Category: Saved Sites

  • Eldridge Street Synagogue

    [Back to List of Saved Sacred Sites] The Eldridge Street Synagogue Location: New York City, New York Official Listing: National Register of Historic Places, 1980; National Historic Landmark, 1996 Significance: The Eldridge Street Synagogue was built in 1887 as the first house of worship built by Eastern European Jews on the Lower East Side of…

  • Mt. Shasta

    (exerpt from article by Glenn Philips in Site Saver Fall 1998) Magnificent Mount Shasta, the dominant landmark of Northern California, rises 14,162 feet into the sky, looming high above the surrounding landscape, Since 1978, the entire geographical, cultural, and spiritual integrity of Mount Shasta was threatened by a proposed $22 million ski resort and adjacent…

  • Bear’s Lodge (Devil’s Tower), Wyoming

    (excerpt from article by Glenn Phillips in Site Saver Fall 1998) Bear’s Lodge, located in northwestern Wyoming, is a towering 1,280 foot monolith long considered sacred by over twenty tribes in the Plains Nation. Religious and cultural ceremonies have been performed at this site for centuries and include the Sun Dance, sweat lodge rites, vision…

  • Coldwater Springs

    Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 2000 Introduction | 2001 Update | 2008 Update Saving Coldwater The cover story in THE NEWSLETTER OF SACRED SITES INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION, SITE SAVER, Volume XI, Number 1, Fall 2000. by Susu Jeffrey In Minnesota, between Minneapolis and St. Paul, the Mississippi River is joined by the Minnesota River around a triangle island…

  • Miami Circle

    By Christine Rhone When we see how many historic and sacred sites all over the world continue to be disrespected and destroyed, it is heartening to know that the Miami Circle has been saved and will be preserved for future generations. In the words of Ryan J. Wheeler, Archaeology Supervisor of the Florida Bureau of…

  • San Bruno Mountain Shellmound

    South San Francisco, California By Leonard Becker Photo by: Steven Poe.com To Patrick Orozco of the Pajaro Valley Ohlone Indian Council of Watsonville, California, San Bruno Mountain is sacred ground. His ancestral villages are on the mountain and he still feels the presence of the ancient ones. Several shellmounds remain from what were once six…