Sacred Places
584 places found
HinduismPrahadisvarar Temple
· India · temple
A monumental Shaivite sanctuary completed around 1010 CE by Chola emperor Rajaraja I on the Cauvery's southern bank in Thanjavur, the Prahadisvarar Temple, also called Brihadisvara, ranks among the grandest expressions of Tamil sacred architecture and is enshrined within UNESCO's Great Living Chola Temples.
HinduismPrambanan Temple
Prambanan · Indonesia · temple
A ninth-century Hindu Temple compound on the Yogyakarta-Central Java border, the largest Hindu Temple compound in Indonesia, dedicated to the Trimurti of Lord Shiva, Lord Brahma, and Lord Vishnu.
HinduismPrem Mandir
Vrindavan · India · temple
A modern white marble Temple on the edge of Vrindavan raised by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj, its carved walls telling the life of Sri Krishna in stone and its evenings turning the whole facade to coloured light.
HinduismPura Agung Besakih
Besakih (Karangasem) · Indonesia · temple
Bali's Mother Temple: a precinct of 23 related puras terraced nearly 1,000 m up Mount Agung, centred on Pura Penataran Agung and its triple lotus throne to Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa.
HinduismPura Goa Lawah
Pesinggahan · Indonesia · temple
A Balinese pura raised across the mouth of a limestone cave alive with nectar bats on the Klungkung coast, counted among the Sad Kahyangan Jagad, the six sanctuaries the Balinese hold to anchor the island's balance.
HinduismPura Luhur Uluwatu
Uluwatu · Indonesia · temple
A Balinese sea Temple perched on a sheer coral cliff at the southwestern tip of the Bukit Peninsula, the only pura segara among Bali's nine directional Temples and a place where the ocean itself is part of the shrine.
HinduismPura Taman Ayun
Mengwi · Indonesia · temple
A royal pura at the heart of Mengwi, its courts held on an island of lawn ringed by a wide moat, built as the ancestral Temple of the Mengwi dynasty and recognised since 2012 as part of a UNESCO World Heritage subak landscape.
HinduismPura Tanah Lot
Beraban (Tabanan) · Indonesia · temple
A pura segara on a wave-carved rock off Bali's southwest coast, honoring Bhatara Baruna, the sea god, reached on foot only at low tide and consecrated, tradition holds, by the sage Dang Hyang Nirartha.
HinduismPura Ulun Danu Bratan
Bedugul · Indonesia · temple
A Balinese Shaivite water Temple resting on the shore of Lake Bratan in Bali's cool central highlands, Pura Ulun Danu Bratan is consecrated to Dewi Danu, goddess of the waters, and stands as spiritual guardian of the irrigation that feeds the rice terraces below.
Hinduism
Puthiyakavu Devi Temple
· India · temple
A Hindu Temple of the Devi at Ponkunnam in the Kottayam district of Kerala, India, long honoured as a resting place for pilgrims on the way to the Ayyappa shrine at Sabarimala.
IslamQolsharif Mosque
Kazan · Russia · mosque
Rising within the walls of the Kazan Kremlin, the Qolsharif Mosque honours Qol Sharif, the sixteenth-century imam and scholar who died defending the city, and its four soaring minarets and turquoise dome make it one of the largest mosques in Russia and in Europe outside Istanbul.
ChristianityRagusa Cathedral
Ragusa · Italy · church
Crowning the upper town of Ragusa in southeastern Sicily, the cathedral of San Giovanni Battista has stood as the seat of the Diocese of Ragusa since 1950, its monumental Baroque facade rising over the piazza that bears the same saint's name.