Sacred Places
584 places found
IslamFatehpuri Masjid
Delhi · India · mosque
A seventeenth-century Sunni mosque at the western end of Chandni Chowk in Old Delhi, built in 1650 by Fatehpuri Begum, a wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, and second in size in the city only to the Jama Masjid.
ChristianityFlorence Cathedral (Santa Maria del Fiore)
Florence · Italy · cathedral
The cathedral of Florence, dedicated to Our Lady as St. Mary of the Flower, crowned by Brunelleschi's dome of 1436, still the largest masonry dome in the world.
ChristianityFreiburg Minster
Freiburg im Breisgau · Germany · church
Freiburg Minster is the Catholic cathedral of the Archdiocese of Freiburg in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, its 116-metre Gothic tower long called one of the most beautiful spires in Christendom. Dedicated to Our Lady, it has stood at the heart of the city's old market square since the thirteenth century.
ChristianityFreising Cathedral
Freising · Germany · church
Freising Cathedral, the Mariendom, is a Romanesque basilica on the Domberg above the old episcopal town of Freising in Bavaria, dedicated to Saint Mary and Saint Corbinian and serving today as co-cathedral of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.
ShintoFujisaki Hachimangū
Kumamoto · Japan · shrine
Fujisaki Hachimangū is a Shinto shrine in the heart of Kumamoto's Chūō ward, enshrining Hachiman as Emperor Ōjin together with Empress Jingū and the Sumiyoshi Sanjin, and revered for over a thousand years as guardian kami of the Higo region.
ChristianityFulda Cathedral
Fulda · Germany · church
Fulda Cathedral, dedicated to Christ the Saviour, is the Baroque cathedral of the Diocese of Fulda in Hesse, Germany, built as the abbey church of Fulda Abbey and the resting place of Saint Boniface, apostle to the Germans.
ShintoFushimi Inari Taisha
Kyoto · Japan · shrine
The head shrine of Japan's roughly 30,000 Inari shrines, where some 10,000 vermilion torii climb sacred Mount Inari and white fox messengers watch every path.
JudaismGalitska Synagogue
Kyiv · Ukraine · synagogue
The Halytska Synagogue, also known as the Galitska Synagogue or Beit Yaakov Shul, is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue on Zhylianska Street in Kyiv, Ukraine, where the congregation prays in the Ashkenazi rite.
HinduismGangaikonda Cholapuram Brihadisvara Temple
Gangaikonda Cholapuram (Ariyalur district) · India · temple
The imperial Temple of Rajendra Chola I, completed in 1035 CE at his new capital and named for his conquest of the Ganga. Its 53 m vimana curves gently where Thanjavur's stands straight, and Lord Shiva as Peruvudaiyar still receives daily worship in a UNESCO Great Living Chola Temple standing alone amid the fields of a vanished city.
HinduismGauri Kund
Gaurikund · India · temple
A Himalayan pilgrimage settlement at 6,502 feet in Uttarakhand's Garhwal hills, Gauri Kund is named for Maa Gauri and serves as the traditional starting point for the trek to Kedarnath Temple, where pilgrims bathe in its natural hot springs before the climb.
JainismGhantai Temple
Khajuraho · India · temple
A ruined Digambara Jain Temple within Khajuraho's Eastern Group, Ghantai Temple was raised around 995 CE for Lord Rishabhanatha, the first Tirthankara, and takes its popular name from the chain-and-bell (ghanti) motif carved into its surviving pillars.
BuddhismGiriyak Stupa
Giriyak · India · stupa
A Gupta-era cylindrical stupa raised around 500 CE on a hilltop above the Panchane River in Bihar's Nalanda district, Giriyak Stupa is known locally as Jarasandha-ka-Baithak, the throne of the epic Magadha king Jarasandha.