A first collection · 50 states
Sacred places of the United States
150 places. Fifty states. Many ways of belonging.
Meet living congregations, places of pilgrimage and ancestral landscapes. These are three starting points in each state, not a ranking or an exhaustive inventory.
Most new map points identify a nearby community for orientation. Each profile states its location precision and links to its sources.
Choose a state
Northeast
South
Midwest
West
Pacific
How this collection was written
Martin Gray’s World Pilgrimage Guide helped us discover places. We supplemented that guide with religious communities, Tribal sources, museums and heritage agencies to reach every state. The introductions are original Sacred Earth Map writing. Sources are linked on each profile; no guide photographs or descriptions are reproduced.