Sacred Places
584 places found
IslamJama Masjid, Agra
Agra · India · mosque
The Jama Masjid of Agra rises in red sandstone and white marble beside Agra Fort, a congregational mosque that Princess Jahanara Begum, eldest daughter of Shah Jahan, personally endowed and gave to the city's Friday prayer.
IslamJama Masjid, Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad · India · mosque
The Jama Masjid of Ahmedabad has gathered the city's Friday congregation since Sultan Ahmad Shah I inaugurated it on 4 January 1424, its forest of two hundred and sixty carved pillars rising in yellow sandstone at the heart of the old walled city.
IslamJama Masjid, Champaner
Champaner · India · mosque
A grand Friday mosque raised in 1513 within the fortified Sultanate capital of Champaner, its twin thirty metre minarets and carved sandstone screens ranked among the finest achievements of Gujarat's Indo-Islamic architecture.
IslamJama Masjid, Delhi (Masjid-i-Jahan-Numa)
Delhi (Old Delhi) · India · mosque
The imperial congregational mosque of Mughal Delhi, built by Shah Jahan between 1650 and 1656, whose red sandstone courtyard holds some 25,000 worshippers in salah beneath three striped marble domes and two 40-metre minarets.
IslamJama Masjid, Jaunpur
Jaunpur · India · mosque
Known locally as Badi Masjid, the great mosque, this fifteenth century Friday mosque of the Sharqi sultans rises on the Gomti's bank in Jaunpur, its towering pishtaq gateway among the largest in India and still gathering worshippers for jumu'ah prayer today.
IslamJameh Mosque of Qazvin
Qazvin · Iran · mosque
Iran's oldest Friday mosque still gathering worshippers, the Jameh Mosque of Qazvin layers an Abbasid core, a double shelled Seljuk dome, and Safavid additions around a courtyard raised, tradition holds, on the ruins of a Zoroastrian fire Temple.
HinduismJanaki Mandir, Janakpurdham
Janakpur · Nepal · temple
The white marble palace-temple of Maa Sita in Janakpurdham, ancient Mithila's capital and Her traditional birthplace, completed in 1910 and honoured as the largest Temple in Nepal.
HinduismJavari Temple, Khajuraho
Khajuraho · India · temple
A slender eleventh century shrine to Lord Vishnu in Khajuraho's quieter Eastern Group, its soaring curvilinear tower and serpent headed Makara Torana entrance arch counted among the most finely proportioned in the whole Chandela Temple city.
HinduismJoy Kali Temple
Dhaka · Bangladesh · temple
A twin shrined Temple in Old Dhaka where a terracotta crowned tower to Lord Shiva rises beside the five spired sanctum of Maa Kali, on a lane between Thatari Bazar and Wari that has carried the Temple's own name for generations.
IndigenousKachikally Museum and Crocodile Pool
Bakau · The Gambia · sacred natural site
In the heart of Bakau on the Gambian coast, the Kachikally pool has been tended by the Bojang family for generations as a home to West African crocodiles held sacred, visited by those seeking blessings of fertility and healing. A small museum beside the pool preserves the wider cultural traditions of the Mandinka and other Gambian peoples.
HinduismKailasanathar Temple, Kanchipuram
Kanchipuram · India · temple
Rising in the western quarter of Kanchipuram, the Kailasanathar Temple is among the oldest surviving stone Temples in South India, raised for Lord Shiva by the Pallava dynasty around 700 CE. Its sandstone tower and sculpted courtyard shrines mark the moment Dravidian Temple building first stood free of rock and timber.
HinduismKailasa Temple, Ellora
Ellora (Verul) · India · temple
The world's largest monolithic rock-cut Temple, carved top-down from a single basalt cliff in the 8th century as Mount Kailash, the abode of Lord Shiva, brought to earth at Ellora.