pilgrimage

Turki al-Maliki said the targeting of Mecca, which is the home of Islam's most sacred shrine and the focal point of the Hajj pilgrimage, was a "disgraceful act".

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

It estimates that Himalayan water underpins roughly 20% of India's GDP, sustaining wheat, rice, tea, hydropower and pilgrimage economies.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

The experience of pilgrimage became a ritual, and there’s a ghostly quality to these pictures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Even snobbishly independent travelers like us, we concluded, could find inspiration in the traditions, landscapes, camaraderie and hospitality a pilgrimage offers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

In June 1877, he and Emma, along with Frank, Bernard, and the baby’s nursemaid, made a pilgrimage to the great prehistoric monument Stonehenge.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

Fans trade tips in online communities and treat new locations as pilgrimages.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

Joining most events no longer depends on being in a particular place, which is one reason modern pilgrimages appear old-fashioned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

They’re the golden child of the produce aisle, the ingredient that inspires pilgrimages to farmers markets and endless declarations that this is the year we’ll finally grow our own.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

Starting in the fourth century, pilgrimages were served up by the church as a way for Christians to pay penance for their sins.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026

Which isn't really surprising, I suppose; this was also the age of ecclesiastical mazes - which may have served as metaphors for pilgrimages to Jerusalem - such as those at Chartres and Lucca Cathedrals.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

A Chicago native, I have admittedly fond memories of post-Little League hot dogs and Italian beef sandwiches, and have pilgrimaged to Buena Park to sample the SoCal outpost.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024

Veterans of World War II, many of them centenarians and likely returning to France for one last time, pilgrimaged Tuesday to what was the bloodiest of five Allied landing beaches on June 6, 1944.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

In avant-garde New York, one of the most pilgrimaged sites has been the “Dream House,” a sensory environment that since 1993 has occupied the third story of a walk-up on Church Street in Lower Manhattan.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

He became their fighter and savior, and these mega-fans pilgrimaged to his concert-like rallies.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2021

Farther up the coast, in Sonoma County, we pilgrimaged to the sites of the Russian settlements. 

From A Collection of Stories by Jack London

I returned from vacation just in time to join the pilgrimaging hordes carting cumbersome picnic baskets and enough wine for a few dozen Sicilian weddings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025

Also new is the addition of several specific barbecue trails, from urban adventuring to rural pilgrimaging.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2016

Since the days of the palmers, pilgrimaging to Jerusalem has become less and less devout, until now many people visit the Holy City with no higher motive than curiosity.

From Time Magazine Archive

If I were a stout workman, they would have robbed me of the fruit of three years’ toil by making me go pilgrimaging.

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster

I was introduced to all the neighbours, to the visitors and the natives, and of course invested with much importance as one who wrote books, had no fear, who even intended pilgrimaging to Jerusalem.

From A Tramp's Sketches by Stephen Graham