Christianity

The walls and ceilings of the "Mexican Sistine Chapel" are almost completely covered with mural, sculpture, inscriptions and oil paintings.

A monument marks where a convent was burned by an anti-Catholic mob in 1834.

Eliot was the first missionary to produce religious text for Algonquians in their own language.

The history of Mar Behnam Monastery is that of violence, intolerance, resiliency, and spirituality.

This collection of Christian churches are nestled in the cracks of a rocky hill in Northern Nigeria.

This iconic rock hermitage was once the abode of a future pope.

This tower is all that remains of the mosque that once stood in the center of the city, before it was destroyed by fire in 1941.

A place to learn about the history and culture of Mexico's largest Anabaptist group.

When occupying Nazi troops detonated a mine below, medieval frescoes were revealed in this small cliff-side hermitage.

During World War II, the Shroud of Turin was secreted to this remote southern Italian complex.

This rare and ancient Christian relic is one of Ireland’s oldest freestanding stone crosses.

One of the four sanctuaries of Rieti's Holy Valley was the site of the first living nativity scene.

In this nearly 1,000-year-old monastery, monks painstakingly restore old books.

A century-old stone hermitage overlooks this remote pass in the Hoggar mountains, surrounded by a landscape of eroded volcanic cores.