Sacred Places
263 places found
HinduismRamanathaswamy Temple
· India · temple
A supremely sacred Śaiva Temple on the island of Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, housing one of the twelve Jyotirliṅgas and revered as a Char Dhām site where, by tradition, Lord Rāma himself worshipped Shiva before crossing to Laṅkā.
HinduismRamappa Temple
Palampet · India · temple
A thirteenth-century Kakatiya Shiva Temple beside Ramappa Lake, inscribed by UNESCO in 2021, and popularly named not for its god but for Ramappa, the sculptor who carved it.
HinduismRam Mandir
· India · temple
Rising at the sacred site venerated across millennia as Ram Janmabhoomi, the birthplace of Lord Rama, this grand Hindu Temple complex in Ayodhya consecrated its presiding deity, Ram Lalla (Infant Rama), in January 2024, drawing hundreds of thousands of pilgrims within its first day alone.
HinduismRamna Kali Temple
Dhaka · Bangladesh · temple
In the Ramna quarter of Dhaka, this Temple to Maa Kali was destroyed in the 1971 Liberation War and rose again five decades later, reconsecrated in December 2021 as both a living shrine and a memorial to those killed there.
HinduismRudra Mahalaya Temple
Siddhpur · India · temple
The Rudra Mahalaya, or Rudramal, was one of the largest and most richly carved Shiva Temples ever raised in Gujarat, begun by the Chaulukya king Mularaja in 943 CE and consecrated two centuries later by Jayasimha Siddharaja. What survives at Siddhpur today is a dignified fragment: two carved torans, four pillars of the central shrine, and a western range later rebuilt as the town's Jami Masjid.
HinduismRudranath Temple
Gopeshwar · India · temple
A natural rock shrine at about 3,600 m in the Garhwal Himalaya where the face of Lord Shiva is worshipped as Neelkanth Mahadev, the hardest of the Panch Kedar to reach.
HinduismRukmini Devi Temple
Dwarka · India · temple
A shrine to Maa Rukmini, chief queen of Lord Krishna and worshipped as an incarnation of Goddess Lakshmi, its carved tower rising two kilometres from Dwarka's Dwarkadhish Temple on the Gujarat coast.
HinduismSabarimala Temple complex
· India · temple
Perched atop a forested hill in Kerala's Pathanamthitta district, the Sabarimala Sree Dharma Sastha Temple draws between ten and fifteen million pilgrims annually, ranking among the world's most-visited sacred sites, its deity Lord Ayyappan revered as the divine offspring of Shiva and Mohini.
HinduismSankat Mochan Hanuman Temple
Varanasi · India · temple
A beloved Hanuman Temple on the Assi in Varanasi, founded by the poet-saint Tulsidas at the place of his vision of Lord Hanuman, and rebuilt in its present form around 1900.
HinduismSasthamcotta Sree Dharma Sastha Temple
Sasthamkotta · India · temple
A Temple to Lord Ayyappa, worshipped here as Shri Dharma Sastha, standing on the shore of Sasthamkotta Lake, the largest freshwater lake in Kerala, which embraces the sanctuary on three sides.
HinduismShankaracharya Temple
Srinagar · India · temple
The oldest shrine of worship in the Kashmir Valley, an octagonal stone sanctuary to Lord Shiva crowning a hill above Srinagar, its terrace commanding the full sweep of Dal Lake and the city below.
HinduismShore Temple, Mahabalipuram
Mahabalipuram (Chengalpattu district) · India · temple
An early 8th-century Pallava granite Temple on the Bay of Bengal at Mahabalipuram: two shrines of Lord Shiva flanking a reclining Lord Vishnu carved on the bedrock, the last of the mariners' Seven Pagodas, protected within the UNESCO Group of Monuments.