List of Christian holy places in the Holy Land

The primary holy places are connected to the main events in the life of Jesus. Other holy sites are associated with events from the Old Testament, the lives of Mary, John the Baptist, and the Apostles, with endless more associated with later Christian saints, holy men and women, and local traditions. Different Christian denominations all have their particular sites and preferences. Some were only venerated in a particular period and were replaced in later times, and some have been proposed by archaeologists, but have not gained yet much traction due to a lack of tradition or continuity thereof. That leads to a wide range of places that have been venerated, forgotten, (re)discovered, and so forth. Some local traditions are only regionally accepted, and some holy figures and their related sites are recognised only by national Churches. Therefore, this list will always remain incomplete by definition.

The Holy Land is a loose notion. It covers territories which are mainly part of, or controlled by (from north to south), Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, and Egypt. Some cities and sites mentioned in the Bible are farther afield.

Judea was a region inhabited mainly by Jews. Today it is split between Israel and the West Bank, the latter parts being contested by Palestine.

The Jordan River borders several regions from the time of Jesus - Gaulanitis and Galilee, Decapolis, Samaria, Perea and Judea.

• The Jordan River: John the Baptist has preached and baptised at several sites along the river. The most important site is that of the Baptism of Jesus, traditionally identified with the site of Al-Maghtas on the East Bank in Jordan and extending onto the West Bank at Qasr al-Yahud.

The Tetrarchy of Philip, the son of Herod the Great, included parts of today's Golan Heights and covered territories northeast of the Galilee.

• Caesarea Philippi; it its region took place the confession of Peter Philip the Tetrarch

Biblical Galilee is nowadays mainly in Israel, with a small part in southern Lebanon. It was inhabited mainly by Jews, but with a substantial number of other communities.

• Nazareth is Jesus's hometown and the scriptural place of the Annunciation, venerated at the Grotto of the Annunciation and the apocryphal site at Mary's Well, with a host of other minor holy places
• Cana of the Galilee is the town where Jesus made his first miracle by turning the water into wine. Several sites have been venerated as biblical Cana, of which all but one are today in Israel and one in Lebanon.
• Mount Tabor, traditional site of the Transfiguration of Jesus
• Sepphoris, identified some Crusaders as the place where the Virgin Mary has spent her childhood, with a site in Jerusalem being another traditional contender
• Sea of Galilee with Capernaum (the "city of Jesus"), Tabgha (traditional site of the feeding of the 5000 and the miraculous catch of fish), the Mount of Beatitudes overlooking the lake, Kursi (Gergesa where Jesus exorcised the Gerasene demoniac) and Yardenit Baptismal Site, a baptism site located along the Jordan River, near Kibbutz Kvutzat Kinneret.

Samaria was a region inhabited mainly by Samaritans, a nation generally hostile to the Jews, and therefore mostly avoided by them. Today it is part of the West Bank, occupied by Israel and contested by Palestine.

• Jacob's Well at "Sychar", a name used in the Gospels either for Shechem (today's Nablus) or a place nearby (John 4:5–6), where Jesus met the Samaritan woman and revealed to her that he was the Messiah (John 4:7–15)

• The road to Damascus, where Saul of Tarsus, the persecutor of Christians, converted and became Paul, the apostle of Christianity
• Damascus: the Umayyad Mosque is built at the site of the ancient Christian cathedral, which allegedly held as a relic the head of John the Baptist
• Mount Hermon is a less accepted contender for being the site of the Transfiguration of Jesus (see Mount Tabor)

Jesus visited the region of Sidon and Tyre, where he preached and exorcised a woman's daughter. St Paul sailed for Rome from Sidon (Acts 27:3, 4).

• Sidon on the Phoenician coast
• Tyre on the Phoenician coast
• Qana, one contender from South Lebanon for Cana in Galilee (for more see there)

• Al-Maghtas, the traditional site of the Baptism of Jesus, situated on the East Bank in Jordan, recognised by all major traditional Christian Churches, and extending onto the West Bank at Qasr al-Yahud. It also contains a cave associated with John the Baptist, situated among the ruins of a Byzantine monastery (not to be confused with the "Cave of Saint John the Baptist" from Tzova near Jerusalem).
• Machaerus, the Herodian fortress where John the Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded
• Mount Nebo, traditional site of the death of Moses and where he looked over to the "promised land"

• The Red Sea, where Moses parted the sea in order to escape slavery
• Saint Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai near Mount Sinai and associated with the burning bush (The Exodus|Exodus)

• A Lantern Slide tour of the Holy Land (Late 19th century photos)