Sacred Places
219 places found
JainismUdayagiri and Khandagiri Caves
· India · temple
A pair of ancient hill caves three kilometres south of Bhubaneswar in Odisha, partly natural and partly carved as residences for Jain monks during the first century BCE.
IslamUmayyad Mosque
· Syria · mosque
The eighth-century Great Mosque of Damascus in Syria, one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world and venerated as the resting place of the head of John the Baptist.
JudaismUnion Libérale Israélite de France
· France · synagogue
The oldest Reform Jewish synagogue in France, founded in 1907 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris and widely known as the rue Copernic synagogue, a flagship of liberal Judaism in the French capital.
HinduismVaidyanath Jyotirlinga
· India · temple
One of the twelve Jyotirlingas, the most sacred abodes of Lord Shiva, with three temples in different states of India claiming to enshrine the same self-manifest linga.
HinduismVaishno Devi Temple
· India · temple
A great Hindu pilgrimage shrine of the Mother goddess on Trikuta mountain in Jammu and Kashmir, drawing millions of devotees each year to the cave sanctuary of Mata Vaishno Devi.
JudaismVercelli Synagogue
· Italy · synagogue
An Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Vercelli, northern Italy, completed in 1878 in the Moorish Revival style by the locally born architect Marco Treves, who also designed the Great Synagogue of Florence.
BuddhismWanbu Huayanjing Pagoda
· People's Republic of China · monastery
The eleventh-century Liao-era White Pagoda of Hohhot in Inner Mongolia, an octagonal seven-storey brick tower built to enshrine ten thousand copies of the Avatamsaka Sutra.
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BuddhismWat Aranyik
· Thailand · monastery
A historic Theravada Buddhist temple in Phitsanulok, northern Thailand, whose name evokes the ancient forest-dwelling tradition of Thai monastic practice.
BuddhismWat Benchamabophit
· Thailand · monastery
A royal Buddhist wat in Bangkok's Dusit District, beloved as the Marble Temple for its gleaming Italian-stone façade and refined late-nineteenth-century craftsmanship.
BuddhismWat Chaiwatthanaram
· Thailand · monastery
A seventeenth-century Khmer-style temple complex on the Chao Phraya River, among the most evocative ruins of the Ayutthaya Historical Park in central Thailand.
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BuddhismWat Chakkrawat
· Thailand · monastery
A historic royal Buddhist monastery in the heart of Bangkok's Chinatown, with origins stretching back to the founding years of the Rattanakosin kingdom.
BuddhismWat Chedi Yot Thong
· Thailand · monastery
A small historic Buddhist temple in Phitsanulok, central Thailand, treasured for its delicate Sukhothai-period lotus-bud chedi — the last of its style remaining in the province.