Sacred Places
584 places found
HinduismMuktagachha Shiva Temple
· Bangladesh · temple
A twin Hindu Temple beside the Rajbari of Muktagachha in Mymensingh District, Bangladesh, raised in 1820 and devoted jointly to Shiva and the goddess Maa Kali.
HinduismMukteshvara Temple
Bhubaneswar · India · temple
A tenth century jewel of Kalinga Temple architecture in Bhubaneswar, the Mukteshvara Temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva as Mukteshvara, Lord of Liberation, and is celebrated above all for the ornately carved freestanding archway, the torana, that greets pilgrims at its gate.
HinduismMuktinath
· Nepal · temple
An ancient Vishnu Temple set in the Muktinath valley of Mustang, Nepal, revered by both Hindus and Buddhists as one of the world's highest shrines, standing at roughly 3,800 meters near the Thorong La pass.
HinduismMỹ Sơn Sanctuary
Duy Xuyen · Vietnam · temple
A valley of more than seventy ruined brick Temples raised between the fourth and thirteenth centuries by the Hindu kings of Champa, the foremost Shaiva sanctuary of a civilisation now gone, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999.
SikhismNada Sahib
Panchkula · India · gurdwara
Beside the Ghaggar-Hakra river in the Sivalik hills of Panchkula, Gurdwara Nada Sahib marks the ground where Guru Gobind Singh Ji rested while travelling from Paonta Sahib to Anandpur Sahib after the Battle of Bhangani.
HinduismNageshvara Jyotirlinga
· India · temple
A Hindu shrine at Dwarka on the coast of Gujarat in western India, dedicated to Shiva and counted among the twelve Jyotirlinga sites named in the Shiva Purana.
HinduismNageshvara Temple, Begur
Bengaluru · India · temple
In the town of Begur on Bengaluru's southern edge, the Nageshvara Temple is a Western Ganga dynasty shrine to Lord Shiva whose ninth-century stones carry the earliest inscription naming the city that grew up around it.
IslamNakhoda Masjid
Kolkata · India · mosque
At the crossing of Zakaria Street and Rabindra Sarani in Kolkata's Burrabazar quarter, Nakhoda Masjid is the principal mosque of the city, a Hanafi Sunni congregation whose prayer hall holds some 10,000 worshippers beneath twin 151-foot minarets.
JainismNakoda Parshwanath Jain Temple
Nakoda · India · temple
In the Thar desert country of Barmer district, Nakodaji is one of western India's most beloved Shvetambara Jain pilgrimage Temples, its sanctum holding a dark stone image of Lord Parshvanatha watched over by Lord Nakoda Bhairav, the tirtha's guardian protector.
ChristianityNaples Cathedral
Naples · Italy · church
The Roman Catholic cathedral of Naples in Campania, Italy, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary and known across the city as the Cathedral of Saint Januarius, whose relics it holds and whose blood is said to liquefy three times each year.
HinduismNavlakha Temple, Ghumli
Ghumli · India · temple
A twelfth-century Sun Temple standing in ruin at Ghumli on Gujarat's Saurashtra peninsula, raised in the Maru-Gurjara style by the Jethwa dynasty and counted among the oldest Surya shrines in the state.
HinduismNegheriting Shiva Doul
Dergaon · India · temple
A Panchayatana Shiva Temple crowning a hillock at Dergaon in Assam's Golaghat district, rebuilt in brick by the Ahom crown in 1765 and still a living centre of worship today.