Pilgrimage

Taking the water and carrying it away is part of what pilgrims do at the sanctuary.

The shell is worn as a pilgrim badge and also marks the route itself.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Pilgrimage was suppressed at the Reformation and revived from the nineteenth century onward, most visibly at Walsingham.

Pilgrimage was suppressed at the Reformation and revived from the nineteenth century onward, most visibly at Walsingham.

Kept in the Armenian Apostolic Church. Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, to Lalibela and to the desert monasteries of Egypt is a settled devotion across these churches.

The pilgrimage to Uman for the New Year draws tens of thousands of men annually and is the largest single gathering of this kind in the Jewish world.

Kept in Chabad-Lubavitch. Pilgrimage to the Western Wall and to the graves of the righteous stands in place of the three pilgrim festivals that required attendance at a Temple that no longer stands.

Kept in the Church of Cyprus, autocephalous since the Council of Ephesus in 431. Pilgrimage to Mount Athos, to Jerusalem and to the shrines of local saints is a settled devotion of this church.

Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. Pilgrimage was suppressed at the Reformation and revived from the nineteenth century onward, most visibly at Walsingham.

Kept in the Church of Greece. Pilgrimage to Mount Athos, to Jerusalem and to the shrines of local saints is a settled devotion of this church.

Kept in the Church of Ireland. Pilgrimage was suppressed at the Reformation and revived from the nineteenth century onward, most visibly at Walsingham.

Kept in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, to Lalibela and to the desert monasteries of Egypt is a settled devotion across these churches.

Pilgrimage to Mount Athos, to Jerusalem and to the shrines of local saints is a settled devotion of this church.

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Pilgrimage to Mount Athos, to Jerusalem and to the shrines of local saints is a settled devotion of this church.

Kept in the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, to Lalibela and to the desert monasteries of Egypt is a settled devotion across these churches.

Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, to Lalibela and to the desert monasteries of Egypt is a settled devotion across these churches.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. Pilgrimage to Mount Athos, to Jerusalem and to the shrines of local saints is a settled devotion of this church.

Kept in the Greek Orthodox churches. Pilgrimage to Mount Athos, to Jerusalem and to the shrines of local saints is a settled devotion of this church.

Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Pilgrimage to the Western Wall and to the graves of the righteous stands in place of the three pilgrim festivals that required attendance at a Temple that no longer stands.

Kept in Hasidic Judaism. Pilgrimage to the Western Wall and to the graves of the righteous stands in place of the three pilgrim festivals that required attendance at a Temple that no longer stands.

Kept in Modern Orthodox Judaism, alongside full engagement with secular study and with the state. Pilgrimage to the Western Wall and to the graves of the righteous stands in place of the three pilgrim festivals that required attendance at a Temple that no longer stands.

Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, to Lalibela and to the desert monasteries of Egypt is a settled devotion across these churches.

Pilgrimage to the Western Wall and to the graves of the righteous stands in place of the three pilgrim festivals that required attendance at a Temple that no longer stands.

Pilgrimage to Rome, to Marian shrines and to the tombs of the saints is a long-standing devotion of this church rather than a private custom.

Kept in the Romanian Orthodox Church, the one Orthodox church of the Byzantine tradition whose language is Romance. Pilgrimage to Mount Athos, to Jerusalem and to the shrines of local saints is a settled devotion of this church.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. Pilgrimage to Mount Athos, to Jerusalem and to the shrines of local saints is a settled devotion of this church.

Pilgrimage to the shrines associated with the apostle Thomas is the devotional centre of this community.

Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church. Pilgrimage to Mount Athos, to Jerusalem and to the shrines of local saints is a settled devotion of this church.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Pilgrimage was suppressed at the Reformation and revived from the nineteenth century onward, most visibly at Walsingham.

Kept in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Pilgrimage to Mount Athos, to Jerusalem and to the shrines of local saints is a settled devotion of this church.

The Easter gathering at Moria is one of the largest annual religious assemblies in Africa, and pilgrimage there is the central corporate act of this church.

Religious worship is not made more acceptable by the place in which it is performed, and this is the ground on which pilgrimage falls.

Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. Religious worship is not made more acceptable by the place in which it is performed, and this is the ground on which pilgrimage falls.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. Pilgrimage stands in the Augsburg Confession among the human traditions urged as though they merited grace, and is refused on that ground rather than as a custom.

Kept in the Dutch Reformed tradition, which holds the Heidelberg Catechism among its confessional standards. Religious worship is not made more acceptable by the place in which it is performed, and this is the ground on which pilgrimage falls.

Kept in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Pilgrimage stands in the Augsburg Confession among the human traditions urged as though they merited grace, and is refused on that ground rather than as a custom.

Pilgrimage stands in the Augsburg Confession among the human traditions urged as though they merited grace, and is refused on that ground rather than as a custom.

Pilgrimage is refused on the ground that no place makes worship more acceptable.

The practice itself.

The annual return to Moria for the Zion Christian Church and to Nkamba for the Kimbanguists gathers these churches in their millions, and each has made a place of its own founding a destination.

Conferences and renewal gatherings draw people across long distances, but the movement has produced no shrine of its own.

A modern waymarked walk laid along the life of Cuthbert.

A seasonal ascent to an ice formation venerated as a lingam.

A walked visitation timed to the fortieth day after Ashura.

A nine-day visit to the Bahai shrines, taken by application.

A network of Christian roads converging on the shrine of Saint James.

The Cantabrian coastal road to Santiago de Compostela.

The principal inland road to Santiago de Compostela.

The Portuguese approach to Santiago de Compostela.

The mountain road from Oviedo, the earliest of the Santiago roads.

A named set of four shrines at the cardinal points of India.

A named set of four Himalayan shrines visited in order.

The obligatory Muslim pilgrimage, fixed in season and in sequence.

Circumambulation of a mountain sacred to four traditions.

A mass carrying of Ganges water to Shiva shrines in Shravan.

The pilgrim roads of the Kii peninsula.

Converging palkhi processions of the Varkari tradition.

A circuit of the five seats of Sikh temporal authority.

The English road to the shrine of Thomas Becket.

A circuit of thirty-three Kannon temples in western Japan.

A circuit of the hill where twenty Jain tirthankaras are held to have attained liberation.

A single-day circuit of seven Roman basilicas.

The eighty-eight temple circuit of Shikoku.

The lesser Muslim pilgrimage, performable at any time of year.

The medieval road to Rome, recovered as a waymarked walking route.

A circuit of the Shia shrine cities of Iraq.