Sacred Places
217 places found
HinduismGangaikonda Cholapuram Brihadisvara Temple
Gangaikonda Cholapuram (Ariyalur district) · India · temple
The imperial Temple of Rajendra Chola I, completed in 1035 CE at his new capital and named for his conquest of the Ganga. Its 53 m vimana curves gently where Thanjavur's stands straight, and Lord Shiva as Peruvudaiyar still receives daily worship in a UNESCO Great Living Chola Temple standing alone amid the fields of a vanished city.
HinduismGauri Kund
Gaurikund · India · temple
A Himalayan pilgrimage settlement at 6,502 feet in Uttarakhand's Garhwal hills, Gauri Kund is named for Maa Gauri and serves as the traditional starting point for the trek to Kedarnath Temple, where pilgrims bathe in its natural hot springs before the climb.
HinduismGop Temple
Zinavari · India · temple
One of the oldest surviving stone Temples in Gujarat, Gop Temple rises on a hilltop above the Vartu river near Zinavari village, its partial pyramidal shikhara dated to the close of the sixth century.
HinduismGuruvayur Temple
· India · temple
Known to generations of devotees as Bhuloka Vaikunta, Vishnu's abode brought to earth, this ancient Kerala shrine consecrated to Lord Guruvayurappan stands among the holiest and most frequented Vaishnava pilgrimage places in the world.
HinduismHalasuru Someshwara Temple
Bengaluru · India · temple
One of Bengaluru's oldest surviving shrines, this Chola-era sanctuary in the Halasuru quarter honours Lord Shiva as Someshwara, sovereign of the moon, beneath a soaring painted gopura enlarged by the Vijayanagara-era rulers of the city.
HinduismHanuman Garhi, Ayodhya
Ayodhya · India · temple
The fortress shrine of Lord Hanuman, kotwal of Ayodhya, where pilgrims climb 76 steps to take Bajrangbali's darshan before approaching Ram Janmabhoomi.
HinduismHarshnath Temple
Sikar · India · temple
Crowning a hilltop above the plains of Sikar district, this tenth-century ruin honours Lord Shiva as Harsha, the joyful deity who tradition holds dwells on the mountain as its own tutelary guardian, roughly fourteen kilometres from Sikar town.
HinduismHidimba Devi Temple, Dhungri Manali
Manali · India · temple
A sixteenth-century wooden cave shrine in the cedar forest of Dhungri above Manali, raised over the rock where Maa Hidimba Devi is said to have performed tapasya, and worshipped by the Kullu valley as its presiding goddess.
HinduismHoysaleswara Temple, Halebidu
Halebidu (Hassan district) · India · temple
The largest Temple the Hoysalas raised to Lord Shiva: twin sanctums for king and queen, ringed by soapstone friezes of elephants, lions and the epics, at the heart of the ruined capital Dorasamudra and inscribed by UNESCO in 2023.
HinduismISKCON Temple, Vrindavan
Vrindavan · India · temple
The Sri Krishna Balaram Mandir, known widely as ISKCON Vrindavan, is a Gaudiya Vaishnava Temple in the sacred town of Vrindavan, consecrated in 1975 to Lord Krishna and His elder brother Lord Balarama. Its white marble sanctum, carved in Rajasthani style, stands among the most visited centres of Krishna devotion anywhere in the world.
HinduismJagannath Temple
· India · temple
The Jagannath Temple at Puri on the coast of Odisha is one of the holiest Vaishnava shrines of India, honouring Jagannath, the Lord of the Universe, a form of Vishnu worshipped alongside his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra.
HinduismJagdish Temple, Udaipur
Udaipur · India · temple
Raised on a high marble terrace at the heart of Udaipur, the Jagdish Temple has welcomed worshippers in unbroken succession since 1651, its carved stone spire rising nearly seventy-nine feet above the city's old royal quarter. Its sanctum holds a four-armed image of Lord Jagannath, worshipped here as a form of Lord Vishnu and Lord Krishna, cut from a single block of black stone.