Sacred Places
584 places found
IslamAbu'l-Fida Mosque
Hama · Syria · mosque
A fourteenth-century Ayyubid mausoleum and Mamluk-era congregational mosque on the banks of the Orontes in Hama, Syria, known locally as the Mosque of the Serpents for the carved pillars at its windows.
IslamAdhai Din Ka Jhonpra
Ajmer · India · mosque
The oldest surviving monument in Ajmer and among the earliest Indo-Islamic mosques in India, its 1199 CE prayer hall and Iltutmish's 1213 CE arched screen rise on 344 pillars carved by Hindu and Jain craftsmen from earlier Temples.
IslamAdina Mosque
Pandua · India · mosque
Once the largest mosque on the Indian subcontinent, the Adina Mosque at Pandua in West Bengal was raised by Sultan Sikandar Shah between 1373 and 1375 as the congregational mosque of the Bengal Sultanate, and holds his tomb within its western wall.
JainismAdinatha Temple
Khajuraho · India · temple
A Digambara Jain shrine within Khajuraho's Eastern Group of Temples, dedicated to Lord Adinatha, the first tirthankara, its curvilinear sandstone tower carved in the late eleventh century for a Hindu patron before passing into Jain hands.
ZoroastrianismAdrian Temple
Tehran · Iran · shrine
Tehran's only active Zoroastrian fire Temple, the Adrian Temple has sheltered a continuously tended flame since its consecration in 1917, a lineage of fire traced to at least 470 CE.
JainismAharji
Aharji · India · temple
A Digambara Jain tirtha in the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh, where an eighteen-foot Chandella-era colossus of Lord Shantinatha stands in silent meditation at the heart of a Temple complex raised across three centuries.
JainismAhinsa Sthal
New Delhi · India · temple
A modern Digambara Jain shrine on a terrace in Mehrauli, New Delhi, built in 1980 around a colossal granite image of Lord Mahavira seated in deep meditation, its very name declaring the tradition's central vow: ahimsa, harmlessness toward every living being.
HinduismAiravatesvara Temple, Darasuram
Darasuram (Kumbakonam) · India · temple
The third of the Great Living Chola Temples, raised by Rajaraja Chola II around 1166 CE at Darasuram near Kumbakonam: a chariot-form shrine of Lord Shiva as Airavatesvara, famed for its carved stone wheels, its singing steps, and worship that has continued for over eight centuries.
Hinduism
Aisanyesvara Siva Temple
Bhubaneswar · India · temple
A living thirteenth-century Shiva shrine in the Old Town of Bhubaneswar, standing close to the western wall of the great Lingaraj Temple, where a Shivalinga set within a circular yonipitha still receives daily worship in the Kalinga architectural tradition.
JainismAjmer Jain Temple
Ajmer · India · temple
Popularly called Soniji Ki Nasiyan or the Red Temple, this Digambara Jain Temple on Prithviraj Marg in Ajmer pairs a red sandstone sanctuary, crowned by an eighty two foot marble pillar, with a golden upper hall whose gilded tableaux retell the life of Lord Rishabhdev, the first tirthankara.
IslamAjmer Sharif Dargah
Ajmer · India · dargah
The tomb of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, Gharib Nawaz, the benefactor of the poor, and the principal Sufi dargah of South Asia, where pilgrims of every community have offered chadars and shared the sweet rice of the great deghs for eight centuries.
Islam
Akbarabadi Mosque
Delhi · India · mosque
A mosque raised in 1650 by Akbarabadi Begum, a wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, in the walled city of Shahjahanabad, demolished by British forces in the aftermath of the 1857 Uprising and today marked only by disputed, unexcavated remains beneath Netaji Subhash Park in Old Delhi.