Sacred Places
263 places found
HinduismMaa Vajreshwari Temple
Vajreshwari · India · temple
On the volcanic Mandagiri hillock above the river Tansa, Maa Vajreshwari, the Thunderbolt Goddess, gave her own name to the town that shelters her Temple, some 75 km from Mumbai in Maharashtra's Thane district.
HinduismMaa Vimala Temple
· India · temple
The Vimala Temple, Mãā Bimåḷā Deuḷå in Odia, honors Goddess Vimala, or Bimala, within the Jagannath Temple complex at Puri in Odisha, India. Widely regarded as a Shakta pitha, it stands among the holiest of shrines devoted to the Hindu Goddess.
HinduismMaa Vishalakshi Temple
· India · temple
A sacred Śākta shrine on the banks of the Gaṅgā in Vārāṇasī, the Viśālākṣī Devī Temple honours the Goddess Pārvatī in her wide-eyed form and stands among the most venerated of the 51 Śakti Pīṭhas.
HinduismMadhyamaheshwar
Gaundar · India · temple
Reached only after a trek of sixteen to eighteen kilometres into the Garhwal Himalayas, Madhyamaheshwar enshrines the nabhi, the navel, of Lord Shiva, third of the five sacred stations of the Panch Kedar pilgrimage, standing at 3,497 metres beneath the snow walls of Chaukhamba.
HinduismMahabaleshwar Temple
Gokarna · India · temple
An ancient Shaiva Temple on Gokarna's Arabian Sea shore in Karnataka, enshrining the Atmalinga of Lord Shiva within a granite sanctum of classical Dravidian design.
HinduismMahabhairav Temple
Tezpur · India · temple
A hilltop Shaiva sanctuary in northern Tezpur, Assam, enshrining Lord Mahabhairav, a fierce form of Lord Shiva, upon a lingam that devotees hold to be a living stone.
HinduismMahadeva Temple, Itagi
Itagi · India · temple
A twelfth-century Lord Shiva Temple in the village of Itagi in Karnataka's Koppal district, raised by a Western Chalukya military commander and honoured in its own foundation inscription as the Emperor among Temples.
HinduismMahadev Temple, Tambdi Surla
Tambdi Surla · India · temple
A living thirteenth-century Shaiva sanctuary in a forest clearing at the foot of the Western Ghats, the sole surviving example of Kadamba-era basalt Temple architecture in Goa.
HinduismMahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga
· India · temple
Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga, set beside the sacred Śiprā river in ancient Ujjain, enshrines Lord Śiva as Mahākāla, sovereign of time, and is counted among the twelve holiest Jyotirliṅga pilgrimage sites across India.
HinduismMahalakshmi Temple, Mumbai
Mumbai · India · temple
A cherished seaside shrine to Maa Mahalakshmi on Mumbai's Breach Candy shoreline, raised in 1831 by the merchant Dhakji Dadaji and now one of the city's most visited Temples.
HinduismMahishasuramardini Mandapa
Mahabalipuram · India · temple
A late seventh-century Pallava rock-cut cave shrine on the hill above Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, carved with three of the era's most celebrated reliefs: Maa Durga triumphant over the buffalo demon, Lord Vishnu reclining on the cosmic serpent, and Lord Shiva enthroned with Maa Parvati and their son.
HinduismMalinithan
Likabali · India · temple
A ruined early-medieval Temple crowning a twenty-one-metre hillock above the Brahmaputra plains near Likabali in Arunachal Pradesh, its carved stone plinth and granite sculpture among the richest archaeological finds in the state.