Sacred Places
32 places found
JainismShankheshwar Parshvanath Jain Temple
Shankheshwar · India · temple
A foremost Svetambara Jain tirth in Shankheshwar, Patan district, Gujarat, dedicated to Bhagwan Parshvanath, the twenty-third Tirthankara, held second only to Shatrunjaya in importance to Svetambara pilgrims.
JainismShantinatha Basadi, Jinanathapura
Jinanathapura · India · temple
A Hoysala-era Digambara Jain basadi consecrated to Lord Shantinatha, the sixteenth Tirthankara, standing in the small Temple village of Jinanathapura near Shravanabelagola in Karnataka's Hassan district. Its outer walls carry a sculptural richness rare among Jain shrines of its age, closer in spirit to the Hindu Temples the same Hoysala court also built.
JainismShatrunjaya Hill Temples, Palitana
Palitana · India · temple
A mountaintop city of some 863 marble Jain Temples above Palitana, the holiest tirth of the Shvetambara tradition, climbed by 3,750 steps and left empty every night for the Tirthankaras.
JainismShikharji (Sammed Shikhar)
Madhuban (Giridih district) · India · pilgrimage site
The holiest tirth of the Jain world: twenty of the twenty-four Tirthankaras attained moksha on Parasnath Hill, and pilgrims of both the Digambara and Svetambara traditions walk its 27 km barefoot yatra of 31 tonks, begun in the small hours from Madhuban.
JainismSri Digambar Jain Lal Mandir
Delhi · India · temple
The oldest Digambara Jain Temple in Delhi, its red sandstone spires rising directly across from the Red Fort in Chandni Chowk, known alike for its Tirthankara shrines and its adjoining bird hospital.
JainismTaranga Jain Temple
Taranga · India · temple
A Śvetāmbara and Digambara Jain pilgrimage complex on Taranga hill in Mehsana district, Gujarat, its principal marble Temple raised in 1161 CE for the Solanki king Kumarapala under the guidance of Acharya Hemachandra and dedicated to the second Tirthankara, Lord Ajitnatha.
JainismTirumalai
Tirumalai · India · temple
A Jain cave and Temple complex on a granite hill northwest of Polur in Tamil Nadu, crowned by a sixteen-foot monolithic image of Tirthankara Neminatha, the tallest Jain sculpture in the state.
JainismUdayagiri and Khandagiri Caves
Bhubaneswar · India · temple
Two adjoining hills on the edge of Bhubaneswar, honeycombed with rock-cut cells that first sheltered Jain ascetics in the first century BCE, with an active Jain Temple still standing at Khandagiri's summit above the older caves of Udayagiri.