holy city
Pilgrimage destination center
A holy city is a place considered sacred by a religion—a center of pilgrimage, worship, or spiritual significance.
Jerusalem is a holy city to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; Mecca to Muslims; Varanasi to Hindus.
The phrase often appears with the definite article when a religion has one preeminent sacred place: the Holy City.
Any deeply revered destination might be called someone's holy city: Nashville is the holy city of country music.
- VaranasiSacred Hindu city, Ganges
- MeccaIslam's most sacred city
- JerusalemTriply sacred ancient capital
- LourdesFrench pilgrimage town
- MedinaSacred Arabian burial site
Bethlehem · sacred ground · Amritsar · pilgrimage · pilgrimage site · Lhasa · sacred · relics · eternal flame · Fatima · sanctuary · Camino de Santiago · sacred space · Ganges · Angkor Wat · Hagia Sophia · Canterbury · consecrated
- Heavenparadise, pearly gates, eternal life, kingdom of heaven, New Jerusalem
- realmsrealm, kingdom, domain, Heaven, Hades
- Biblical Afterlifeheaven, paradise, Hades, Gehenna, lake of fire
- heavenly rewardseternal life, everlasting life, crown of life, crown of glory, heavenly inheritance
- heavenly visionsangelic choir, archangels, ascension, celestial beings, cherubim
- sacred sitesBuddhist temples, Jerusalem, consecrated ground, Hindu temples, sacred rivers
holy citySodom
Destroyed city of vice
Gomorrah · den of iniquity · Babylon · red-light district · Las Vegas