Sacred Places
584 places found
JainismChitharal Jain Monuments
Chitharal · India · temple
A 9th-century rock-cut Jain sanctuary on a granite hill above Chitharal village in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, its three sanctums holding Lord Mahavira, Lord Parshvanatha, and the yakshini Padmavati Devi beside a Hindu shrine to the goddess Bhagavati built into the same hillside.
HinduismChitragupta Temple
Khajuraho · India · temple
Rising in Khajuraho's Western Group of Temples in Madhya Pradesh, the eleventh-century Chitragupta Temple is the only shrine in the town consecrated to Lord Surya, its sanctum sheltering a rare image of the sun god standing in his chariot of seven horses.
ChristianityChurch of the Holy Sepulchre
Jerusalem · Israel · church
The church of the Old City of Jerusalem that holds both Golgotha and the tomb of Christ under one roof, shared by six Christian communities under the Status Quo, its doors opened each dawn by Muslim custodian families.
HinduismDaksharamam
· India · temple
Draksharamam, also written Daksharamam, is one of the five Pancharama Kshetras sacred to Lord Shiva, revered too as a Trilinga Kshetra and as the twelfth of the Ashtadasha Shakti Peethams. The Temple stands in Draksharamam town in the Konaseema district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
HinduismDaksheswara Mahadev Temple
Kankhal · India · temple
A Shaiva pilgrimage Temple in Kankhal, four kilometres from Haridwar, where tradition holds that King Daksha's great yajna once stood and where Maa Sati gave her life rather than see Lord Shiva dishonoured.
HinduismDevasathan
Bangkok · Thailand · temple
Devasathan is the royal Brahmin Temple of the Thai Court in Bangkok, founded in 1784 by King Rama I to house the priestly lineage that still performs the kingdom's most sacred state ceremonies. Within its white walled precinct, Lord Shiva, Lord Ganesha, and Lord Vishnu each keep a shrine of their own, with Lord Brahma honoured at a smaller shrine just inside the gate.
HinduismDevi Jagadambi Temple
Khajuraho · India · temple
A richly carved eleventh-century shrine in Khajuraho's Western Group, sharing the Chandela dynasty's grandest platform with the Kandariya Mahadeva Temple, its sanctum holding an imposing image of Maa Jagadamba, the Universal Mother, worshipped here as Maa Parvati.
BuddhismDhamek Stupa
Sarnath · India · stupa
The largest surviving monument at Sarnath's Deer Park, traditionally venerated as the ground of the Buddha's first sermon, and one of Buddhism's four principal pilgrimage sites.
HinduismDhamrai Jagannath Roth
Dhamrai · India · temple
A three-tiered wooden temple-chariot kept at Dhamrai in Dhaka District, Bangladesh, at the heart of one of South Asia's oldest Rath Yatra traditions outside Odisha, carrying Lord Jagannath through the town's streets each year with Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra.
JainismDilwara Temple
Mount Abu · India · temple
Five white-marble Śvētāmbara Jain Temples built between 1031 and 1582 CE on a forested rise above Mount Abu, celebrated across the Jain world for carving of extraordinary fineness.
HinduismDodda Ganeshana Gudi
Bengaluru · India · temple
A Ganesha shrine on Bull Temple Road in Bengaluru's Basavanagudi neighbourhood, its sanctum holding one of South India's largest monolithic images of Lord Ganesha, a single block of granite standing eighteen feet tall and sixteen feet wide.
IslamDome of the Rock (Qubbat al-Sakhra)
Jerusalem · Israel · shrine
The golden-domed shrine at the centre of the Al-Aqsa compound, raised over the Foundation Stone in 691 to 692 CE. It is the world's oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture, sacred in Islam as the place of the Prophet's Mi'raj ascent, and standing upon ground Jewish tradition holds as the site of the Holy of Holies.