SacredSites.com, the most visited website of its kind in the world, with over 35 million visitors since its inception, has launched the first in its series of Sacred Earth interactive iBooks - Sacred Europe - by Martin Gray, the world's the leading authority on sacred sites.
The most comprehensive book of its kind ever published, it is also the first fully interactive iBook, developed specifically for the iPad, although a non-interactive eBook version is also available for purchase at the Sacred Sites website.
Gray, who has spent 30 years visiting 140 countries photographing and writing about thousands of sacred sites, was looking to do more than just chronicle his life's work. "I wanted to provide a virtual experience while at the same time, equipping educators with more interactive and fun educational tools for the classroom," he says.
Priced to sell.
"I hope my subscribers, and the over 35 million people who have visited my Sacred Sites website understand that I'm not in this for the money. I merely want to make enough sales to publish Sacred Asia, Americas, Middle East and Africa. If I can do that, I will have completed what I was put on this planet to do," Gray concludes.
Sacred sites covered in Sacred Europe include:
- Church of the Virgin Mary, Geghard Monastery - Armenia
- Etchmiadzin Cathedral - Armenia
- Garni Temple - Armenia
- Khor Virap Monastery - Armenia
- Mt. Ararat - Armenia
- Pilgrimage Church of Mariahilf, Hallstatt - Austria
- Medjugorje - Bosnia
- Rila Monastery - Bulgaria
- Bornholm Island - Denmark
- Abbey of Conques - France
- Basilica of Our Lady of Lourdes - France
- Cathedral of Notre Dame, Le Puy - France
- Church of Three Saints, Saintes de la Mer - France
- Mont-Saint-Michel - France
- Mt. Blanc - France
- Rocamadour - France
- Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert - France
- Vezelay - France
- Gelati - Georgia
- Jvari (Dzhvari) - Georgia
- Uplistsikhe - Georgia
- Externsteine Rocks - Germany
- Church of the Megalohari, Tinos - Greece
- Delphi - Greece
- Monasteries of Mt. Athos - Greece
- Monastery of Rousanou, Meteora - Greece
- Monastery of St. John, Patmos - Greece
- Mt. Olympus - Greece
- Parthenon, Athens - Greece
- Blarney Stone - Ireland
- Carrowkeel - Ireland
- Carrowmore - Ireland
- Holy Wells - Ireland
- Loughcrew - Ireland
- Mt. Croagh Patrick - Ireland
- New Grange, Knowth Dowth - Ireland
- Skellig Michael - Ireland
- The Round Towers - Ireland
- Franciscan Holy Places, Assisi - Italy
- Sanctuary of Monte Gargano - Italy
- Temple of Hera, Paestum - Italy
- The Holy House of Loreto - Italy
- Basilica of Our Lady of Aglona - Latvia
- Hill of Crosses - Lithuania
- Neolithic Temples - Malta
- Ostrog Monastery - Montenegro
- Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim - Norway
- Marian Sanctuary of Jasna Gora, Czestochowa - Poland
- Basilica of Our Lady of Fatima - Portugal
- Cathedral of St. Sophia, Novgorod - Russia
- Monastery of Optina Pustyn - Russia
- Monastery of the Transfiguration, Valaam - Russia
- Monastery of Trinity-St. Sergius, Sergiev Posad - Russia
- Black Virgin of Guadalupe - Spain
- Cathedral of Our Lady of the Pillar, Zaragoza - Spain
- Santiago de Compostela - Spain
- Walled City of Avila - Spain
- The Benedictine Einsieldeln Abbey - Switzerland
- Kiev Perchersk Lavra - Ukraine
- Pochayiv Lavra - Ukraine
- Svyatogorsk Monastery - Ukraine
- Troyitsko-Illynsky Monastery - Ukraine
- Avebury Stone Ring - England, United Kingdom
- Bath - England, United Kingdom
- Callanish Stone Ring - Scotland, United Kingdom
- Canterbury - England, United Kingdom
- Durham and York - England, United Kingdom
- Men-an-Tol Stone, Cornwall - England, United Kingdom
- St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall - England, United Kingdom
- St. Michael's Tower, Glastonbury - England, United Kingdom
- Stonehenge - England, United Kingdom
- Stones of Stenness - Scotland, United Kingdom
- The Cerne Abbas Giant - England, United Kingdom
For more information on Martin Gray, please visit his biography pages.
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