Sacred Places of the World

What this quiz asks

• Visitors to Jerusalem's Western Wall traditionally tuck what into the cracks between its stones?
• In Japan, this traditional gate usually marks the entrance to what kind of sacred place?
• The Golden Temple in Amritsar, India, is the holiest shrine of which religion?
• The Kaaba, which Muslims around the world face when they pray, stands in which city?
• Istanbul's Hagia Sophia was first built as a mosque.
• Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, the goal of the Camino pilgrimage, is said to hold the tomb of which apostle?
• The abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel sits on a tidal island off the coast of which French region?
• Select ALL of these that are Buddhist temples.
• Borobudur, a vast 9th-century Buddhist monument, stands on which Indonesian island?
• Is Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock a mosque?
• The holy city of Varanasi, where pilgrims bathe from stone steps called ghats, lies on which river?
• In which town did three shepherd children report visions of the Virgin Mary in 1917, creating a great pilgrimage site?
• Women are not allowed to visit the monastic peninsula of Mount Athos in Greece.
• How tall is the dome of St Peter's Basilica in Rome, measured from the floor to the top of its cross?
• Select ALL of these mosques that are in Istanbul.
• Sensō-ji, Tokyo's oldest temple, stands in which district of the city?
• The medieval churches of Lalibela in Ethiopia are famous for being made in what way?
• Order these churches by the year construction of the present building began, earliest first.
• At Beijing's Temple of Heaven, the Ming and Qing emperors held ceremonies to pray for what?
• Uluru, the great red rock of central Australia, is sacred to which Aboriginal people, its traditional owners?