Sacred Spaces

Once the site of a 12-century monastery, this tiny island is now home to only five permanent residents.

A temple belonging to the largest Buddhist order in South Korea nestled in the middle of New York City.

After a night ravaged by bedbugs, it's said King John ordered the creation of this weathervane.

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

This mesmerizing medieval monastery-cave complex sits thousands of feet above ground overlooking a valley.

A venerated grave atop an ancient royal hill, often attributed to the last king of Singapura.

The cathedral of a controversial, conservative, schismatic sect that declared the Catholic Church heretical and founded its own succession of popes.

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.

This 1836 church, constructed by formerly enslaved people, honors a leader in Afrocentric music.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

The largest mosque in Germany.

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

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

In this medieval church, a centuries-old stuffed crocodile hangs from the ceiling.

A striped 12th-century basilica sits in the countryside of Sardinia.

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