Sacred Places
584 places found
JudaismOstia Synagogue
Ostia Antica · Italy · synagogue
The oldest synagogue in Europe and the oldest yet found outside the Land of Israel, a Roman-era house of Jewish prayer standing among the ruins of Ostia, ancient Rome's seaport, dated to the reign of the Emperor Claudius.
HinduismPadmanabhaswamy Temple
· India · temple
A Hindu Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, dedicated to Vishnu as Anantha Padmanabhaswamy and counted among the 108 Divya Desams of the Sri Vaishnava tradition.
BuddhismPagoda of Chengtian Temple
Yinchuan · People's Republic of China · pagoda
An eleven-storey octagonal brick pagoda in Yinchuan, Ningxia, the tallest pagoda in the region, first raised in 1050 CE under the Western Xia dynasty to enshrine relics of the Buddha and rebuilt in its present form in 1820.
BuddhismPagoda of Cishou Temple
Beijing · People's Republic of China · pagoda
A densely tiered Ming dynasty pagoda of 1576 in Beijing's Haidian district, its carved brick and stone Sumeru base among the most elaborate surviving on any pagoda of the period, now standing alone in a public park since the Temple that surrounded it was destroyed.
IslamPanbari Mosque
Panbari · India · mosque
The earliest surviving mosque in Assam, a three-domed Bengal Sultanate structure of the 15th or 16th century standing near Rangamati hill, some 25 kilometres east of Dhubri town.
JainismPanchakuta Basadi, Kambadahalli
Kambadahalli · India · temple
A cluster of five interconnected Jain shrines in the village of Kambadahalli in Karnataka, raised under the Western Ganga dynasty and counted among the finest surviving examples of Dravidian Temple architecture in the Jain tradition.
BuddhismParinirvana Temple
Kushinagar · India · stupa
The shrine at Kushinagar marking the ground where the Buddha died and entered parinirvana, sheltering a six-metre gilded reclining Buddha carved in the fifth century.
JainismParshvanatha Temple
Khajuraho · India · temple
The largest of Khajuraho's Jain Temples, raised in the tenth century for a Hindu patron and consecrated to Lord Parshvanatha in 1860, its sandstone walls carrying both Jain and Vaishnavaite sculpture side by side.
HinduismParsurameswara Temple
Bhubaneswar · India · temple
Raised around 650 CE in the heart of Bhubaneswar, Parsurameswara Temple is widely regarded as the best-preserved early Odia Temple to survive from the Shailodbhava era, its sandstone tower rising over one of the oldest sacred sites in the city.
HinduismParthasarathy Temple
Chennai · India · temple
A Vaishnavite sanctuary in the Triplicane quarter of Chennai consecrated to Lord Krishna in his form as Parthasarathy, charioteer of Arjuna, and counted among the 108 Divya Desams sung by the Alvar saints.
BuddhismPemayangtse Monastery
Pelling · India · monastery
Perched on a ridge in western Sikkim with views toward Khangchendzonga, Pemayangtse is among the oldest and most revered Nyingma monasteries in the Himalaya, its name meaning Perfect Sublime Lotus.
BuddhismPhensang Monastery
Phodong · India · monastery
A Nyingma Buddhist monastery on a forested ridge above Phodong in North Sikkim, founded in 1721 and home today to one of the largest gatherings of monks of any monastery in the state.