Sacred Places
29 places found
JainismJain Temple, Kidanganad
· India · temple
A medieval Jain sanctuary in Kerala's Wayanad district, this 13th–14th-century stone structure stands as a testament to the Jain communities who once flourished in the forested highlands of south India.
JainismKulpakji
Kolanupaka · India · temple
Kulpakji, also called the Kolanupaka Temple, is a Śvetāmbara Jain sanctuary in Kolanupaka village, Telangana, honoured for roughly two thousand years and famed for its Manikyasvami image of Lord Mahavira, carved, tradition holds, from a single piece of jade.
JainismMangi-Tungi
Satana · India · temple
A twin-pinnacled Digambara Jain Siddha Kshetra in the Sahyadri hills of Nashik district, Mangi-Tungi rises above the Maharashtra plains as a place tradition holds countless souls crossed into final liberation, and where a 108-foot Lord Rishabhanatha now stands carved from the living rock.
JainismNakoda Parshwanath Jain Temple
Nakoda · India · temple
In the Thar desert country of Barmer district, Nakodaji is one of western India's most beloved Shvetambara Jain pilgrimage Temples, its sanctum holding a dark stone image of Lord Parshvanatha watched over by Lord Nakoda Bhairav, the tirtha's guardian protector.
JainismNehanurpatti
· India · temple
Neganur Patti is a small Tamil Nadu village near Gingee sheltering the Adukkankal hillock, an ancient Jain site bearing cave beds used by wandering monks, fourth-century Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions, and prehistoric lime rock paintings dating to around 1000 BCE.
JainismPanchakuta Basadi, Kambadahalli
Kambadahalli · India · temple
A cluster of five interconnected Jain shrines in the village of Kambadahalli in Karnataka, raised under the Western Ganga dynasty and counted among the finest surviving examples of Dravidian Temple architecture in the Jain tradition.
JainismParshvanatha Temple
Khajuraho · India · temple
The largest of Khajuraho's Jain Temples, raised in the tenth century for a Hindu patron and consecrated to Lord Parshvanatha in 1860, its sandstone walls carrying both Jain and Vaishnavaite sculpture side by side.
JainismRishabhdeo
Rishabhdeo (Dhulev) · India · temple
Rishabhdeo, also called Dhulev, is a Jain pilgrimage town in Udaipur district honouring Lord Rishabhanatha, the first tirthankara, whose black stone image draws Digambara and Svetambara pilgrims alike, along with Bhil and Hindu devotees who know him as Kalaji. Fifty-two carved spires rise over the Temple in a symbolic echo of Nandishwar Dweep.
JainismSaavira Kambada Basadi
Moodabidri · India · temple
A Digambara Jain basadi in Moodabidri, Karnataka, its forest of one thousand individually carved granite pillars framing the sanctum of Lord Chandraprabha, eighth tirthankara, beneath a fifteenth-century manastambha rising fifty feet before the entrance.
JainismShankheshwar Parshvanath Jain Temple
Shankheshwar · India · temple
A foremost Svetambara Jain tirth in Shankheshwar, Patan district, Gujarat, dedicated to Bhagwan Parshvanath, the twenty-third Tirthankara, held second only to Shatrunjaya in importance to Svetambara pilgrims.
JainismShantinatha Basadi, Jinanathapura
Jinanathapura · India · temple
A Hoysala-era Digambara Jain basadi consecrated to Lord Shantinatha, the sixteenth Tirthankara, standing in the small Temple village of Jinanathapura near Shravanabelagola in Karnataka's Hassan district. Its outer walls carry a sculptural richness rare among Jain shrines of its age, closer in spirit to the Hindu Temples the same Hoysala court also built.
JainismShatrunjaya Hill Temples, Palitana
Palitana · India · temple
A mountaintop city of some 863 marble Jain Temples above Palitana, the holiest tirth of the Shvetambara tradition, climbed by 3,750 steps and left empty every night for the Tirthankaras.