Sacred Places
584 places found
IndigenousAltar of Consus
· Italy · sacred natural site
An ancient subterranean Roman altar dedicated jointly to the gods Consus, Mars, and the lares, set beneath the Circus Maximus in the heart of the early city of Rome.
HinduismAmarnath Temple
· India · temple
A high Himalayan cave shrine in Jammu and Kashmir where a naturally forming ice lingam is venerated as Lord Śiva, drawing one of India's great seasonal pilgrimages.
ShintoAmatsu Shrine
Itoigawa · Japan · shrine
A venerable jinja in the Ichinomiya quarter of Itoigawa on Japan's Sea of Japan coast, one of three shrines that each claim to have been the ichinomiya, the foremost shrine, of the old province of Echigo.
HinduismAmbalappuzha Sri Krishna Temple
Ambalappuzha · India · temple
A Vaishnava shrine on the Kerala backwaters consecrated to Sri Krishna in his Parthasarathy form, counted among the seven great Temples of the former kingdom of Travancore and famed across South India for its Ambalapuzha Paal Payasam offering.
HinduismAmrutesvara Temple
Amruthapura · India · temple
A Hoysala-era Shiva Temple in the village of Amruthapura in Karnataka's Chikkamagaluru district, raised in 1196 CE and renowned for the finely lathe-turned pillars and narrative relief panels of its open pillared hall.
HinduismAnanta Vasudeva Temple
Bhubaneswar · India · temple
A thirteenth-century Vaishnava shrine on the northern shore of Bhubaneswar's Bindu Sarovar tank, the Ananta Vasudeva Temple houses black granite images of Lord Krishna, Lord Balarama, and Devi Subhadra, the principal Vishnu sanctuary in a Temple city otherwise devoted overwhelmingly to Lord Shiva.
HinduismAnanthapura Lake Temple
Ananthapura · India · temple
Rising from the center of a spring-fed lake in Kerala's Kasaragod district, this shrine to Lord Vishnu as Ananthapadmanabha is the only lake Temple in the state, revered by many as the Moolasthanam, the original seat, of the deity enshrined at Thiruvananthapuram's Padmanabhaswamy Temple.
HinduismAnanthasayana Temple
Ananthasayanagudi · India · temple
A Vijayanagara-era Hindu Temple at Ananthasayanagudi near Hampi in Karnataka, raised by the emperor Krishnadeva Raya in 1524 CE in memory of his young son and centrally protected today as a Monument of National Importance.
BuddhismAngkor Wat
Siem Reap · Cambodia · temple
The largest religious monument on earth, built for Lord Vishnu by Suryavarman II in the 12th century and in continuous worship ever since: a living Theravada Buddhist Temple whose five towers stand on the Cambodian flag.
HinduismArasavalli Sun Temple
Arasavalli · India · temple
A seventh-century Hindu shrine to Lord Surya in the village of Arasavalli near Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh, one of only two ancient Sun Temples in India still standing and in worship, renowned for the sunrise that falls upon the deity's feet twice each year.
HinduismArulmigu Dhandayuthapani Swamy Temple, Palani
Palani (Dindigul district) · India · temple
The third of Lord Murugan's Arupadai Veedu, where the Lord stands as Dhandayuthapani, the boy renunciate with only a staff, in a murti tradition holds Siddha Bhogar fused from nine poisons into medicine, atop the hill named by His parents' consolation: Pazham Nee, you are the fruit.
HinduismArulmigu Ekambaranathar Temple, Kanchipuram
Kanchipuram · India · temple
The earth shrine of the five Pancha Bhoota Sthalams, where Lord Shiva Is Worshipped as the Prithvi lingam of sand that Maa Kamakshi shaped and embraced, beneath a mango tree venerated as 3,500 years old.