Sacred places in Iowa

Three places to begin a deeper relationship with Iowa.

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

United States · Sacred landscape

Animal-shaped and other earthworks form a burial landscape that remains significant to affiliated Tribal Nations.

United States · Pilgrimage shrine

An extensive grotto complex uses stone and mineral mosaics to narrate Christian sacred history.

United States · Contemplative centre

A planned Iowa community whose built environment reflects the Maharishi movement’s understanding of Vedic architecture.