Welcome

Welcome to Sacred Destinations Images, a stock image database specializing in sacred art, religious architecture and historic religious sites.

Sacred Destinations Images is associated with the Sacred Destinations website, which provides detailed information on most sites pictured here.

The scope of the database is worldwide, but our collection has a particular strength in ancient and medieval sites in western Europe.

All photos are carefully captioned and expertly keyworded so you can easily find what you need - even if you don't know exactly what that is yet.

To discover new treasures, try browsing our galleries by theme or location.

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Search our database of 4,921 images:

Tips: Searches are not case sensitive. For best results, use American English spelling and the noun form to specify a country: e.g. 'france stained glass'.

To search within a specific century, enter the letter 'c' followed by a number. For example, 'c12' will search art and architecture from the 12th century and 'c4bc' will search the 4th century BC.

To search for a saint, use the full word 'saint' instead of 'st.'. For example, 'saint paul' will return portraits of Paul but not photos of St. Paul's Cathedral.

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countries

England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy,
Morocco, Spain, Switzerland, USA, Wales

styles

Prehistoric, Roman, Early Christian, Byzantine, Carolingian, Merovingian, Romanesque, Gothic, Baroque, Modern

centuries

5th BC, 1st BC, 1st AD, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 11th,
12th, 13th, 16th, 20th