Sacred Places
584 places found
BuddhismKesaria Stupa
Kesariya · India · stupa
Rising some 104 feet above the plains of East Champaran, Kesaria is among the tallest Buddhist stupas ever excavated, a tiered brick mandala begun in the Mauryan era and raised to its present form under the Pala kings.
ShintoKikuchi Shrine
Kikuchi · Japan · shrine
A Meiji-era Shinto shrine in Kikuchi, Kumamoto, raised on the grounds of the old Kikuchi castle to honour three loyalist lords of the Kikuchi clan as kami.
ChristianityKlagenfurt Cathedral
Klagenfurt · Austria · church
The cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt in Carinthia, Austria, raised as a Protestant church in 1581 and now the city's principal parish church.
HinduismKonark Sun Temple
Konark (Puri district) · India · temple
The thirteenth-century chariot of Lord Surya on the Odisha coast: twenty-four carved stone wheels drawn by seven horses, raised by King Narasimhadeva I around 1250 CE and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984.
HinduismKoneswaram Temple
· Sri Lanka · temple
Koneswaram Temple, known locally as Thirukoneswaram, is a historic Hindu Temple complex crowning a cliff above Trincomalee harbour in Sri Lanka, honoured as the most sacred of the island's five ancient Ishwarams of Shiva.
ChristianityKönigsberg Cathedral
Kaliningrad · Russia · church
A fourteenth-century Brick Gothic cathedral on Kneiphof island in Kaliningrad, the most significant surviving building of the historic city of Königsberg, largely lost in the Second World War, and today a museum, concert hall, and the burial place of the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
HinduismKopeshwar Temple
Khidrapur · India · temple
A twelfth-century Temple on the Krishna river at Khidrapur in Maharashtra, raised by the Shilahara dynasty and dedicated to Lord Shiva as Kopeshwar, the Wrathful One, paired uniquely in the same sanctum with Lord Vishnu.
ShintoKotohira-gū
Kotohira · Japan · shrine
A Shinto shrine on the slopes of Mount Zōzu in Kagawa, reached by a stone stairway of 785 steps, long venerated by sailors and fisherfolk as the guardian of safe passage at sea.
HinduismKrishna Janmasthan Temple Complex
Mathura · India · temple
A Temple complex in Mathura revered as the birthplace of Lord Krishna, built around a modest underground shrine that pilgrims hold to be the very prison cell of his birth.
HinduismKukkuteswara Temple
· India · temple
Also known as Sri Kukkuteswara Swami Temple, this Hindu shrine in Pithapuram, Andhra Pradesh honors Lord Kukkuteswara, a rooster form of Lord Siva, alongside his consort Rajarajeswari Devi, and is revered in both Saivite and Shakta traditions as one of the eighteen Maha Shakta pithas.
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.