Sacred Places
217 places found
HinduismRukmini Devi Temple
Dwarka · India · temple
A shrine to Maa Rukmini, chief queen of Lord Krishna and worshipped as an incarnation of Goddess Lakshmi, its carved tower rising two kilometres from Dwarka's Dwarkadhish Temple on the Gujarat coast.
HinduismSabarimala Temple complex
· India · temple
Perched atop a forested hill in Kerala's Pathanamthitta district, the Sabarimala Sree Dharma Sastha Temple draws between ten and fifteen million pilgrims annually, ranking among the world's most-visited sacred sites, its deity Lord Ayyappan revered as the divine offspring of Shiva and Mohini.
HinduismSankat Mochan Hanuman Temple
Varanasi · India · temple
A beloved Hanuman Temple on the Assi in Varanasi, founded by the poet-saint Tulsidas at the place of his vision of Lord Hanuman, and rebuilt in its present form around 1900.
HinduismSasthamcotta Sree Dharma Sastha Temple
Sasthamkotta · India · temple
A Temple to Lord Ayyappa, worshipped here as Shri Dharma Sastha, standing on the shore of Sasthamkotta Lake, the largest freshwater lake in Kerala, which embraces the sanctuary on three sides.
HinduismShankaracharya Temple
Srinagar · India · temple
The oldest shrine of worship in the Kashmir Valley, an octagonal stone sanctuary to Lord Shiva crowning a hill above Srinagar, its terrace commanding the full sweep of Dal Lake and the city below.
HinduismShore Temple, Mahabalipuram
Mahabalipuram (Chengalpattu district) · India · temple
An early 8th-century Pallava granite Temple on the Bay of Bengal at Mahabalipuram: two shrines of Lord Shiva flanking a reclining Lord Vishnu carved on the bedrock, the last of the mariners' Seven Pagodas, protected within the UNESCO Group of Monuments.
HinduismShree Dwarkadhish Temple (Jagat Mandir)
Dwarka · India · temple
The western seat of the Char Dham, where Lord Krishna Is Worshipped as Dwarkadhish, King Of Dwarka, beneath a 52-yard flag changed five times every day.
HinduismShri Banke Bihari Mandir
Vrindavan · India · temple
The Temple of Shri Banke Bihari, the single dark form in which Shyama and Shyam merged Before Swami Haridas at Nidhivan, where the curtain is drawn and parted every few minutes because tradition holds no one may hold His gaze too long.
HinduismShri Bhimashankar Jyotirlinga
Bhimashankar (Pune district) · India · temple
One of the Twelve Jyotirlingas, hidden in the Sahyadri cloud forest at the source of the Bhima river, where tradition says Lord Shiva Took the Bhima form to destroy the demon Tripurasura.
HinduismShri Govind Dev Ji Temple
Jaipur · India · temple
A Vaishnava shrine within Jaipur's City Palace complex, home to Govind Dev Ji, one of the most revered forms of Lord Krishna in Rajasthan, worshipped through seven aartis a day.
HinduismShri Grishneshwar Jyotirlinga
Verul (Ellora) · India · temple
The twelfth and last of the Twelve Jyotirlingas, at Verul beside the Ellora caves: a red-stone Temple raised again by Maloji Bhosale and the Holkar queens, where devotees touch the Jyotirlinga with bare hands.
HinduismShri Khatu Shyam Ji Temple
Khatu (Sikar district) · India · temple
In Khatu town of Rajasthan's Sikar district, the shish of Barbarika is worshipped as Baba Shyam, whom Sri Krishna blessed to be the Haare ka Sahara, the refuge of the defeated, in Kaliyuga. Lakhs arrive on every Shukla Ekadashi, and the Phalguna Lakkhi Mela brings one of north India's greatest walking pilgrimages to his darbar.