Sacred Places
219 places found
ChristianityCathedral Basilica of St. Mary
· Romania · church
A Roman Catholic cathedral basilica dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary — a name shared by several historic cathedral churches in Latin America and Europe.
ChristianityCathedral of Ani
· Turkey · church
The eleventh-century Armenian Apostolic cathedral of the ruined Bagratid capital of Ani in eastern Turkey — the largest standing building of that lost medieval city.
ChristianityCathedral of Christ the Saviour
· Bosnia and Herzegovina · church
Moscow's great Russian Orthodox cathedral on the bank of the Moskva River — built, demolished under Soviet rule, and raised again in the 1990s as a memorial of national gratitude.
TaoismCebu Taoist Temple
· Philippines · temple
A multi-tiered Taoist temple in the Beverly Hills district of Cebu City, the Philippines — built in 1972 by the local Chinese Filipino community as a centre of Dao worship.
SikhismCentral Sikh Temple
· Singapore · gurdwara
The Central Sikh Gurdwara of Singapore — first established in 1912 and now housed in its purpose-built sanctuary at Towner Road in Kallang since 1986 — one of the seven gurdwaras of the city-state.
HinduismChandranath Temple
· Bangladesh · temple
A celebrated Śākta pīṭha atop Chandranāth Hill in Chittagong, Bangladesh, traditionally identified as the place where the right arm of Devī Satī fell to the earth.
HinduismChau Say Tevoda
· Cambodia · temple
A mid-twelfth-century Hindu sanctuary within the great Angkor complex of Cambodia, dedicated to Śiva and Viṣṇu and admired for its delicate devatā reliefs of female celestials.
TaoismChe Kung Miu
· People's Republic of China · temple
A temple in Tai Wai, Sha Tin, Hong Kong, dedicated to Che Kung — a Southern Song dynasty general honoured as a protective deity in Chinese folk religion.
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TaoismChin Swee Caves Temple
· Malaysia · temple
A Chinese temple set into the rocky highland forests of Genting, Pahang, Malaysia, dedicated to the Fujianese saint Master Qingshui and built over eighteen years by hand.
ChristianityChurch of the Holy Sepulchre
· Q12950813 · church
The fourth-century church in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, traditionally enclosing both the place of Christ's crucifixion at Golgotha and the empty tomb of his Resurrection.
HinduismDevasathan
· Thailand · temple
The official Hindu temple of the Thai royal court in Bangkok, founded in 1784 by King Rama I and home to the Court Brahmins descended from a priestly lineage of Rāmeśvaram.
HinduismDhakeshwari Temple
· Bangladesh · temple
The National Temple of Bangladesh, in Old Dhaka, dedicated to the goddess Dhākeśvarī — 'the goddess of Dhaka' — from whom the city itself is held to take its name.