Sacred Places
584 places found
HinduismAkhadachandi Temple
Bhubaneswar · India · temple
A tenth-century Kalinga-style shrine on the southwestern bank of Bhubaneswar's sacred Bindusagar tank, Akhadachandi Temple honours Maa Mahishasuramardini, the Goddess in her form as slayer of the buffalo demon, within the dense cluster of ancient shrines that fills the city's Old Town.
JainismAkkana Basadi
Shravanabelagola · India · temple
Consecrated in 1181 CE on Chandragiri hill at Shravanabelagola, Karnataka, Akkana Basadi is a Hoysala-era Jain basadi raised by the devout laywoman Achiyakka in honour of Tirthankara Parshvanatha, its deliberately plain stone walls and lathe-turned pillars a quiet expression of Jain austerity.
HinduismAkshardham
New Delhi · India · temple
A vast contemporary Hindu mandir campus on the Yamuna's west bank in East Delhi, raised without structural steel by 11,000 artisans and volunteers, and recognised by Guinness World Records in 2007 as the world's largest comprehensive Hindu Temple.
IslamAlamgir Mosque
Varanasi · India · mosque
Raised in 1669 by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb on the high bank above Panchganga Ghat in Varanasi, the Alamgir Mosque stands where wide stone steps meet the Ganges, its domes and surviving corner turret rising over a site earlier accounts describe as the Hindu Temple of Bindu Madhava.
ChristianityAlbenga Cathedral
Albenga · Italy · church
The medieval cathedral of Albenga on Liguria's western coast, dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel, its banded brick campanile rising over a nave first raised around 1100 on the foundations of a church from the turn of the fifth century.
ChristianityAlexander Nevsky Cathedral
Sofia · Bulgaria · church
Sofia's golden-domed patriarchal cathedral, raised by the whole Bulgarian people as a memorial to the Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Moldavian, Finnish and Romanian soldiers who died in the 1877-1878 war that ended five centuries of Ottoman rule.
IslamAl-Kadhimiya Mosque
Baghdad · Iraq · mosque
The Twelver Shia shrine in Baghdad's Kadhimiya district holding the tombs of the 7th Imam, Musa al-Kadhim, and the 9th Imam, Muhammad al-Jawad, beneath twin gold domes.
IslamAl-Masjid al-Aqsa
Jerusalem · Israel · mosque
The Farthest Mosque of the Night Journey and the first qibla of Islam: a 14-hectare walled sanctuary in the Old City of Jerusalem holding the silver-domed Qibli Mosque and the golden Dome of the Rock, Islam's third holiest site.
IslamAl-Masjid al-Haram and the Kaaba
Makkah · Saudi Arabia · mosque
The holiest sanctuary of Islam, enclosing the Kaaba, the qibla toward which every Muslim on earth turns in prayer. Entry to Makkah is reserved for Muslims; this listing serves the devotional reference of Muslim devotees worldwide.
IslamAl-Masjid an-Nabawi
Madinah · Saudi Arabia · mosque
The mosque the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, built in 622 CE beside his home, where he now rests beneath the Green Dome: the second holiest mosque in Islam, open around the clock to the Muslims of the world.
IslamAl-Quds Mosque Hamburg
Hamburg · Germany · mosque
A former Sunni mosque in Hamburg's St. Georg district, open from 1993 until German authorities ordered its closure in August 2010, remembered chiefly as a gathering place for members of the Hamburg cell that carried out the September 11 attacks.
ChristianityAltamura Cathedral
Altamura · Italy · church
A thirteenth-century 'palatine' cathedral in the Apulian hill town of Altamura, raised at the order of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, its twin Gothic bell towers and carved rose window rising over the old town's main square.