Sacred Places
263 places found
HinduismMaa Hinglaj Temple
· Pakistan · temple
Nestled within a mountain cavern on the Makran coast of Balochistan, Hinglaj Mata is among the most revered Śākta pīthas in the Hindu world, a living sanctuary of Devī on the banks of the Hingol River, and the site of Pakistan's largest Hindu pilgrimage.
HinduismMaa Jayanti Temple
· India · temple
A sacred Shakta pitha nestled in the West Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya, revered by Shakta devotees as the permanent dwelling place of Goddess Durga and drawing great crowds of pilgrims each year for Durga Puja.
HinduismMaa Jeshoreshwari Kali Temple
· Bangladesh · temple
A venerable Śākta shrine in Ishwaripur, Bangladesh, revered as one of the 51 Śakti Pīṭhas, the sacred seat marking where Satī's palms and soles are said to have alighted upon the earth.
HinduismMaa Jnanakshi Rajarajeshwari Temple
· India · temple
A Hindu Temple in Rajarajeshwari Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, raised in 1978 and consecrated to the goddess Rajarajeshwari, a form of Tripura Sundari revered here as one of the sacred ear sites among India's Shaktipeethas.
HinduismMaa Jogadya Temple
· India · temple
Kshirgram, a village in Purba Bardhaman district of West Bengal, is honored as a satipith, one of the 51 Shakti pithas, where the goddess is venerated as Yogadya alongside a revered Shiva shrine.
HinduismMaa Jwalamukhi Temple
· India · temple
A Temple town in the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, India, home to the Jwalamukhi Temple: a shrine built around a naturally burning flame that rises from a fissure in the rock and is counted among the Shakta pithas.
HinduismMaa Kali Temple, Kalighat
· 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 Maa Sati is said to have fallen to earth.
HinduismMaa Kamakhya Temple
· India · temple
Enthroned on the forested Nilachal hills above Guwahati, the Kamakhya Temple is one of Śāktism's holiest seats, a pre-eminent centre of Tantric devotion where Goddess Kamakhya has drawn pilgrims, practitioners, and kings for well over a millennium.
HinduismMaa Kamakshi Temple
· India · temple
Enshrined in the ancient city of Kanchipuram near Chennai, the Kamakshi Amman Temple, also called Kamakoti Nayaki Kovil, venerates Goddess Kamakshi, revered as the supreme expression of Ādi Parāśakti in the Śākta tradition.
HinduismMaa Kanya Kumari Temple
Kanyakumari · India · temple
At the southern tip of Tamil Nadu, Devi Kanya Kumari is honoured as an adolescent form of the great Goddess, seen by different Hindu communities as Pārvatī or Lakṣmī and worshipped by Śāktas as an incarnation of Bhadrakālī.
HinduismMaa Karni Mata Temple
Deshnoke (Bikaner district) · India · temple
The great madh of Maa Karni, the Charan mystic Revered as Maa Hinglaj and Maa Durga Come again, where some 20,000 kabas, held to be Her own kin between births, live within a Temple of white marble and solid silver doors.
Hinduism
Maa Katyayani Peeth, Vrindavan
Vrindavan · India · temple
One of the Fifty-One Shakti Peethas: here, tradition holds, Ringlets of the Hair Of Maa Sati Fell in Braj, by the banks of the Yamuna. At Radha Bagh in Vrindavan Maa Is Worshipped as Maa Uma, as Maa Katyayani, with Shiva honored as Bhutesh, in a Temple raised in 1923 by Swami Keshavananda of the Kriya Yoga line of Lahiri Mahasaya.