holy places
Where pilgrims gather
Holy places are sites considered sacred by a religious tradition—locations believed to be touched by divinity, blessed by saints, or significant in religious history.
Temples, shrines, churches, and pilgrimage destinations all qualify: Jerusalem is a holy place for three faiths.
The term often appears in discussions of access and protection: The treaty guaranteed safe passage to the holy places.
- shrineSacred devotional place
- Mount SinaiBiblical mountain of law
- sacred groundLand deemed spiritually inviolable
- altarSacred ritual table
- JerusalemTriply sacred ancient capital
promised land · mosque · Vatican City · Mecca · synagogue · Uluru · spirit world · Lourdes · basilica · Stonehenge · Angkor Wat · Ganges · pilgrimage · Machu Picchu · gurdwara · church · Varanasi · monastery
- culturemusic taste, beliefs, food preferences, custom, festivals
- religionChristianity, Islam, beliefs, Judaism, Hinduism
- heritagecultural traditions, museum, national heritage, archive, monument
- Holy LandJerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Israel, Palestine
- native spiritualitymedicine man, sacred ceremonies, native rituals, vision quest, sweat lodge
- Tribal Spiritualityspirit animal, spirit animals, totem, totem poles, ancestor spirits
holy placescommon ground
Points of agreement
commercial zones · commercial areas · industrial areas · public spaces · public squares
holy placesdens of iniquity
Places of vice
Sodom and Gomorrah · houses of ill repute · brothels · opium dens · red-light districts