Sacred Places
32 places found
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.
JainismKulpakji
Kolanupaka · India · temple
Kulpakji, also called the Kolanupaka Temple, is a Śvetāmbara Jain sanctuary in Kolanupaka village, Telangana, honoured for roughly two thousand years and famed for its Manikyasvami image of Lord Mahavira, carved, tradition holds, from a single piece of jade.
HinduismLake Manasarovar
Burang · People's Republic of China · sacred natural site
A high freshwater lake beside Mount Kailash in Tibet, revered as a Shakti Peetha by Hindus and held sacred by Buddhists, Jains and the Bon as one of the world's holiest bodies of water.
JainismMangi-Tungi
Satana · India · temple
A twin-pinnacled Digambara Jain Siddha Kshetra in the Sahyadri hills of Nashik district, Mangi-Tungi rises above the Maharashtra plains as a place tradition holds countless souls crossed into final liberation, and where a 108-foot Lord Rishabhanatha now stands carved from the living rock.
Multi-faithMount Kailash and Lake Mansarovar
Ngari Prefecture · China · sacred natural site
The unclimbed 6,638 m peak of western Tibet, held holy by Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Bonpos alike, circled by the 53 km kora beside the sacred freshwater of Lake Mansarovar.
JainismNakoda Parshwanath Jain Temple
Nakoda · India · temple
In the Thar desert country of Barmer district, Nakodaji is one of western India's most beloved Shvetambara Jain pilgrimage Temples, its sanctum holding a dark stone image of Lord Parshvanatha watched over by Lord Nakoda Bhairav, the tirtha's guardian protector.
JainismNehanurpatti
· India · temple
Neganur Patti is a small Tamil Nadu village near Gingee sheltering the Adukkankal hillock, an ancient Jain site bearing cave beds used by wandering monks, fourth-century Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions, and prehistoric lime rock paintings dating to around 1000 BCE.
JainismPanchakuta Basadi, Kambadahalli
Kambadahalli · India · temple
A cluster of five interconnected Jain shrines in the village of Kambadahalli in Karnataka, raised under the Western Ganga dynasty and counted among the finest surviving examples of Dravidian Temple architecture in the Jain tradition.
JainismParshvanatha Temple
Khajuraho · India · temple
The largest of Khajuraho's Jain Temples, raised in the tenth century for a Hindu patron and consecrated to Lord Parshvanatha in 1860, its sandstone walls carrying both Jain and Vaishnavaite sculpture side by side.
JainismRishabhdeo
Rishabhdeo (Dhulev) · India · temple
Rishabhdeo, also called Dhulev, is a Jain pilgrimage town in Udaipur district honouring Lord Rishabhanatha, the first tirthankara, whose black stone image draws Digambara and Svetambara pilgrims alike, along with Bhil and Hindu devotees who know him as Kalaji. Fifty-two carved spires rise over the Temple in a symbolic echo of Nandishwar Dweep.
JainismSaavira Kambada Basadi
Moodabidri · India · temple
A Digambara Jain basadi in Moodabidri, Karnataka, its forest of one thousand individually carved granite pillars framing the sanctum of Lord Chandraprabha, eighth tirthankara, beneath a fifteenth-century manastambha rising fifty feet before the entrance.
JainismShankheshwar Parshvanath Jain Temple
Antwerp · Belgium · temple
The Shankheshwar Parshvanath Jain Temple rises in white marble from the streets of Wilrijk, the only Jain Temple on the European continent and the largest anywhere outside India. Consecrated to Lord Parshvanath, the twenty-third Tirthankara, its carved stone was shaped in India and carried across the sea to Belgium.