Pilgrimage Maps

Explore antique and vintage maps charting pilgrimage across faiths and continents. The collection ranges from Hajj guides to...

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Explore antique and vintage maps charting pilgrimage across faiths and continents. The collection ranges from Hajj guides to Mecca and historic caravan routes across Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and North Africa, to Buddhist and Shinto pilgrimage maps of Shikoku and Ise, Indian sacred sites, Holy Land pilgrim maps and the sanctuaries of France. It includes practical route maps, pictorial guides, plans of pilgrims’ camps and wider regional maps on which journeys to sacred destinations are carefully marked, together with an allegorical map inspired by Pilgrim’s Progress. Dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, these maps reveal how cartographers recorded devotion, ritual, mobility and sacred geography, and offer distinctive material for collectors of religious history, travel and antique cartography.

Explore antique and vintage maps charting pilgrimage across faiths and continents. The collection ranges from Hajj guides to Mecca and historic caravan routes across Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and North Africa, to Buddhist and Shinto pilgrimage maps of Shikoku and Ise, Indian sacred sites, Holy Land pilgrim maps and the sanctuaries of France. It includes practical route maps, pictorial guides, plans of pilgrims’ camps and wider regional maps on which journeys to sacred destinations are carefully marked, together with an allegorical map inspired by Pilgrim’s Progress. Dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, these maps reveal how cartographers recorded devotion, ritual, mobility and sacred geography, and offer distinctive material for collectors of religious history, travel and antique cartography.

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