Glasgow
Carfin Grotto and Pilgrimage Centre
Scotland's National Shrine
100 Newarthill Road
Motherwell, ML1 5AL
Phone: +44 1698 26 8941
Fax: +44 1698 26 8941
Website | EmailBuilt in the early 1920s by local unemployed miners, this lovely grotto welcomes thousands of visitors from all over the world who come to pray in peace and tranquility. Modelled on the Lourdes Grotto in France, it has many features including a glass chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title Maid of the Seas, in memory of those who died in the Lockerbie disaster. A small bridge over a stream takes you to the chapel, with each brick on the bridge bearing the Papal crest, each one purchased by a Catholic at the time of the Pope's visit to Scotland in 1982. There is also a subterranean cavern representing the Cave of Bethlehem, a relic room, shrines to various saints and monuments to those who died in wars and the Irish potato famine. The Centre was opened in 1996 and, through an audio-visual presentation and exhibition, traces the history of pilgrimage worldwide. Admission: free
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