Sacred Places
584 places found
HinduismMahalakshmi Temple, Mumbai
Mumbai · India · temple
A cherished seaside shrine to Maa Mahalakshmi on Mumbai's Breach Candy shoreline, raised in 1831 by the merchant Dhakji Dadaji and now one of the city's most visited Temples.
BuddhismMaha Stupa at Amaravati
Amaravathi · India · stupa
A ruined Buddhist mahachaitya on the banks of the Krishna River in Andhra Pradesh, once the most richly carved stupa in the Buddhist world and now a protected archaeological sanctuary.
HinduismMahishasuramardini Mandapa
Mahabalipuram · India · temple
A late seventh-century Pallava rock-cut cave shrine on the hill above Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, carved with three of the era's most celebrated reliefs: Maa Durga triumphant over the buffalo demon, Lord Vishnu reclining on the cosmic serpent, and Lord Shiva enthroned with Maa Parvati and their son.
HinduismMalinithan
Likabali · India · temple
A ruined early-medieval Temple crowning a twenty-one-metre hillock above the Brahmaputra plains near Likabali in Arunachal Pradesh, its carved stone plinth and granite sculpture among the richest archaeological finds in the state.
HinduismMallikarjuna Temple
· India · temple
Perched amid the forested hills of Srisailam in Andhra Pradesh, this ancient Hindu shrine enshrines Lord Śiva as Mallikārjuna, one of the twelve sacred Jyotirliṅgas, and also revered as a Śaktipīṭha, making it doubly holy within the Hindu tradition.
HinduismManakamana Temple
Manakamana · Nepal · temple
A two-tiered pagoda shrine to Maa Manakamana crowning Kafakdada Hill in Nepal's Gorkha District, founded in 1678 and reached today by a cable car that carries pilgrims 2.8 kilometres above the Trishuli and Marsyangdi valleys in about ten minutes.
HinduismManakula Vinayagar Temple
Puducherry · India · temple
A Ganesha Temple of great antiquity in the heart of Puducherry, Manakula Vinayagar Temple honours Lord Ganesha in his form as Manakula Vinayagar, his sacred image facing the rising sun a short walk from the Bay of Bengal.
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.
HinduismMangueshi Temple
Priol · India · temple
Set among the laterite hills of Priol in Goa's Ponda taluka, Shri Manguesh Temple enshrines Lord Shiva as Manguesh, the kuladevata of the Goud Saraswat Brahmin community, and stands among the most visited Hindu shrines in the state.
ZoroastrianismMarbin Fortress
· Iran · shrine
Perched atop a hill eight kilometres west of Isfahan, the Ātashgāh is a Sasanian-era sacred complex whose ruins preserve the remnants of Zoroastrian fire-shrines, priestly quarters, and a sentinel tower that once kept watch over the plain below.
BuddhismMarichi Temple
· India · monastery
A rare sacred space in Baleswar district, Odisha, where Hindu and Buddhist devotion meet under one roof, sheltering tantric, Jain, and Buddhist icons carved in the late eleventh century alongside an actively worshipped form of Goddess Durga.
HinduismMartand Sun Temple
Mattan · India · temple
On a high plateau above Mattan in Kashmir's Anantnag district, the Martand Sun Temple stands in ruin as one of the most sublime remnants of ancient Kashmiri devotion, raised in the eighth century to honour Surya, the sun, under his Sanskrit name Martanda.