Sacred places in Mississippi

Three places to begin a deeper relationship with Mississippi.

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

United States · Place of worship

A monumental platform mound associated with the ancestors of the Natchez people and their ceremonial landscape.

United States · Place of worship

A former cathedral and continuing parish whose Gothic interior expresses the Catholic history of Natchez.

Original atlas illustration · Mississippi

United States · Place of worship

A Jewish congregation whose worship and community memory include the struggle against antisemitic violence during the civil-rights era.