Sacred Places
263 places found
HinduismMỹ Sơn Sanctuary
Duy Xuyen · Vietnam · temple
A valley of more than seventy ruined brick Temples raised between the fourth and thirteenth centuries by the Hindu kings of Champa, the foremost Shaiva sanctuary of a civilisation now gone, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999.
HinduismNageshvara Jyotirlinga
· India · temple
A Hindu shrine at Dwarka on the coast of Gujarat in western India, dedicated to Shiva and counted among the twelve Jyotirlinga sites named in the Shiva Purana.
HinduismNageshvara Temple, Begur
Bengaluru · India · temple
In the town of Begur on Bengaluru's southern edge, the Nageshvara Temple is a Western Ganga dynasty shrine to Lord Shiva whose ninth-century stones carry the earliest inscription naming the city that grew up around it.
HinduismNavlakha Temple, Ghumli
Ghumli · India · temple
A twelfth-century Sun Temple standing in ruin at Ghumli on Gujarat's Saurashtra peninsula, raised in the Maru-Gurjara style by the Jethwa dynasty and counted among the oldest Surya shrines in the state.
HinduismNegheriting Shiva Doul
Dergaon · India · temple
A Panchayatana Shiva Temple crowning a hillock at Dergaon in Assam's Golaghat district, rebuilt in brick by the Ahom crown in 1765 and still a living centre of worship today.
HinduismNellaiappar Temple
Tirunelveli · India · temple
A great Saiva sanctuary on the Thamirabarani's northern bank in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, where Lord Shiva is enshrined as Nellaiappar beside Maa Parvati as Kanthimathi Ambal, its two giant stone pillars famed for ringing forty-eight distinct musical notes.
HinduismNew Vishwanath Temple
Varanasi · India · temple
A soaring white marble Shiva sanctuary rising within the Banaras Hindu University campus in Varanasi, built by the Birla family and known to generations of students simply as VT.
HinduismNidhivan
Vrindavan · India · sacred natural site
A walled grove of ancient, paired Tulsi trees in Vrindavan believed by devotees to be the nightly stage of Lord Krishna and Radha Rani's rasa lila, sealed to all visitors after dusk.
HinduismNyatapola Temple
Bhaktapur · Nepal · temple
The tallest Temple in Nepal, a five-tiered Newar pagoda raised in six months in 1701 to 1702 by King Bhupatindra Malla and consecrated to the tantric Divine Mother Maa Siddhi Lakshmi.
HinduismOm Banna
Chotila · India · shrine
A roadside folk shrine on the Pali-Jodhpur highway in Rajasthan, venerating the young Rajput Om Singh Rathore and the Royal Enfield motorcycle he was riding when he died in 1988.
HinduismPadmanabhaswamy Temple
· India · temple
A Hindu Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, dedicated to Vishnu as Anantha Padmanabhaswamy and counted among the 108 Divya Desams of the Sri Vaishnava tradition.
HinduismParsurameswara Temple
Bhubaneswar · India · temple
Raised around 650 CE in the heart of Bhubaneswar, Parsurameswara Temple is widely regarded as the best-preserved early Odia Temple to survive from the Shailodbhava era, its sandstone tower rising over one of the oldest sacred sites in the city.