Sacred Places
584 places found
SikhismGurdwara Sri Hemkund Sahib
Chamoli district · India · gurdwara
The highest gurdwara in the world, a five sided sanctuary at 4,632 metres beside a glacial lake ringed by seven peaks, where the Bachittar Natak says Guru Gobind Singh Ji performed tapasya in his previous life. Reached only by a 19 km Himalayan trek, open late May to early October.
SikhismGurdwara Sri Tarn Taran Sahib
Tarn Taran · India · gurdwara
Founded by Guru Arjan Dev Ji, the fifth Guru, in 1590, Gurdwara Sri Tarn Taran Sahib holds the largest sarovar of any gurdwara, and draws pilgrims each Masya, the moonless night, in a devotion that repeats every month rather than once a year.
SikhismGur Sikh Temple
Abbotsford · Canada · gurdwara
The Gur Sikh Temple in Abbotsford, British Columbia, opened in 1911, is the oldest surviving gurdwara in North America and the only one outside India and Pakistan designated a National Historic Site. Its ground floor now holds the Sikh Heritage Museum, while its upper prayer hall remains an active place of worship before the Guru Granth Sahib Ji.
SikhismGurudwara Bangla Sahib
New Delhi · India · gurdwara
Delhi's largest gurdwara, raised over the well where the child eighth Guru, Guru Har Krishan Sahib Ji, gave water to the city's smallpox-stricken in 1664 and then gave his own life in that same service.
Sikhism
Gurudwara Buddha Johad
Dabla · India · gurdwara
A Sikh gurdwara standing in what was once open jungle near Dabla village in Rajasthan's Sri Ganganagar district, raised to honour the courage of Bhai Sukha Singh and Bhai Mehtab Singh, who avenged the desecration of Harmandir Sahib in 1740.
SikhismGuru ka Tal
Agra · India · gurdwara
Gurdwara Dukh Nivaran Sahib, Guru ka Tal rises beside a seventeenth-century Mughal rainwater tank near Sikandra on the outskirts of Agra, its white domes standing over ground the Sikh sangat holds sacred to the memory of Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji, the ninth Guru.
SikhismGuru Nanak Jhira Sahib
Bidar · India · gurdwara
Guru Nanak Jhira Sahib rises in a valley ringed by laterite hills in Bidar, Karnataka, around a spring that Sikh tradition holds Guru Nanak Dev Ji himself brought forth from the rock, and which has flowed without pause for more than five centuries.
SikhismGuru Ram Rai Darbar Sahib
Dehradun · India · gurdwara
Guru Ram Rai Darbar Sahib stands in the heart of Dehradun as a marble memorial to Baba Ram Rai Ji, eldest son of Guru Har Rai Ji, the seventh Guru, whose encampment here in the Doon valley gave the city its name.
HinduismGuruvayur Temple
· India · temple
Known to generations of devotees as Bhuloka Vaikunta, Vishnu's abode brought to earth, this ancient Kerala shrine consecrated to Lord Guruvayurappan stands among the holiest and most frequented Vaishnava pilgrimage places in the world.
IslamGyanvapi Mosque
· India · mosque
The Gyanvapi Mosque is a Sunni Muslim place of worship in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, built in the late seventeenth century beside the present Kashi Vishwanath Temple in one of India's most ancient sacred precincts.
IslamHagia Sophia Grand Mosque
Istanbul · Türkiye · mosque
Justinian's Great Church of 537, the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years, became the grand mosque of Istanbul in 1453, a museum in 1935, and a working mosque again on 24 July 2020, its Byzantine mosaics still open to view in the upper gallery.
IslamHaji Ali Dargah
Mumbai · India · dargah
The mazar of Pir Haji Ali Shah Bukhari stands on a rocky islet in the Arabian Sea off Worli, reached only on foot over a 700 yard causeway that the tides still command, and open to pilgrims of every faith.