Today, “sacred” is a broad and generously deployed word. Sporting areas are sacred, bedrooms too. The English word emerged in the late Middle Ages to connote the bread and wine of Eucharist, but its ...

Since the dawn of history, human societies have ascribed sacred status to certain places. Areas such as ancestral burial grounds, temples and churchyards have been given protection through taboo and ...

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Sacred sites around the world face an uncomfortable paradox. The very tourism that brings awareness and economic support also contributes to their degradation. Every year, millions of visitors arrive ...

On Dakota homeland, sacred sites connected by water make up the Bdote sacred landscape. The Twin Cities area—and all of southern Minnesota—is Dakota homeland. A series of sites along the Mississippi ...

Most of the 356,000 churches, synagogues, mosques and other religious congregations in the United States conduct worship services on weekends but supply social services all week long. Sadly, the older ...

The annual Sacred Sites Open House weekend organized by the New York Landmark Conservancy includes multiple Brooklyn sites.

An aerial view captures an image of Madison nestled between large bodies of water surrounded by an expanse of green. Visible from high above are the stately buildings erected over time, on the isthmus ...

Do you have a "sacred place?" A special place that connects you to the deepest parts of yourself, to your personal history, and your most dearly cherished dreams and memories? We all need our own ...