Every tradition has drawn a line around certain places and called them different from the ground beside them.

Elev. 863 M · Uluru

Worth a journey. Worth a vow of silence. Worth walking fifty-two kilometres around a mountain no one has ever climbed.

Elev. 2,285 M · The witnesses

The line is drawn where something happened.

A bush that burned, and was not consumed.

Mount Sinai

A night in a cave, and a voice that said: recite.

Jabal al-Nour

Dawn beneath a fig tree, and the morning star rising.

Bodh Gaya

A light on the mountain, and garments white as snow.

Mount Tabor

A grove of trees in upstate New York, and a pillar of light.

Palmyra

Elev. 3,776 M · Fuji

In these places, communities concentrate their memory, their grief, their gratitude, and their architecture. We catalogue them.

1,184Sacred sites

219Destinations

24,000Original photographs

Rebuilt, article by article, from the original sacred-destinations.com.

Elev. 6,638 M · Kailash · Unclimbed

A place set apart from the ground beside it.

Not to flatten its meaning into trivia — but so that anyone, even someone who will never make the trip, can see why this ground has mattered for a thousand years.

Sacred Destinations