The religious capital or ecclesiastical capital of a region is a place considered pre-eminent by the adherents of a particular religion within that region.
The administrative headquarters of an organised religion may be centralised in a particular location; for example, Rome for the Catholic Church, or Salt Lake City for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In an episcopal church, the site of the cathedral of the primate bishop of an area may be considered its ecclesiastical capital; for example, Armagh is the seat of the primate of All Ireland in both the Catholic church and the Anglican church.
[1] Other places may be considered religious capitals by being centres of learning, such as Qom for Shia Islam in Iran;[2] or places of pilgrimage, such as Jerusalem for the Abrahamic religions and Varanasi for Hinduism.
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