Sacred Places
217 places found
HinduismJakhu Temple
Shimla · India · temple
Jakhu Temple crowns Shimla's highest peak at 2,455 metres, an ancient hill-shrine to Lord Hanuman watched over today by a saffron-orange murti 108 feet tall and by the Temple's resident troop of rhesus macaques.
HinduismJavari Temple, Khajuraho
Khajuraho · India · temple
A slender eleventh century shrine to Lord Vishnu in Khajuraho's quieter Eastern Group, its soaring curvilinear tower and serpent headed Makara Torana entrance arch counted among the most finely proportioned in the whole Chandela Temple city.
HinduismKailasanathar Temple, Kanchipuram
Kanchipuram · India · temple
Rising in the western quarter of Kanchipuram, the Kailasanathar Temple is among the oldest surviving stone Temples in South India, raised for Lord Shiva by the Pallava dynasty around 700 CE. Its sandstone tower and sculpted courtyard shrines mark the moment Dravidian Temple building first stood free of rock and timber.
HinduismKailasa Temple, Ellora
Ellora (Verul) · India · temple
The world's largest monolithic rock-cut Temple, carved top-down from a single basalt cliff in the 8th century as Mount Kailash, the abode of Lord Shiva, brought to earth at Ellora.
HinduismKal Bhairav Temple, Ujjain
Ujjain · India · temple
On the bank of the Kshipra river in Ujjain, the Kal Bhairav Temple honours Lord Shiva in his fierce form as Kal Bhairav, guardian deity of one of Hinduism's seven sacred cities. Liquor offered in a silver saucer before the stone image is said to vanish without a trace, a rite that has drawn devotees for generations.
HinduismKalkaji Mandir
New Delhi · India · temple
In the Kalkaji quarter of South Delhi, opposite Nehru Place, the Kalkaji Mandir enshrines Maa Kali in a form devotees hold to be self manifested, present in the sanctum since before living memory. The surrounding neighbourhood itself takes its name from the Temple.
HinduismKalpeshwar
Urgam · India · temple
Kalpeshwar is a small Himalayan stone shrine to Lord Shiva set into a cave passage in the Urgam valley of Uttarakhand, revered as the fifth and only year-round Panch Kedar Temple.
HinduismKandariya Mahadeva Temple
Khajuraho (Chhatarpur district) · India · temple
The largest and tallest of the Khajuraho Temples, a Chandela sanctuary of about 1030 CE where Lord Shiva dwells as a marble linga in the cave-like sanctum of a 31 metre mountain of carved sandstone.
HinduismKashi Vishwanath Temple
· India · temple
A revered Hindu shrine on Vishwanath Gali in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, honouring Shiva as one of the twelve Jyotirlingas of the Shaiva tradition.
HinduismKedarnath Temple
· India · temple
A high-Himalayan Shiva shrine on the Garhwal range above the Mandakini river in Uttarakhand, India, counted among the twelve Jyotirlingas and the four Chota Char Dham sites.
HinduismKonark Sun Temple
Konark (Puri district) · India · temple
The thirteenth-century chariot of Lord Surya on the Odisha coast: twenty-four carved stone wheels drawn by seven horses, raised by King Narasimhadeva I around 1250 CE and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984.
HinduismKopeshwar Temple
Khidrapur · India · temple
A twelfth-century Temple on the Krishna river at Khidrapur in Maharashtra, raised by the Shilahara dynasty and dedicated to Lord Shiva as Kopeshwar, the Wrathful One, paired uniquely in the same sanctum with Lord Vishnu.