Sacred places in South Carolina

Three places to begin a deeper relationship with South Carolina.

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

United States · Monastery

A monastery on the Cooper River where contemplative community life sits within a landscape that also carries the history of enslavement.

United States · Place of worship

A historic Jewish congregation whose synagogue is associated with the development of Reform Judaism in the United States.

United States · Religious heritage

The ruins of a chapel of ease preserve a former place of worship within the complex history of the Sea Islands.