Sacred Places
584 places found
HinduismMaa Vaishno Devi Temple
· India · temple
A great Hindu pilgrimage shrine of the Mother goddess on Trikuta mountain in Jammu and Kashmir, drawing millions of devotees each year to the cave sanctuary of Mata Vaishno Devi.
HinduismMaa Vajreshwari Temple
Vajreshwari · India · temple
On the volcanic Mandagiri hillock above the river Tansa, Maa Vajreshwari, the Thunderbolt Goddess, gave her own name to the town that shelters her Temple, some 75 km from Mumbai in Maharashtra's Thane district.
HinduismMaa Vimala Temple
· India · temple
The Vimala Temple, Mãā Bimåḷā Deuḷå in Odia, honors Goddess Vimala, or Bimala, within the Jagannath Temple complex at Puri in Odisha, India. Widely regarded as a Shakta pitha, it stands among the holiest of shrines devoted to the Hindu Goddess.
HinduismMaa Vishalakshi Temple
· India · temple
A sacred Śākta shrine on the banks of the Gaṅgā in Vārāṇasī, the Viśālākṣī Devī Temple honours the Goddess Pārvatī in her wide-eyed form and stands among the most venerated of the 51 Śakti Pīṭhas.
HinduismMadhyamaheshwar
Gaundar · India · temple
Reached only after a trek of sixteen to eighteen kilometres into the Garhwal Himalayas, Madhyamaheshwar enshrines the nabhi, the navel, of Lord Shiva, third of the five sacred stations of the Panch Kedar pilgrimage, standing at 3,497 metres beneath the snow walls of Chaukhamba.
IslamMadrid Central Mosque
Madrid · Spain · mosque
A modern Sunni mosque in the Cuatro Caminos quarter of Madrid's Tetuan district, opened in 1988 as the first mosque to serve the city since the end of Islamic rule in 1085.
HinduismMahabaleshwar Temple
Gokarna · India · temple
An ancient Shaiva Temple on Gokarna's Arabian Sea shore in Karnataka, enshrining the Atmalinga of Lord Shiva within a granite sanctum of classical Dravidian design.
HinduismMahabhairav Temple
Tezpur · India · temple
A hilltop Shaiva sanctuary in northern Tezpur, Assam, enshrining Lord Mahabhairav, a fierce form of Lord Shiva, upon a lingam that devotees hold to be a living stone.
BuddhismMahabodhi Temple
Bodh Gaya · India · temple
The Temple that rises over the spot where the Buddha attained enlightenment beneath the Bodhi tree. Its 50 m brick tower, raised in the 5th to 6th century CE on the site of Emperor Ashoka's shrine, stands beside a living descendant of the original tree and the Vajrasana, the Diamond Throne.
HinduismMahadeva Temple, Itagi
Itagi · India · temple
A twelfth-century Lord Shiva Temple in the village of Itagi in Karnataka's Koppal district, raised by a Western Chalukya military commander and honoured in its own foundation inscription as the Emperor among Temples.
HinduismMahadev Temple, Tambdi Surla
Tambdi Surla · India · temple
A living thirteenth-century Shaiva sanctuary in a forest clearing at the foot of the Western Ghats, the sole surviving example of Kadamba-era basalt Temple architecture in Goa.
HinduismMahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga
· India · temple
Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga, set beside the sacred Śiprā river in ancient Ujjain, enshrines Lord Śiva as Mahākāla, sovereign of time, and is counted among the twelve holiest Jyotirliṅga pilgrimage sites across India.