Normally churches are built on the surface but there are special cases when you gotta go deep underground to reach the altar. Cave churches are real and they are phenomenal! I would imagine the atmosphere in these places is nothing like your usual above-ground chapels. Did you know that some of the oldest churches and monasteries were actually built inside caves? There’s no better place to speak to your god than a hole in a huge rock or a side of the mountain. And that’s not me being sarcastic, I genuinely think that.
1) Mihalich Cave Church, Bulgaria
2) Callao Cave Chapel, Philippines
3) Troglodyte chapel at the bottom of the Gorges Galamus, France
4) Chapel Of the Blessed King, Wieliczka Salt Mine, Krakow, Poland
5) Temppeliaukio Church, Helsinki
6) The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá, Zipaquirá, Colombia
7) Serbian Orthodox Church in Coober Pedy, Australia
8) Troglodyte Sainte-Marie Madeleine Holy Cave, Sainte-Baume Mountain, Provence, France
9) The Cave Churches of Goreme, Turkey
10) Panagria Hrysospiliotissa, under the Temple of Dionyso, Greece
