Sacred Places
18 places found
Hinduism
Maa Mahalakshmi Temple
· Bangladesh · temple
A Shakti Pitha near Sylhet in Bangladesh, revered as the place where the neck of the Goddess Sati is said to have fallen, honored today as Maa Mahalakshmi beside her consort Sambaranand.
HinduismMaa Sugandha Temple
· Bangladesh · temple
A revered Hindu Shakta pitha in Shikarpur village near Barisal, Bangladesh, where the nose of Devi Sati is held to have fallen, manifested in the form of the goddess Sunanda.
HinduismMuktagachha Shiva Temple
· Bangladesh · temple
A twin Hindu Temple beside the Rajbari of Muktagachha in Mymensingh District, Bangladesh, raised in 1820 and devoted jointly to Shiva and the goddess Maa Kali.
HinduismRamna Kali Temple
Dhaka · Bangladesh · temple
In the Ramna quarter of Dhaka, this Temple to Maa Kali was destroyed in the 1971 Liberation War and rose again five decades later, reconsecrated in December 2021 as both a living shrine and a memorial to those killed there.
HinduismShree Shree Siddheswari Kalimandir
Dhaka · Bangladesh · temple
A historic Kali Temple in the heart of Dhaka, revered as the shrine of Maa Siddheswari, whose presence has lent her name to the surrounding neighbourhood for centuries. It remains among the oldest functioning Hindu Temples in the city and a gathering place for Bengali Shakta devotion in Bangladesh.
HinduismSwami Bagh Temple
· Bangladesh · temple
A prominent ISKCON-managed Vaishnava Temple and ashram in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from which the annual Jagannath Rath Yatra of the capital begins each year.