Sacred Places
584 places found
HinduismHalasuru Someshwara Temple
Bengaluru · India · temple
One of Bengaluru's oldest surviving shrines, this Chola-era sanctuary in the Halasuru quarter honours Lord Shiva as Someshwara, sovereign of the moon, beneath a soaring painted gopura enlarged by the Vijayanagara-era rulers of the city.
BuddhismHall of Guanyin
· People's Republic of China · monastery
The Guanyin Hall (觀音殿) is the principal ancillary sanctuary within East Asian Buddhist Temple complexes, devoted to Avalokiteśvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, venerated across China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam in a rich variety of sacred forms.
TaoismHanging Temple (Xuankong Si)
Hunyuan (Datong) · China · temple
A Northern Wei Temple hung on the cliff of Jinlong Gorge at Mount Heng, where Sakyamuni Buddha, Laozi and Confucius are enshrined together in one hall.
HinduismHanuman Garhi, Ayodhya
Ayodhya · India · temple
The fortress shrine of Lord Hanuman, kotwal of Ayodhya, where pilgrims climb 76 steps to take Bajrangbali's darshan before approaching Ram Janmabhoomi.
SikhismHarmandir Sahib
· India · gurdwara
Harmandir Sahib, the Golden Temple, stands at the spiritual heart of Sikhism in Amritsar, Punjab, India, drawing millions of pilgrims and seekers to its shimmering sanctum each year.
HinduismHarshnath Temple
Sikar · India · temple
Crowning a hilltop above the plains of Sikar district, this tenth-century ruin honours Lord Shiva as Harsha, the joyful deity who tradition holds dwells on the mountain as its own tutelary guardian, roughly fourteen kilometres from Sikar town.
IslamHassan II Mosque
Casablanca · Morocco · mosque
The Hassan II Mosque rises on a promontory over the Atlantic in Casablanca, its 210-metre minaret the world's second-tallest, one of the very few mosques in Morocco open to visitors of every faith.
IslamHazrat Nizamuddin Dargah
New Delhi · India · dargah
The tomb of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya, Mehboob-e-Ilahi, the Beloved of God, where qawwali was born and is still sung every evening between the master's mazar and that of his disciple Amir Khusrau.
HinduismHidimba Devi Temple, Dhungri Manali
Manali · India · temple
A sixteenth-century wooden cave shrine in the cedar forest of Dhungri above Manali, raised over the rock where Maa Hidimba Devi is said to have performed tapasya, and worshipped by the Kullu valley as its presiding goddess.
ShintoHiraoka Shrine
Higashiosaka · Japan · shrine
The Ichinomiya, or foremost shrine, of the old province of Kawachi, set on the wooded western slope of the Ikoma range, where the ancestral kami of the Fujiwara clan were worshipped centuries before two of them were carried east to found Nara's Kasuga Taisha.
ShintoHiroshima Gokoku Shrine
Hiroshima · Japan · shrine
A Shinto shrine within the grounds of Hiroshima Castle honouring the war dead of Hiroshima, destroyed in the atomic bombing of 1945 and rebuilt by the city's own citizens in the years that followed.
ChristianityHoly Rosary Cathedral
Kaohsiung · Taiwan · church
The oldest Catholic church in Taiwan and the mother church of the Archdiocese of Kaohsiung, raised near the Love River on the site of the straw mission that Spanish Dominican friars built there in 1859.