Cave Temples or Churches

Connected Sites: 23

Definition
Built into natural caves with possible outside features and carving.

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Connected Sites

  • Monastery of Geghard
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.43
    153
    4
  • Sulaiman-Too
    Sulaiman-Too
    Kyrgyzstan
    Inscribed: 2009
    2.23
    63
    3
  • Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.32
    140
    10
    Seokguram Grotto
  • Skocjan Caves
    Inscribed: 1986
    3.65
    231
    10
    A valuable archaeological find in Fly Cave (Slovene: Mušja jama) indicates the influence of Greek civilization, where a cave temple was located after the end of the Bronze Age and in the Iron Age (wiki)
  • Island of Patmos
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.26
    59
    5
    Cave of the Apocalypse
  • Mogao Caves
    Inscribed: 1987
    4.08
    59
    5
  • Cilento and Vallo di Diano
    Inscribed: 1998
    3.39
    169
    5
    Grotta dell'Angelo
  • Budapest
    Budapest
    Hungary
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.88
    546
    15
    Gellert Cave Chapel
  • Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
    Inscribed: 1991
    3.36
    168
    7
  • Yen Tu
    Yen Tu
    Viet Nam
    Inscribed: 2025
    1.87
    11
    2

    King Chu Cavern / Mot Mai Pagoda
  • Si Thep
    Si Thep
    Thailand
    Inscribed: 2023
    2.48
    27
    5
    Khao Thamorrat Cave is adorned with ancient buddhas.
  • Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
    Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
    China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
    Inscribed: 2014
    3.02
    196
    9
    Bin, Maijishan, Kizil and more
  • Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
    Inscribed: 1979
    2.82
    111
    8
  • Qadisha Valley
    Inscribed: 1998
    3.31
    65
    4
  • Petra
    Petra
    Jordan
    Inscribed: 1985
    4.61
    289
    21
  • Paphos
    Paphos
    Cyprus
    Inscribed: 1980
    3.27
    220
    9
    Agia Solomoni
  • Mount Wutai
    Inscribed: 2009
    3.56
    45
    4
    Shancai and Shangshancai cave temples
  • Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha
    Inscribed: 1996
    3.66
    98
    6
    Emeishan's Jiulao Cave of Xianfeng Temple
  • Longobards in Italy
    Inscribed: 2011
    2.81
    227
    14
    Saint Michael's grotto at Monte Sant'Angelo: "The cave comprised two cavities separated by a rock partition: a smaller one (...), where the Archangel purportedly left his footprints and where, at a later date, an altar was erected, known as the altar of the "Footprints". The larger of the two caves (...) was home to the altar upon which Michael is said to have lain his cloak, and a pitcher holding miraculous water (...)." "At a later date, the rock partition dividing the two caverns was demolished, thus creating a single large space". (Nomination file, p. 212, 215)
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Longmen Grottoes
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.88
    100
    7
  • Göreme NP and Cappadocia
    Inscribed: 1985
    4.28
    230
    6
  • Cliff of Bandiagara
    Inscribed: 1989
    3.46
    31
    2
    Dwellings include altars, sanctuaries
  • Ohrid Region
    Ohrid Region
    Albania, North Macedonia
    Inscribed: 1979
    3.41
    205
    7
    Struga