (South Korea)Bunhill Fields (London, England)Burgos Cathedral (Burgos, Spain)Byland Abbey (England)Byodoin (Kyoto, Japan)Byzantine Church (Petra, Jordan)Byzantine Churches of Naxos Island (Naxos Island, Greece)Byzantine Museum (Thessaloniki, Greece)Cîteaux Abbey (Saint-Nicolas-les-Cîteaux, France)C.S. Lewis Places (Oxford, England)Cadet Chapel (USA)Cadiz Cathedral (Cadiz, Spain)Caen Memorial (Caen, France)Caesarea Temples and Churches (Caesarea, Israel)Cahokia Mounds (USA)Callanish Stones (Isle of Lewis, Scotland)Camino de Santiago (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)Camposanto (Pisa, Italy)Cana (Israel)Canterbury Cathedral (Canterbury, England)Canterbury Cathedral Stained Glass (Canterbury, England)Cao Dai Temple (Vietnam)Capela dos Ossos (Chapel of Bones) (Evora, Portugal)Capernaum (Israel)Capitoline Hill and Museums (Rome, Italy)Cappella Palatina (Palermo, Italy)Capuchin Catacombs (Palermo, Italy)Caracol (Belize)Carnac Stones (Carnac, France)Carthage (Tunisia)

Germigny-des-Pres Oratory (Germigny-des-Pres, France)Ggantija Temples (Malta)Giant Buddha of Leshan (Leshan, China)Ginkakuji (Kyoto, Japan)Giza Pyramids (Giza, Egypt)Glastonbury Abbey (Glastonbury, England)Glastonbury Tor (Glastonbury, England)Glendalough (Ireland)Gloucester Cathedral (Gloucester, England)Golden Rock (Burma)Golden Temple of Amritsar (Amritsar, India)Gortyna (Greece)Gourdon Church (Gourdon, France)Grace Cathedral (San Francisco, USA)Grande Synagogue (Lyon, France)Grande Synagogue (Geneva, Switzerland)Grave of C.S. Lewis (Headington) (Oxford, England)Great Buddha (Kamakura, Japan)Great Haseley Church (Great Haseley, England)Great Malvern Priory (Great Malvern, England)Great Meteoron Monastery (Meteora, Greece)Great Milton Church (Great Milton, England)Great Mosque of Aleppo (Aleppo, Syria)Great Mosque of Damascus (Umayyad Mosque) (Damascus, Syria)Great Mosque of Djenne (Mali)Great Mosque of Kairouan (Kairouan, Tunisia)Great Mosque of Xi'an (Xi'an, China)Great Pyramid of Cholula (Puebla, Mexico)Great Sphinx of Giza (Giza, Egypt)Great Synagogue (Rome, Italy)Great Synagogue (Plzen, Czech Republic)Great Synagogue (Brussels, Belgium)Great Temple (Petra, Jordan)Greco-Roman Museum (Alexandria, Egypt)Greyfriars Kirk (Edinburgh, Scotland)Grossmünster (Zurich, Switzerland)Grotto of Massabielle (Lourdes, France)Grotto of St. Paul (Ephesus, Turkey)Gurk Cathedral (Austria)Haeinsa (South Korea)Hagar Qim Temple (Qrendi, Malta)Hagia Eirene (Istanbul, Turkey)Hagia Sophia (Istanbul, Turkey)Hailes Abbey (Hailes, England)Hailes Church (Hailes, England)Hallgrimskirkja (Reykjavik, Iceland)Hammamat Ma'in (Jordan)Hanging Church (Cairo, Egypt)Hasedera (Kamakura, Japan)Hassan II Mosque (Casablanca, Morocco)Havana Cathedral (Havana, Cuba)Heian Jingu (Kyoto, Japan)Heiliggeistkirche (Bern, Switzerland)Herod's Roman Theater (Caesarea, Israel)Heylshofgarten (Worms, Germany)Hierapolis (Pamukkale) (Turkey)Hildesheim Cathedral (Hildesheim, Germany)Hill of Tara (Ireland)Historic Voodoo Museum (New Orleans, USA)Historical Museum (Lausanne, Switzerland)Hofkirche (Court Church) (Innsbruck, Austria)Holy Hill Basilica (USA)Holy House of Loreto (Loreto, Italy)Holy Trinity Church (Salzburg, Austria)Holy Trinity Church (Geneva, Switzerland)Holy Trinity Lavra (Sergiev Posad, Russia)Holy Wisdom Monastery (Madison, USA)Holyrood Abbey (Edinburgh, Scotland)Hooglandse Kerk (Leiden, Netherlands)Horca del Inca (Copacabana, Bolivia)Horyuji (Nara, Japan)House of C.S. Lewis (The Kilns) (Oxford, England)House of St. Bernadette (Lourdes, France)House of St. Peter (Capernaum, Israel)House of the Virgin (Ephesus, Turkey)House of Theodore Beza (Vézelay, France)Hsi Lai Temple (Los Angeles, USA)Hua Zang Si Temple (San Francisco, USA)Hurlers (England)Hurva Synagogue (Jerusalem, Israel)Ibn Tulun Mosque (Cairo, Egypt)Iffley Church (Oxford, England)Iglesia de San Francisco (La Paz, Bolivia)Iglesia de San Francisco (Lima, Peru)Iglesia del Espiritu Santo (Havana, Cuba)Iguerande Church (Iguerande, France)Il Gesù (Rome, Italy)Inner City Church (Budapest, Hungary)Innsbruck Cathedral (Innsbruck, Austria)Iona Abbey (Scotland)Isaak Synagogue (Krakow, Poland)Isabey Mosque (Ephesus, Turkey)Ise Shrine (Ise Jingu) (Ise, Japan)Islamic Art Museum (Cairo, Egypt)Islamic Center of Geneva (Geneva, Switzerland)Islamic Center of Washington (Washington DC, USA)Ismail Samani Mausoleum (Bukhara, Uzbekistan)Israel Museum (Jerusalem, Israel)Istanbul Archaeological Museum (Istanbul, Turkey)Ivolginksy Datsan (Ivolginsk, Russia)Izmir Agora (Izmir, Turkey)Izmir Archaeological Museum (Izmir, Turkey)Jüdisches Kulturmuseum (Augsburg, Germany)Jade Buddha Temple (Yufo Si) (Shanghai, China)Jerada (Syria)Jerash (Jordan)Jeronimos Monastery (Lisbon, Portugal)Jerusalem Church (Bruges, Belgium)Jesus Boat Museum (Israel)Jewish Cemetery (Worms, Germany)Jewish Ghetto (Venice, Italy)Jewish Historical Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)Jewish History Museum (Thessaloniki, Greece)Jewish Museum (Budapest, Hungary)Jewish Museum Berlin (Berlin, Germany)Jewish Museum London (London, England)Jewish Museum of Belgium (Brussels, Belgium)Jewish Museum of Greece (Athens, Greece)Jewish Museum of Maryland (Baltimore, USA)Jewish Quarter of Cordoba (Cordoba, Spain)Jewish Shanghai (Shanghai, China)John Calvin Museum (Noyon, France)Jokhang Temple (Lhasa, Tibet)Judenplatz (Vienna, Austria)Kópavogskirkja (Kópavogur, Iceland)Kabah (Mexico)Kairaouine Mosque (Fes, Morocco)Kalon Mosque and Minaret (Bukhara, Uzbekistan)Kaneana Cave (Makua Cave) (USA)Karbala (Karbala, Iraq)Kariye Camii (St Savior in Chora) (Istanbul, Turkey)Karlskirche (Vienna, Austria)Karnak Temple (Luxor, Egypt)Kasuga Shrine (Nara, Japan)Kata Tjuta (Australia)Kedarnath (India)Kerak Castle (Jordan)Kharab Shams (Syria)Kilpeck Church (Kilpeck, England)King's College Chapel (Cambridge, England)Kinkakuji (Kyoto, Japan)Kiyomizudera (Kyoto, Japan)Kleine Synagoge (Erfurt, Germany)Knock Shrine (Knock, Ireland)Knossos (Greece)Knowth (Ireland)Kofukuji (Nara, Japan)Kollegienkirche (Collegiate Church) (Salzburg, Austria)Kolocep Island Churches (Croatia)Kom Ombo (Kom Ombo, Egypt)Konark Sun Temple (India)Konya Archaeological Museum (Konya, Turkey)Koricancha and Santo Domingo (Cusco, Peru)Koutoubia Mosque (Marrakesh, Morocco)Krak des Chevaliers (Syria)Krakus and Wanda Mounds (Krakow, Poland)Kumari Ghar (Kathmandu, Nepal)Kushinagar (Kushinagar, India)La Cataldo (Palermo, Italy)La Compañía de Jesús (Cusco, Peru)La Giralda (Seville, Spain)La Madeleine (Paris, France)La Martorana (Palermo, Italy)La Merced Church and Convent (Cusco, Peru)La Sagrada Família (Barcelona, Spain)Lake Manasarovar (Tibet)Lake Titicaca (Bolivia)Lalibela (Lalibela, Ethiopia)Lama Temple (Beijing, China)Landakotskirkja (Reykjavik, Iceland)Laodicea (Turkey)Laon Cathedral (Laon, France)Lascaux Caves (France)Last Supper Room (Jerusalem, Israel)Lausanne Cathedral (Lausanne, Switzerland)Le Puy Cathedral (Le Puy, France)León Cathedral (Leon, Spain)Leaning Tower of Pisa (Pisa, Italy)Leiden American Pilgrim Museum (Leiden, Netherlands)Library of Celsus (Ephesus, Turkey)Liebfrauenkirche (Trier, Germany)Lima Cathedral (Lima, Peru)Limburg Cathedral (Limburg an der Lahn, Germany)Lincoln Cathedral (Lincoln, England)Lindisfarne (England)Lisbon Cathedral (Lisbon, Portugal)Little Kimble Church (Little Kimble, England)Little Milton Church (Little Milton, England)Lokhorstkerk (Leiden, Netherlands)London Jamme Masjid (London, England)Longhua Temple (Shanghai, China)Longmen Caves (China)Lopud Franciscan Monastery (Croatia)Loreto Church (Salzburg, Austria)Los Cuatro Postes (Avila, Spain)Louvre Museum (Paris, France)Lovely Lane Methodist Church (Baltimore, USA)Lucca Cathedral (San Martino) (Lucca, Italy)Lumbini (Nepal)Luther House (Eisenach, Germany)