Celestial City

American  

noun

1. the goal of Christian's journey in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; the heavenly Jerusalem.

2. New Jerusalem.

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Example Sentences

In that book, the pilgrim extricates himself from the Slough of Despond—essentially a giant water hazard—and makes his way to the aptly named Celestial City.

From Golf Digest • Dec. 17, 2018

But, unlike the stricken Christian, Van Dyk does not reach his Celestial City.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2017

Bunyan’s allegorical City of Destruction — and also, perhaps, the Celestial City that is its antithesis — is incarnated by modern Los Angeles.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2016

This motif, sounding like an ecstatic awakening, obsessed him: he used it in The Pilgrim's Progress to denote the Christian pilgrim arriving at his goal, the Celestial City.

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2010

Therefore, O Blessed Inhabitants of the Celestial City, I entreat you to adopt me as your child.

From The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse by Taylor, Thomas N. (Thomas Nimmo)