Sacred Places
217 places found
HinduismMaruthamalai Marudhachalamurthy Temple
Coimbatore · India · temple
On a granite hill of the Western Ghats above Coimbatore, the Marudhamalai Murugan Temple honours Lord Murugan as Marudhachalapathi, and is counted among the Aaru Padai Veedu, the six sacred abodes where he revealed himself in Tamil tradition.
HinduismMasroor Temples
Masrur · India · temple
Carved directly from a single hill in the Kangra valley, the Masroor Temples rise like a mountain range in miniature before the snow line of the Dhauladhar, their sanctum holding a four-faced form of Lord Shiva at the heart of an unfinished eighth-century vision.
HinduismMeenakshi Temple
· India · temple
A historic Shaiva-Shakta Temple on the southern bank of the Vaigai river in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, honouring Maa Meenakshi as a form of Maa Parvati alongside her consort Sundareswarar.
HinduismMukteshvara Temple
Bhubaneswar · India · temple
A tenth century jewel of Kalinga Temple architecture in Bhubaneswar, the Mukteshvara Temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva as Mukteshvara, Lord of Liberation, and is celebrated above all for the ornately carved freestanding archway, the torana, that greets pilgrims at its gate.
HinduismNageshvara Jyotirlinga
· India · temple
A Hindu shrine at Dwarka on the coast of Gujarat in western India, dedicated to Shiva and counted among the twelve Jyotirlinga sites named in the Shiva Purana.
HinduismNageshvara Temple, Begur
Bengaluru · India · temple
In the town of Begur on Bengaluru's southern edge, the Nageshvara Temple is a Western Ganga dynasty shrine to Lord Shiva whose ninth-century stones carry the earliest inscription naming the city that grew up around it.
HinduismNavlakha Temple, Ghumli
Ghumli · India · temple
A twelfth-century Sun Temple standing in ruin at Ghumli on Gujarat's Saurashtra peninsula, raised in the Maru-Gurjara style by the Jethwa dynasty and counted among the oldest Surya shrines in the state.
HinduismNegheriting Shiva Doul
Dergaon · India · temple
A Panchayatana Shiva Temple crowning a hillock at Dergaon in Assam's Golaghat district, rebuilt in brick by the Ahom crown in 1765 and still a living centre of worship today.
HinduismNellaiappar Temple
Tirunelveli · India · temple
A great Saiva sanctuary on the Thamirabarani's northern bank in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, where Lord Shiva is enshrined as Nellaiappar beside Maa Parvati as Kanthimathi Ambal, its two giant stone pillars famed for ringing forty-eight distinct musical notes.
HinduismNew Vishwanath Temple
Varanasi · India · temple
A soaring white marble Shiva sanctuary rising within the Banaras Hindu University campus in Varanasi, built by the Birla family and known to generations of students simply as VT.
HinduismNidhivan
Vrindavan · India · sacred natural site
A walled grove of ancient, paired Tulsi trees in Vrindavan believed by devotees to be the nightly stage of Lord Krishna and Radha Rani's rasa lila, sealed to all visitors after dusk.
HinduismOm Banna
Chotila · India · shrine
A roadside folk shrine on the Pali-Jodhpur highway in Rajasthan, venerating the young Rajput Om Singh Rathore and the Royal Enfield motorcycle he was riding when he died in 1988.