Sacred Places
584 places found
HinduismHoysaleswara Temple, Halebidu
Halebidu (Hassan district) · India · temple
The largest Temple the Hoysalas raised to Lord Shiva: twin sanctums for king and queen, ringed by soapstone friezes of elephants, lions and the epics, at the heart of the ruined capital Dorasamudra and inscribed by UNESCO in 2023.
JainismHutheesing Jain Temple
Ahmedabad · India · temple
A white marble Shvetambara Jain Temple raised outside Ahmedabad's Delhi Gate in 1848, dedicated to Lord Dharmanatha, the fifteenth Tirthankara, and counted among the finest nineteenth-century expressions of the Maru-Gurjara Temple tradition.
ChristianityInnsbruck Cathedral
Innsbruck · Austria · church
Innsbruck Cathedral, the Dom zu St. Jakob, is the Baroque cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Innsbruck, raised between 1717 and 1724 on the site of a much older parish church in the heart of the Tyrolean capital. Dedicated to Saint James the Great, it holds beneath its twin domed towers one of the most venerated Marian paintings in Christendom.
ShintoIse Jingu (Ise Grand Shrine)
Ise · Japan · shrine
The most venerable sanctuary of Shinto: 125 shrines in the forests of Ise, where Amaterasu-Omikami dwells at the Naiku and Toyouke-Omikami at the Geku, and the whole sanctuary is rebuilt anew every twenty years.
HinduismISKCON Temple, Vrindavan
Vrindavan · India · temple
The Sri Krishna Balaram Mandir, known widely as ISKCON Vrindavan, is a Gaudiya Vaishnava Temple in the sacred town of Vrindavan, consecrated in 1975 to Lord Krishna and His elder brother Lord Balarama. Its white marble sanctum, carved in Rajasthani style, stands among the most visited centres of Krishna devotion anywhere in the world.
JudaismItalian Synagogue
Venice · Italy · synagogue
The Italian Synagogue, the Scola Italiana, stands on the Campo del Ghetto Nuovo in Venice, a plain but luminous prayer hall raised in 1575 by Jews of the Italian rite within the world's first Jewish ghetto. Five tall arched windows light its upper floor, one of five historic synagogues still standing in the old ghetto quarter.
ShintoIwa Shrine
Shiso · Japan · shrine
Iwa Shrine, Iwa Jinja, stands among old cedar groves in the hills of Shiso, Hyogo Prefecture, the Ichinomiya, or foremost shrine, of the old province of Harima. Its kami is Okuninushi no Mikoto, the great land-builder of Japanese myth, worshipped here alongside Sukunabikona no Kami and Shitateru-hime no Kami.
HinduismJagannath Temple
· India · temple
The Jagannath Temple at Puri on the coast of Odisha is one of the holiest Vaishnava shrines of India, honouring Jagannath, the Lord of the Universe, a form of Vishnu worshipped alongside his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra.
HinduismJagdish Temple, Udaipur
Udaipur · India · temple
Raised on a high marble terrace at the heart of Udaipur, the Jagdish Temple has welcomed worshippers in unbroken succession since 1651, its carved stone spire rising nearly seventy-nine feet above the city's old royal quarter. Its sanctum holds a four-armed image of Lord Jagannath, worshipped here as a form of Lord Vishnu and Lord Krishna, cut from a single block of black stone.
JainismJain Temple, Kidanganad
· India · temple
A medieval Jain sanctuary in Kerala's Wayanad district, this 13th–14th-century stone structure stands as a testament to the Jain communities who once flourished in the forested highlands of south India.
ChristianityJakarta Cathedral
Jakarta · Indonesia · church
Jakarta Cathedral, dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption, is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Jakarta, its twin neo-Gothic spires of pierced white ironwork rising over Merdeka Square beside the great dome of Istiqlal Mosque.
HinduismJakhu Temple
Shimla · India · temple
Jakhu Temple crowns Shimla's highest peak at 2,455 metres, an ancient hill-shrine to Lord Hanuman watched over today by a saffron-orange murti 108 feet tall and by the Temple's resident troop of rhesus macaques.