List of Christian pilgrimage sites

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This is a list of sites notable as destinations of Christian pilgrimage, sorted by region and by (modern) country.

This page has a wider view of the topic, while the "pilgrimage church" page offers Catholic sites.

Old World

The Holy Land

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

The Holy Land, location of many events in the Old Testament and New Testament. After Jerusalem, the list is alphabetical.

The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

Eastern Christianity

Sites associated with Eastern Christianity in Eastern Europe and the Near East (excluding the Holy Land proper).

Armenia

Sanctuary of Our Lady of La Salette
Croagh Patrick chappel, Ireland

Artsakh (de facto)

Bulgaria

  • Eastern Orthodox
    monastery in Bulgaria.

Egypt

Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai
  • Constantine the Great
  • monastics
    .

Ethiopia

Georgia

  • Jvari (monastery)
    6th century (UNESCO World Heritage Sites)
  • David Gareja monastery complex. A rock-hewn monastery complex founded in the 6th century
  • Vardzia. A cave monastery site in southern Georgia
  • Gelati Monastery. The monastery contains the Church of the Virgin founded in 1106, and the 13th-century churches of St George and St Nicholas (UNESCO World Heritage Site)

Greece

  • Mount Athos. Orthodox monastic centre.
  • Tinos.
  • Patmos. Traditionally the island where John the Apostle received Revelation.
  • Saint Nicholas of Spata
    Road to Saint Nicholas.

India

Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health in India is a 16th-century Marian apparition shrine.

Iran

Jordan

Al-Maghtas ruins on the eastern side of the Jordan River are the location for the Baptism of Jesus and the ministry of John the Baptist.

Alphabetically by noun, ignoring the Arabic article (al-, el-)

  • Anjara, Our Lady of the Mount Church - built around a cave, where by tradition Jesus, the Virgin Mary and the disciples rested during a trip between Jerusalem and Galilee.
  • John the Baptist
    was imprisoned and beheaded.
  • Bethany beyond the Jordan
    .
  • promised land
    "
  • Tell Mar Elias outside Ajloun - ruins of a large Byzantine church dedicated to the Prophet Elijah the Tishbite and located in the area of biblical Tishbe in Gilead.[dubious ]
Our Lady of Lebanon

Lebanon

Romania

  • Saint Paraskevi

Russia

Serbia

  • Djunis monastery near Kruševac is the most visited shrine in Serbia, dedicated to the Theotokos

Syria

Turkey

.

Ukraine

  • Pochayiv Lavra
  • Holy Mountains Lavra
  • Kiev Monastery of the Caves

Western Christianity

Sites associated with Western Christianity (Roman Catholicism, including sites now in Protestant parts of Europe).

Austria

  • Mariazell. Marian shrine to Austria and Hungary

Belgium

  • Banneux - Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1933 [1]
  • Beauraing - Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1932 [2].

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Medjugorje - Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1981

Czech Republic

Finland

  • Kirkkokari, the only Roman Catholic pilgrimage site in Finland.

France

Basilica of St. Thérèse, Lisieux
.
  • The several churches and basilicas in Lourdes - associated with Marian apparitions receive over 5 million pilgrims a year, making Lourdes the second most visited Christian pilgrimage site in Europe after Rome.
  • Paris - the cathedral of
    Basilica of Sacré-Coeur
    in Montmartre
  • Basilica of St. Thérèse (Lisieux)
    - in Normandy. The second pilgrimage site in France after Lourdes, with over 2 million visitors per year.

Germany

Hungary

India

Ireland

Italy

St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City

Latvia

Lithuania

Netherlands

Norway

  • St. Olav
    . 4th most visited pilgrimage site in Middle Ages.

Poland

Divine Mercy Sanctuary in Kraków-Łagiewniki, the global center of Divine Mercy
An ancient pilgrimage road to Santiago de Compostela.

Portugal

The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima, in Cova da Iria, Fátima, Portugal.

Spain

Romania

  • ethnic Hungarian
    ) Catholics.
Basilica minor of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Mariánska hora in Levoča
, the largest pilgrimage site in Slovakia

Slovakia

Greek Catholic
Roman Catholic

Switzerland

United Kingdom

New World

Pilgrimage sites in parts of the world reached by Christianity in the early modern or modern era, including the Americas, Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast and East Asia.

Sub-Saharan Africa

Rwanda

Uganda

East and Southeast Asia

Japan

South Korea

  • Seoul Martyrs Way

Indonesia

  • Sendangsono. Central Java; The first native Javan baptized by Rv. Van Lith, SJ

Malaysia

Philippines

  • National Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help
    . One of the most venerated Marian images in Asia.
  • Our Lady of Manaoag is one of the Philippines' most widely visited Roman Catholic Pilgrimage sites and the patroness of the sick, the helpless and the needy.
  • Our Lady of Peñafrancia in Naga City is the patroness of ailments, moreover, the whole Southern Luzon. It is considered to be one of the largest Marian pilgrimages in Asia.
  • Jesus Christ
    which many people believe has miraculous attributes.
  • Simala Shrine is one of the Roman Catholic pilgrimage site located in Sibonga.
  • Divine Mercy Shrine (Misamis Oriental) located in El Salvador, Misamis Oriental. The Shrine serves as a pilgrimage site for divine mercy devotees.

Vietnam

Latin America

Brazil

  • Basilica of the Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida
    - one of the largest churches in the world and receives about 8 million visitors per year.

Costa Rica

  • Basilica of Our Lady of the Angels - the pilgrims walk from all around the country with the goal of arriving on 2 August to the Basilica in Cartago, that date is the feast day of the feast day of Our Lady of the Angels of the Portiuncula (on which the Portiuncola Indulgence could be gained) and a national holiday due to the pilgrimage.

Mexico

Honduras

Guatemala

  • Nuestra Señora de la Merced, Antigua, Guatemala

North America

Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Quebec

Canada

United States

Catholic
Eastern Orthodox
  • St. Herman of Alaska
    .
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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