Sacred Places
26 places found
HinduismAmarnath Temple
· India · temple
A high Himalayan cave shrine in Jammu and Kashmir where a naturally forming ice lingam is venerated as Lord Śiva, drawing one of India's great seasonal pilgrimages.
HinduismBadami cave temples
· India · temple
A celebrated complex of sixth- to eighth-century Hindu, Jain, and (likely) Buddhist cave temples carved into the red sandstone cliffs of Badami in northern Karnataka, India.
HinduismBadrinath Temple
· India · temple
A major Himalayan Vaiṣṇava pilgrimage temple in Uttarakhand, India — one of the four Char Dham and one of the 108 Divya Desams sacred to the worship of Lord Vishnu.
HinduismBhimashankar Temple
· India · temple
A revered Śiva temple in the forested Sahyadri hills of Maharashtra, India, enshrining one of the twelve Jyotirliṅgas and standing close to the source of the Bhīmā River.
HinduismDhamrai Jagannath Roth
· India · temple
A historic wooden chariot (rath) of Lord Jagannātha kept at Dhamrai in Bangladesh, central to one of the most significant Hindu Rath Yātrā festivals in the country.
HinduismDodda Ganeshana Gudi
· India · temple
A historic Hindu temple in the Basavanagudi neighbourhood of south Bengaluru, India, dedicated to Lord Gaṇeśa and known to devotees for its great monolithic mūrti of the deva.
HinduismGrishneshwar temple
· India · temple
Grishneshwar Jyotirlinga in Verul village of Maharashtra is one of the twelve jyotirlinga shrines of Shiva, the self-manifest abodes of light considered among the most sacred temples in Shaiva tradition.
HinduismJagannath Temple
· India · temple
The Jagannath Temple at Puri on the coast of Odisha is one of the holiest Vaishnava shrines of India, honouring Jagannath, the Lord of the Universe, a form of Vishnu worshipped alongside his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra.
HinduismKailasa Temple, Ellora
· India · temple
The Kailasa Temple at Ellora is the largest rock-cut Hindu temple in the world, carved from a single basalt cliff in the eighth century as an earthly form of Mount Kailasa, the abode of Shiva.
HinduismKalighat Kali Temple
· India · temple
Kalighat Kali Mandir in Kolkata is among the holiest Shakta shrines in India, dedicated to Maa Kali and counted as one of the fifty-one Shakti Pithas, where the body of Sati is said to have fallen to earth.
HinduismKandariya Mahadeva Temple
· India · temple
The Kandariya Mahadeva Mandir at Khajuraho is the largest and most richly ornamented temple of the western group, a Chandela-era sanctuary of the eleventh century dedicated to Shiva as the Great God of the Cave.
HinduismKapaleeshwarar Temple
· India · temple
Kapaleeshwarar Kovil in Mylapore, Chennai, is a Tamil Shaiva temple dedicated to Shiva as Kapaleeshwarar and to his consort as Karpagambal, the Goddess of the Wish-Yielding Tree, revered in the seventh-century hymns of the Nayanar saints.