Sacred places in Alabama

Three places to begin a deeper relationship with Alabama.

Follow each place’s story, then its source trail. Living communities and custodians determine how visitors may participate.

United States · Pilgrimage shrine

A Franciscan shrine centred on Eucharistic prayer and a community of Poor Clare nuns.

United States · Sacred landscape

A monumental Mississippian settlement whose mounds and burials connect landscape, community and ceremony.

United States · Place of worship

A living congregation where worship and the memory of the 1963 bombing meet the history of civil rights.