This chapter examines the intersection between the temporality of the modern nation and temporalities of Christian faith in travelogues by two nineteenth-century female travellers to Palestine: Harriet Martineau's Eastern Life: Present and Past (1848) and Fredrika Bremer's Life in the Old World (1860–62). Drawing on pilgrimage studies and research on the temporalitiy of nationalism by Homi K. Bhabha and Anthony D- Smith, this chapter focuses on the different temporalities inscribed in the landscape. Protestant ideas about the progress of humankind, together with a teleological model of historical development, governed Martineau's and Bremer's perceptions as travellers and contributed to their Orientalist conceptualisations as well as their interpretations of the Palestinian geography. However, due to their differing temporalities of faith, their ideas about the Palestinian landscape diverged: while Jerusalem was quintessential for modern nationalism according to Bremer, the city was merely of historical interest to Martineau. Whereas Martineau developed a highly controversial theory of an "Evolution of faith", Bremer's theory relied on Kairos and developed what I have called an "allegorical geography", considering the spread of the Christian gospel to be prefigured by topography.