Sacred Places
263 places found
HinduismShri Sai Baba Temple, Shirdi
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A widely visited Hindu Temple complex in Shirdi, Ahilyanagar district, Maharashtra, built around the samadhi shrine of the nineteenth century saint Sai Baba, drawing millions of devotees from India and abroad each year.
HinduismShri Shanaishwar Devasthan, Shani Shingnapur
Shingnapur (Ahilyanagar district) · India · temple
The swayambhu black slab of Lord Shanidev stands on an open platform with no roof and no walls, in a village whose houses traditionally have no doors, held under his protection.
HinduismShri Trimbakeshwar Jyotirlinga
Trimbak (Nashik district) · India · temple
One of the Twelve Jyotirlingas, where the linga holds three faces worshipped as Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu, and Lord Shiva, at the foot of Brahmagiri hill where the Godavari river is born. Pilgrims bathe at Kushavarta, the tank honoured as Tirtharaj, before darshan in the black basalt Temple raised by the Peshwa.
HinduismShri Virupaksha Temple, Hampi
Hampi (Vijayanagara district) · India · temple
The living heart of ruined Vijayanagara: worship of Lord Shiva as Virupaksha, Lord of Maa Pampa, has continued here unbroken since about the 7th century, beneath a 50 metre gopuram that rises over the old Hampi Bazaar.
HinduismSiddhivinayak Temple, Mumbai
· India · temple
Shri Siddhivinayak Ganapati Mandir, nestled in Mumbai's Prabhadevi quarter, is a beloved Ganesha Temple that draws devotees from across Maharashtra and far beyond, one of the city's most deeply cherished places of Hindu worship.
HinduismSita Samahit Sthal
Sitamarhi · India · temple
A Hindu pilgrimage shrine in Bhadohi district, Uttar Pradesh, honoured as the ground where Maa Sita returned into the earth at the close of the Ramayana, now marked by a towering statue of Lord Hanuman.
HinduismSomnath Temple
· India · temple
Somnath (सोमनाथ), 'Lord of the Moon', stands on the Saurashtra coastline of Gujarat as the foremost among the twelve jyotirlinga shrines of Lord Shiva, a place of unbroken pilgrimage whose very name speaks of luminosity and divine sovereignty.
HinduismSree Vadakkunnathan Temple
Thrissur · India · temple
An ancient Shiva Temple crowning a hillock at the centre of Thrissur, where the presiding lingam lies wholly hidden beneath centuries of poured ghee, and around whose walls the great Thrissur Pooram is held.
HinduismSri Kalahasteeswara Swamy Temple, Srikalahasti
Srikalahasti (Tirupati district) · India · temple
The Vayu sthalam of the Pancha Bhoota Sthalams, where Lord Shiva Is Worshipped as air itself: a white swayambhu lingam no hand may touch, a sanctum lamp that flickers without wind, and India's best-known seat of the Rahu-Ketu Sarpa Dosha Nivarana puja, on the Swarnamukhi river near Tirupati.
HinduismSri Mariamman Temple, Singapore
Singapore · Singapore · temple
Singapore's oldest Hindu Temple, a Dravidian shrine to Maa Mariamman rising behind a six tiered gopuram above Chinatown's South Bridge Road.
HinduismSri Ranganathaswamy Temple, Srirangam
Srirangam, Tiruchirappalli · India · temple
The largest functioning Hindu Temple complex in the world: 156 acres of concentric walled enclosures on an island in the Kaveri, where Lord Ranganatha reclines facing south, first among the 108 Divya Desams.
HinduismSuka Temple
· India · temple
Suka Temple stands quiet and unworshipped in Bhubaneswar's Old Town, Odisha, its carved walls once dedicated to Lord Śiva and adorned with the eight dikpalas alongside their female counterparts in the upper wall niches.