Sacred Places
217 places found
HinduismPadmanabhaswamy Temple
· India · temple
A Hindu Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, dedicated to Vishnu as Anantha Padmanabhaswamy and counted among the 108 Divya Desams of the Sri Vaishnava tradition.
HinduismParsurameswara Temple
Bhubaneswar · India · temple
Raised around 650 CE in the heart of Bhubaneswar, Parsurameswara Temple is widely regarded as the best-preserved early Odia Temple to survive from the Shailodbhava era, its sandstone tower rising over one of the oldest sacred sites in the city.
HinduismParthasarathy Temple
Chennai · India · temple
A Vaishnavite sanctuary in the Triplicane quarter of Chennai consecrated to Lord Krishna in his form as Parthasarathy, charioteer of Arjuna, and counted among the 108 Divya Desams sung by the Alvar saints.
HinduismPrahadisvarar Temple
· India · temple
A monumental Shaivite sanctuary completed around 1010 CE by Chola emperor Rajaraja I on the Cauvery's southern bank in Thanjavur, the Prahadisvarar Temple, also called Brihadisvara, ranks among the grandest expressions of Tamil sacred architecture and is enshrined within UNESCO's Great Living Chola Temples.
HinduismPrem Mandir
Vrindavan · India · temple
A modern white marble Temple on the edge of Vrindavan raised by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj, its carved walls telling the life of Sri Krishna in stone and its evenings turning the whole facade to coloured light.
Hinduism
Puthiyakavu Devi Temple
· India · temple
A Hindu Temple of the Devi at Ponkunnam in the Kottayam district of Kerala, India, long honoured as a resting place for pilgrims on the way to the Ayyappa shrine at Sabarimala.
HinduismRajarani Temple
Bhubaneswar · India · temple
An eleventh-century sandstone shrine in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, Rajarani Temple takes its name from the warm red and gold stone of its walls, its tower rising in a clustered, rounded silhouette unlike any other Temple in the city.
HinduismRamanathaswamy Temple
· India · temple
A supremely sacred Śaiva Temple on the island of Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, housing one of the twelve Jyotirliṅgas and revered as a Char Dhām site where, by tradition, Lord Rāma himself worshipped Shiva before crossing to Laṅkā.
HinduismRamappa Temple
Palampet · India · temple
A thirteenth-century Kakatiya Shiva Temple beside Ramappa Lake, inscribed by UNESCO in 2021, and popularly named not for its god but for Ramappa, the sculptor who carved it.
HinduismRam Mandir
· India · temple
Rising at the sacred site venerated across millennia as Ram Janmabhoomi, the birthplace of Lord Rama, this grand Hindu Temple complex in Ayodhya consecrated its presiding deity, Ram Lalla (Infant Rama), in January 2024, drawing hundreds of thousands of pilgrims within its first day alone.
HinduismRudra Mahalaya Temple
Siddhpur · India · temple
The Rudra Mahalaya, or Rudramal, was one of the largest and most richly carved Shiva Temples ever raised in Gujarat, begun by the Chaulukya king Mularaja in 943 CE and consecrated two centuries later by Jayasimha Siddharaja. What survives at Siddhpur today is a dignified fragment: two carved torans, four pillars of the central shrine, and a western range later rebuilt as the town's Jami Masjid.
HinduismRudranath Temple
Gopeshwar · India · temple
A natural rock shrine at about 3,600 m in the Garhwal Himalaya where the face of Lord Shiva is worshipped as Neelkanth Mahadev, the hardest of the Panch Kedar to reach.