1000 Sacred Places

Download or read book 1000 Sacred Places written by Christoph Engels and published by Hf Ullmann. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spiritual journey around the world! Holy places and spiritual sites are found throughout the world. In addition to the holy sites of the great religions, you can find countless spiritual places of indigenous peoples and vanished cultures. This book represents 1,000 such special places, including some of the great Christian cathedrals in Europe; pilgrim paths and places of pilgrimage; Hindu, Buddhist and Shinto temples in Asia; the most important mosques of the Islam; natural sanctuaries in Africa, America and Australia; prehistoric cult sites and modern sanctuaries. Richly illustrated with hundreds of color photographs, this book invites the reader to a spiritual journey through history and the cultures of the world.