Sanctuary

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Sanctuary - Sacred or safe place, often revered, protected and/or preserved. Includes buildings, places of refuge, reservations, and other areas often associated with worship, protection, and/or safety.. Article “Sanctuary” in Simple English Wikipedia has 6.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Sanctuary”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 868 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 40 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7989 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2455 in June 2016
• Global: #8437 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9166 in December 2017
• Global: #17060 in October 2008

There are 22 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Sanctuary		53.3287
2	Latin (la) Sanctuarium		42.0602
3	Tamil (ta) சரணாலயம்		36.2816
4	Italian (it) Santuario		35.396
5	Hungarian (hu) Szentély		27.2228
6	German (de) Heiligtum		26.8262
7	French (fr) Sanctuaire		25.0611
8	Croatian (hr) Svetište		24.3024
9	Portuguese (pt) Santuário		23.2494
10	Persian (fa) بست		23.0954

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sanctuary		3 966 799
2	Spanish (es) Santuario (edificio)		539 156
3	French (fr) Sanctuaire		495 633
4	Italian (it) Santuario		332 489
5	Portuguese (pt) Santuário		304 409
6	German (de) Heiligtum		269 971
7	Persian (fa) بست		92 712
8	Russian (ru) Санктуарий		87 055
9	Hungarian (hu) Szentély		48 123
10	Dutch (nl) Heiligdom		40 787

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sanctuary		5 807
2	Italian (it) Santuario		682
3	French (fr) Sanctuaire		608
4	German (de) Heiligtum		506
5	Russian (ru) Санктуарий		343
6	Portuguese (pt) Santuário		327
7	Persian (fa) بست		266
8	Chinese (zh) 聖所		214
9	Spanish (es) Santuario (edificio)		149
10	Hungarian (hu) Szentély		74

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sanctuary		262
2	Italian (it) Santuario		132
3	French (fr) Sanctuaire		107
4	German (de) Heiligtum		100
5	Spanish (es) Santuario (edificio)		64
6	Portuguese (pt) Santuário		41
7	Catalan (ca) Santuari		25
8	Dutch (nl) Heiligdom		24
9	Hungarian (hu) Szentély		23
10	Latin (la) Sanctuarium		23

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sanctuary		1
2	French (fr) Sanctuaire		1
3	Arabic (ar) حرم		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Санктуариум		0
5	Catalan (ca) Santuari		0
6	Danish (da) Helligdom		0
7	German (de) Heiligtum		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Sanktejo		0
9	Spanish (es) Santuario (edificio)		0
10	Persian (fa) بست		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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