Sacred Places
217 places found
HinduismChausath Yogini Temple, Khajuraho
Khajuraho · India · temple
The oldest surviving structure at Khajuraho, this hypaethral shrine of rough granite dates to the late ninth century and once held sixty-four cells sacred to the Yoginis, with a larger sanctum at its centre believed to have honoured Maa Durga.
HinduismChausath Yogini Temple, Mitaoli
Mitaoli · India · temple
Crowning a lone hill above the Chambal plains in Mitaoli, Morena district, this eleventh-century circular Temple was built for the sixty-four Yoginis and stands today as one of India's best-preserved Yogini shrines, its drum-shaped outer wall long said to have inspired the design of India's Parliament building.
HinduismChennakesava Temple, Belur
Belur · India · temple
A Hoysala-era Temple at Belur in Karnataka, consecrated to Lord Vishnu as Chennakeshava and raised in 1117 CE, its dark soapstone walls carved with a density of sculpture recognised since 2023 as part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
HinduismChitragupta Temple
Khajuraho · India · temple
Rising in Khajuraho's Western Group of Temples in Madhya Pradesh, the eleventh-century Chitragupta Temple is the only shrine in the town consecrated to Lord Surya, its sanctum sheltering a rare image of the sun god standing in his chariot of seven horses.
HinduismDaksharamam
· India · temple
Draksharamam, also written Daksharamam, is one of the five Pancharama Kshetras sacred to Lord Shiva, revered too as a Trilinga Kshetra and as the twelfth of the Ashtadasha Shakti Peethams. The Temple stands in Draksharamam town in the Konaseema district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
HinduismDaksheswara Mahadev Temple
Kankhal · India · temple
A Shaiva pilgrimage Temple in Kankhal, four kilometres from Haridwar, where tradition holds that King Daksha's great yajna once stood and where Maa Sati gave her life rather than see Lord Shiva dishonoured.
HinduismDevi Jagadambi Temple
Khajuraho · India · temple
A richly carved eleventh-century shrine in Khajuraho's Western Group, sharing the Chandela dynasty's grandest platform with the Kandariya Mahadeva Temple, its sanctum holding an imposing image of Maa Jagadamba, the Universal Mother, worshipped here as Maa Parvati.
HinduismDodda Ganeshana Gudi
Bengaluru · India · temple
A Ganesha shrine on Bull Temple Road in Bengaluru's Basavanagudi neighbourhood, its sanctum holding one of South India's largest monolithic images of Lord Ganesha, a single block of granite standing eighteen feet tall and sixteen feet wide.
HinduismDuladeo Temple
Khajuraho · India · temple
The youngest of Khajuraho's Chandela-era Temples, Duladeo stands in the Southern Group beside the Khodar river, its sanctum holding a linga of Lord Shiva ringed by nine hundred and ninety-nine smaller lingas carved into its own surface.
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HinduismDurga Mandir, Varanasi
Varanasi · India · temple
A red-washed shrine to Maa Durga beside the sacred Durga Kund in Varanasi, raised in the eighteenth century by Rani Bhabani of Natore; devotees hold that Her central image is svayambhu, self-manifested rather than carved by human hand.
HinduismDurgiana Temple
Amritsar · India · temple
Rising from its own sacred lake in Amritsar, Durgiana Mandir is home to Maa Durga, with Maa Lakshmi and Lord Vishnu also enshrined within, its gilded dome and silver doors built in 1921 to echo the neighbouring Golden Temple in devotional homage rather than imitation.
HinduismDwarakadhish Temple
· India · temple
Revered as the Jagat Mandir, this five-storied Vaishnava shrine in Dwarka, Gujarat enshrines Lord Krishna under his title Dwarkadhish, 'Lord of Dvārakā', and stands as one of the four sacred destinations of the Char Dham pilgrimage.