Sacred Places
217 places found
HinduismSri Kalahasteeswara Swamy Temple, Srikalahasti
Srikalahasti (Tirupati district) · India · temple
The Vayu sthalam of the Pancha Bhoota Sthalams, where Lord Shiva Is Worshipped as air itself: a white swayambhu lingam no hand may touch, a sanctum lamp that flickers without wind, and India's best-known seat of the Rahu-Ketu Sarpa Dosha Nivarana puja, on the Swarnamukhi river near Tirupati.
HinduismSri Ranganathaswamy Temple, Srirangam
Srirangam, Tiruchirappalli · India · temple
The largest functioning Hindu Temple complex in the world: 156 acres of concentric walled enclosures on an island in the Kaveri, where Lord Ranganatha reclines facing south, first among the 108 Divya Desams.
HinduismSuka Temple
· India · temple
Suka Temple stands quiet and unworshipped in Bhubaneswar's Old Town, Odisha, its carved walls once dedicated to Lord Śiva and adorned with the eight dikpalas alongside their female counterparts in the upper wall niches.
HinduismSun Temple, Modhera
Modhera · India · temple
A Hindu Temple at Modhera in Gujarat consecrated to Lord Surya, the sun god, raised after 1026 CE under Bhima I of the Chaulukya dynasty and ranked among the finest surviving expressions of solar worship in Indian Temple architecture.
HinduismSwaminarayan Akshardham (Gandhinagar)
Gandhinagar · India · temple
A 23-acre spiritual and cultural complex in Gujarat's capital, Swaminarayan Akshardham rises in pink Rajasthan sandstone at the heart of Gandhinagar, raised without a single piece of steel or iron in tribute to Bhagwan Swaminarayan.
HinduismTeli ka Temple
Gwalior · India · temple
Rising some twenty-four metres above the ramparts of Gwalior Fort on the highest ground within the old citadel, the Teli ka Temple is crowned by a barrel-vaulted roof unlike any other Temple tower of its age in North India. Within its rectangular sanctum, unusual for a shrine of this era, a Shiva linga stands watch, though the Temple's carvings and inscriptions once also honoured Lord Vishnu and Maa Durga.
HinduismThanumalayan Temple
· India · temple
A revered Hindu shrine at Suchindram in the Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu, India, where Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma are honoured together in a single linga.
HinduismThillai Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram
Chidambaram · India · temple
The home of the Ananda Tandava, where Lord Shiva Is Worshipped as Nataraja in the gold-roofed Chit Sabha and as the formless space of the Chidambara Rahasyam, one of the five Pancha Bhoota Sthalams.
HinduismThousand Pillar Temple
Hanamkonda · India · temple
At the foot of Hanamkonda hill in Telangana, the Thousand Pillar Temple gathers Lord Shiva, Lord Vishnu, and Surya Deva under one roof as the Trikutalayam, its star-shaped walls and forest of carved pillars ranked among the finest surviving works of Kakatiya craftsmanship. A monolithic dolerite Nandi still keeps watch before the shrine, polished to a shine that belies the hardness of the stone.
HinduismTiger Cave
Saluvankuppam · India · shrine
On the shore hamlet of Saluvankuppam north of Mahabalipuram, Tiger Cave is a single boulder carved by Pallava sculptors into a ring of roaring yali and tiger heads around a small shrine chamber, its sanctum built for a goddess whose image no longer survives. Palmyra palms and the sound of the Bay of Bengal surround a monument unlike any other rock-cut shrine on the Coromandel Coast.
HinduismTirumala Venkateswara Temple
· India · temple
Perched amid the sacred Tirumala hills of Andhra Pradesh, this great Vaishnava shrine is consecrated to Lord Venkateswara, a form of Vishnu, and draws millions of devotees who regard it as a divine refuge for the present age.
HinduismTrisrota Shakti Peeth (Maa Bhramari Devi Temple)
Bodaganj · Bangladesh · temple
A modest riverside shrine to Maa Bhramari on the Teesta's bank near Bodaganj in Jalpaiguri district, revered in Bengali Shakta tradition as one of the fifty-one Shakti Peethas where a part of the Goddess fell to earth.