Cave Temples or Churches
Built into natural caves with possible outside features and carving.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Budapest | Gellert Cave Chapel | |
| Cilento and Vallo di Diano | Grotta dell'Angelo | |
| Cliff of Bandiagara | Dwellings include altars, sanctuaries | |
| Göreme NP | ||
| Island of Patmos | Cave of the Apocalypse | |
| Longmen Grottoes | ||
| Mogao Caves | ||
| Monastery of Geghard | ||
| Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha | Emeishan's Jiulao Cave of Xianfeng Temple | |
| Mount Wutai | Shancai and Shangshancai cave temples | |
| Ohrid Region | Struga | |
| Paphos | Agia Solomoni | |
| Petra | ||
| Qadisha Valley | ||
| Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple | ||
| Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo | ||
| Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple | Seokguram Grotto | |
| Si Thep | Khao Thamorrat Cave is adorned with ancient buddhas. | |
| Silk Roads Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor | Bin, Maijishan, Kizil and more | |
| Skocjan Caves | A valuable archaeological find in Fly Cave (Slovene: Mušja jama) indicates the influence of Greek civilization, where a cave temple was located after the end of the Bronze Age and in the Iron Age (wiki) | |
| Sulaiman-Too |
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