Holy cities

Axum or Aksum (Tigrinya: ኣኽሱም? /axsum/, Amharic: አክሱም? /aksum/) is a city in the northern part of Ethiopia.

Shiloh (Heb: שִׁלוֹ ,שִׁילֹה ,שִׁלֹה, and שִׁילוֹ variably) was an ancient city in Samaria mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.

Tiberias (/taɪˈbɪəriəs/; Hebrew: טְבֶרְיָה, Tveria, ; Arabic: طبرية‎‎, Tabariyyah; Ancient Greek: Τιβεριάς, Tiberias) is an Israeli city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee.

Lhasa is a city and administrative capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.

Vagharshapat (Armenian: Վաղարշապատ pronounced [vɑʁɑɾʃɑˈpɑt]) is the fourth-largest city in Armenia and the most populous town in Armavir Province, located about 18 km (11 mi) west of the capital Yerevan, and 10 km (6 mi) north of the Armenian-Turkish border.

Vladimir (Russian: Владимир; IPA: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr] ) is a city and the administrative center of Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the Klyazma River, 200 kilometers (120 mi) to the east of Moscow.

Mtskheta (Georgian: მცხეთა [mtsʰxɛtʰɑ]) is a city in Kartli province of Georgia.

The Khajuraho Group of Monuments is a group of Hindu and Jain temples in Madhya Pradesh, India, about 175 kilometres (109 mi) southeast of Jhansi.

Lod (Hebrew: לוֹד; Arabic: اللُّدّ‎‎ al-Ludd; Greco-Latin: Lydda, Diospolis, Ancient Greek: Λύδδα / Διόσπολις - city of Zeus) is a mixed Jewish-Arab city 15 km (9.3 mi) southeast of Tel Aviv in the Center District of Israel.

Ephesus (/ˈɛfəsəs/; Greek: Ἔφεσος Ephesos; Turkish: Efes; ultimately from Hittite Apasa) was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia, three kilometres southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey.

Antioch on the Orontes (/ˈæntiˌɒk/; also Syrian Antioch) was an ancient Greco-Roman city on the eastern side of the Orontes River.

In the Book of Ezekiel, New Jerusalem (יְהוָה שָׁמָּה, Jehovah-shammah, or "[where] YHWH [is] there") is Ezekiel's prophetic vision of a city centered on the rebuilt Holy Temple, the Third Temple, to be established in Jerusalem, that will be the capital of the Messianic Kingdom, the meeting place of the twelve tribes of Israel, during the Messianic era.

Nara (奈良市 Nara-shi) is the capital city of Nara Prefecture located in the Kansai region of Japan.

Safed (Hebrew: צְפַת Tsfat, Ashkenazi: Tzfas, Biblical: Ṣ'fath; Arabic: صفد‎‎, Ṣafad) is a city in the Northern District of Israel.

Ise (伊勢市 Ise-shi), formerly called Ujiyamada (宇治山田), is a city located on the eastern tip of Kii Peninsula, in central Mie Prefecture (formally in Ise Province), on the island of Honshū, Japan, facing Ise Bay.

Nazareth (/ˈnæzərəθ/; Hebrew: נָצְרַת, Naṣrat; Aramaic: ܢܨܪܬ‎‎, Naṣrath; Arabic: النَّاصِرَة‎‎, an-Nāṣira) is the capital and the largest city in the Northern District of Israel.

Ashkelon (/æʃkɛloʊn/ also spelled Ashqelon and Ascalon; Hebrew: [aʃkelon]; Arabic: عسقلان‎‎ ʿAsqalān) is a coastal city in the Southern District of Israel on the Mediterranean coast, 50 kilometres (31 mi) south of Tel Aviv, and 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north of the border with the Gaza Strip.

Shikharji (Marathi: Śikharajī), Giridih district, Jharkhand, India, is located on Parasnath, the highest mountain of the Parasnath Range.

Gommatagiri is about 20 km from Mysore.

The Pushpagiri Temple Complex is situated in the Cuddapah district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Pathibhara is a village development committee in Sankhuwasabha District in the Kosi Zone of north-eastern Nepal.

(This article is about the town in India. For the former princely state, see Palitana State. For the hill near town, see Shatrunjaya. For the Jain temples on hill, see Palitana temples.) Palitana is a city in Bhavnagar district, Gujarat, India.

Meherabad (meher flourishing: "abad" meaning a prosperous settlement, or a flourishing colony) was originally an ashram established by Meher Baba near Arangaon Village, India in 1923 about 9 kilometres (6 mi) south of Ahmednagar.

Al-Kāẓimiyyah (Arabic: الكاظمية‎‎) or al-Kāẓimayn (الكاظمين) is a northern neighbourhood of Baghdad, Iraq about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the city center on the west bank of the Tigris.