Collections
Browse sacred site types before you browse individual places.
These collections turn recurring sacred-travel patterns into explicit browse lanes instead of leaving them buried across unrelated place profiles.
Site types
Five site-type lanes are now live
These hubs now come from a typed taxonomy instead of one-off route pages, which makes the collection layer reusable across place, journey, and hub surfaces.
Sacred mountains
Sacred mountains
Use mountain collections when ascent, sacred topography, and shrine or temple presence matter as much as the destination itself.
Journeys
Start with the strongest route already live
Places
Anchor the site type in real places
Pilgrimage cities
Pilgrimage cities
Use city collections when shrine clusters, sacred streets, and layered devotional neighborhoods are stronger than one isolated monument.
Places
Anchor the site type in real places
Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church
A Christian ensemble in Canterbury where cathedral liturgy, monastic mission history, and enduring parish worship still read together as one sacred inheritance.
Churches and Convents of Goa
A Christian sacred ensemble where living churches, convent ruins, relic devotion, and missionary memory still keep Old Goa legible as one devotional landscape rather than separate colonial-era monuments.
Lumbini
A foundational Buddhist pilgrimage site centered on birth, memory, archaeology, and continuing devotion.
Monastic islands
Monastic islands
Use island-monastery collections when enclosure, water, and a bounded religious landscape define the sacred experience.
Places
Anchor the site type in real places
Mount Athos
A monastic peninsula where monasteries, sketes, sacred rule, and restricted access still hold together one of Christianity's most continuous spiritual territories.
Solovetsky Monastery
A monastery ensemble in the Solovetsky monastic ensemble where cathedral, churches, bell tower, walls, and harbor setting still read as one complete Orthodox monastic world.
Holy wells
Holy wells
Use water-centered collections when springs, healing waters, and devotional stopping places matter more than monumental scale.
Journeys
Start with the strongest route already live
Places
Anchor the site type in real places
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Rock-cut sanctuaries
Rock-cut sanctuaries
Use rock-cut collections when cave carving, cliff-side devotion, and excavated sacred space define the route logic.
Journeys
Start with the strongest route already live
Ajanta Painted Vihara Circuit
A cliffside Buddhist route that reads Ajanta through its major painted monastery caves rather than treating the site as one viewpoint plus a few famous murals.
Ajanta Chaitya Hall Route
An Ajanta route that reads the cliff sanctuary through its chaitya halls rather than only through painted monastery caves.
Places
Anchor the site type in real places
Ajanta Caves
A cliffside Buddhist cave complex where painting, monastic architecture, and river-valley setting all shape the encounter.
Dambulla Cave Temple
A living Buddhist cave-shrine complex where ritual movement is shaped by painting, sculpture, and the interior sequence of the caves.
Seokguram Grotto
A granite grotto sanctuary where one monumental Buddha, a domed stone chamber, and a mountain-edge setting create an unusually focused Buddhist space.
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The taxonomy can expand from here
The next site-type slices can deepen these five lanes into fuller browse surfaces without reopening route intake or adding new one-off templates.