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 country (with modern name). For a list of only Roman Catholic churches often visited by pilgrims, see Pilgrimage church.

Old World

The Holy Land

Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, Israel.

The Holy Land is where many events in the Old Testament and New Testament of the Bible transpired, mainly overlapping the combined territory of modern-day Israel and Palestine (Gaza and the West Bank). In alphabetical order, the main sites are these:

Eastern Christianity

Croagh Patrick chapel, County Mayo, Ireland.

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

Armenia

Etchmiadzin Cathedral, Etchmiadzin, Armenia.

Azerbaijan

Bulgaria

Egypt

Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai in Egypt's South Sinai Peninsula.

Ethiopia

Georgia

Greece

  • Mount Athos, Athos peninsula: an Orthodox monastic centre.
  • Patmos: traditionally held to be the island where John the Apostle received Revelation.
  • Saint Nicholas of Spata, Achaea: road to Saint Nicholas[clarification needed].
  • Tinos island: known for a reportedly miraculous icon of the Virgin Mother to which pilgrims flock on the anniversary of her ascension (as described in Catholic tradition).

India

Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health, a 16th-century Marian apparition shrine, Velankanni, Tamil Nadu, India.

Iran

Jordan

Al-Maghtas ruins on the eastern side of the Jordan River across from Jericho, location of the ministry of John the Baptist and the baptism of Jesus, Jordan.

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

Our Lady of Lebanon, Harissa, Lebanon.

Lebanon

Romania

Russia

Serbia

  • Djunis monastery, near Kruševac: a shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary as Theotokos, Serbia's most visited shrine.

Syria

Turkey

Ukraine

Western Christianity

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

Austria

Belgium

  • Banneux: the site of apparitions of the Virgin Mary in 1933.
  • Beauraing: the site of apparitions of the Virgin Mary in 1932. .

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sanctuary of Our Lady Queen of Peace, Međugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • Medjugorje: the site of apparitions of the Virgin Mary to six children in 1981.

Czech Republic

Finland

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

France

Sanctuary of Our Lady of La Salette, La Salette-Fallavaux, France.
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, Lourdes, France.

Germany

Hungary

India

Ireland

Italy

This list is organized by town because of the large number of pilgrimage sites.

The Sanctuary of Merciful Love in Collevalenza, Italy
Basilica of the Holy House in Loreto, Italy
Sanctuary of the Virgin of the Revelation in Tre Fontane, Rome, Italy
Sanctuary of St. Michael the Archangel, Mount Gargano, Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Divine Mercy Sanctuary, Kraków, global center of devotion to Divine Mercy, Poland.

Portugal

Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima, in Fátima's Cova da Iria quarter, Portugal.

Spain

Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar, in Zaragoza, Spain
The Holy Christ of Agony, Limpias, Spain: the miraculous crucifix where Jesus appeared alive on the cross
Our Lady of Garabandal, a pilgrimage site in Cantabria region, Northern Spain

Romania

Slovakia

Greek Catholic
  • Basilica minor of the Dormition of the Mother of God of Ľutina: the largest Greek Catholic pilgrimage in Slovakia, held every August 15.
Roman Catholic
Marian shrine in Turzovka, Slovakia.

Switzerland

United Kingdom

England
Northern Ireland
Scotland
  • Carfin Grotto, Carfin: the national Marian shrine of Scotland, modeled after the grotto in Lourdes.[11]
  • Iona: an island off the west coast of Scotland that is the centre of Gaelic monasticism, associated with Saint Columba.
  • St Andrews Cathedral, Fife: the site of some of the remains of Saint Andrew the Apostle, and focus of a recently revived pilgrimage tradition, The Way of St Andrews.
Wales

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, baptised by Rv. Van Lith, SJ [clarification needed].

Malaysia

Philippines

Vietnam

Latin America

Argentina

Brazil

Costa Rica

  • Basilica of Our Lady of the Angels, Cartago: the site of a large pilgrimage of people who walk from all around the country with the goal of arriving there on 2 August, the feast day of Our Lady of the Angels of the Portiuncula, on which the Portiuncula Indulgence may be gained; also a national holiday due to the pilgrimage.

Mexico

Honduras

  • Basilica of Our Lady of Suyapa (Spanish: Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Suyapa or Basílica de Suyapa), Tegucigalpa: dedicated to the Marian apparition of Our Lady of Suyapa, attracting approximately 1.2 million pilgrims each year on 3 February; also the largest church in Honduras.

Guatemala

North America

Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Quebec, Canada.

Canada

United States

Catholic
Eastern Orthodox
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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