What places do you find spiritually uplifting?

[AMumInScotland]

Not necessarily from a religious point of view, but places where it all just feels "right" somehow.

I was thinking about this on holiday, as I felt the same sort of lift in Chartres Cathedral (a beautiful patch of flickering sunlight on the floor by the candles), and the Musee d'Orangerie (Monet's waterlilies in an amazing setting).

I find mountains incredibly uplifting. Don't have to be very high- I especially love the Black Mountains and Brecon Beacons. I always feel closer to God when out in the wild.

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anywhere near the sea.

for me it's the sea

The faerie pools on Skye.

Kettle's Yard in Cambridge.

Kew Gardens and Little Cloister in Westminster Abbey

Edinburgh. I feel like I have arrived home when I go to Edinburgh. I feel an aching sensation to move there to live.

cathedrals, churches, gazing out at the sea, gazing out at the landcape from the top of a peak in the Lake District
Most impressive buildings give me a lift somehow, the celilings in the British Museum for example, or just wtching London go by as you leave on a train from Charing Cross

Fountains Abbey in N. Yorkshire is wonderful too

My special beach. The sea does it every time really.

i trekked up mount sinai overnight

loads of people but still magical as a collective esperience waiting for sunrise

in fact being with all those people from all over the world part of the spiritual sensation and the physical effort/history

Byron Bay in Australia - a truly magical place
Worth Abbey in Sussex - a real haven for me and escape from life
And of course Newcastle - where my heart lies and I believe I really belong, I miss is every day Im away

me too prune im not religious at all but i love York Minster

we had many family holidays to York when i was little and i begged to to the Minster every time

also Lunan Bay in Angus

its like a secret beach that no one else knows about

I've never felt spiritual uplift in any of the places where it's expected. On the rare occasions that it's happened, it's been in places like supermarkets, or the office, or in my back garden. I'm afraid churches and cathedrals leave me cold.

I've never felt spiritual uplift in any of the places where it's expected. On the rare occasions that it's happened, it's been in places like supermarkets, or the office, or in my back garden. I'm afraid churches and cathedrals leave me cold.