Sacred Places
217 places found
HinduismBelur Math
Howrah · India · monastery
Headquarters of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission on the Hooghly, founded by Swami Vivekananda, where the relics of Sri Ramakrishna rest in a great Temple that deliberately joins Temple, mosque and church in one design.
HinduismBhalka Tirtha
Veraval · India · temple
On the bank of the Hiran river at Prabhas Patan near Veraval on Gujarat's Saurashtra coast, Bhalka Tirtha marks the ground where Lord Krishna withdrew from his earthly life after the hunter Jara's arrow found him, an event devotees honour as a sovereign departure rather than a death.
Hinduism
Bharati Matha Temple
Bhubaneswar · India · monastery
In the old quarter of Bhubaneswar, a short walk along the Ratha road from the great Lingaraja Temple, the three-storeyed Bharati Matha has stood since the eleventh century as both a Shaiva monastery and a shrine to Lord Shiva, its grey sandstone walls sheltering a still-living community under a Mahanta.
HinduismBharat Mata Mandir
Varanasi · India · temple
On the Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith campus in Varanasi stands a Temple built to house not an image of a deity but a nation: its sanctum holds a vast relief map of undivided India carved in marble. Inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi in 1936, it honors Bharat Mata, India personified as a national mother, rather than any single tradition's iconography.
HinduismBhojeshwar Temple
Bhojpur · India · temple
An eleventh-century Shaiva sanctuary in Bhojpur village, Raisen district, Madhya Pradesh, left permanently unfinished by the Paramara king Bhoja, its towering sanctum sheltering one of India's largest monolithic Shiva lingams.
HinduismBhoramdeo Temple
Chouragaon · India · temple
An eleventh-century stone Temple to Lord Shiva at Chouragaon in Chhattisgarh's Kabirdham district, set beside a lake at the foot of the Maikal hills and known for the richly carved figural sculpture covering its exterior walls.
HinduismBhutanatha Group of Temples
Badami · India · temple
A cluster of Hindu shrines on the shore of Agastya Tirtha in Badami, Karnataka, raised in two distinct building phases between the early 8th and 12th centuries and dedicated to Lord Shiva in his form as Bhutanatha, lord of spirits and souls.
HinduismBrahma Temple
Khajuraho · India · temple
A small ninth-century shrine within Khajuraho's Eastern Group, raised in granite with a sandstone tower, its sanctum holding a rare four-faced liṅga of Lord Shiva that worshippers mistook for four-headed Brahma, giving the Temple its popular name.
HinduismBrahmeswara Temple
Bhubaneswar · India · temple
A richly carved eleventh-century Shiva Temple in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, raised by the Somavamsi queen mother Kolavati Devi and counted among the finest achievements of mature Kalinga Temple architecture.
HinduismChaturbhuj Temple, Khajuraho
Khajuraho · India · temple
In the village of Jatakari within Khajuraho's Southern Group, the Chaturbhuj Temple holds a commanding four-armed image of Lord Vishnu and stands as the only Temple in the entire Khajuraho complex built without a single erotic sculpture.
HinduismChaturbhuj Temple, Orchha
Orchha · India · temple
Rising 105 metres above the fortress town of Orchha in Madhya Pradesh, the Chaturbhuj Temple was raised by the Bundela kings to enshrine Lord Rama, though its sanctum came instead to hold Radha and Lord Krishna after the queen's own image of Rama refused to leave her palace.
HinduismChausath Yogini Temple, Hirapur
Hirapur · India · temple
A small, roofless circular shrine of sandstone in the village of Hirapur near Bhubaneswar, Odisha, where fifty-six of an original sixty-four dark stone Yogini images still keep their place in wall niches around Maa Kali at the centre, among the oldest surviving Temples of the tantric Yogini cult in India.