Sacred Places
584 places found
HinduismRajarani Temple
Bhubaneswar · India · temple
An eleventh-century sandstone shrine in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, Rajarani Temple takes its name from the warm red and gold stone of its walls, its tower rising in a clustered, rounded silhouette unlike any other Temple in the city.
HinduismRamanathaswamy Temple
· India · temple
A supremely sacred Śaiva Temple on the island of Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, housing one of the twelve Jyotirliṅgas and revered as a Char Dhām site where, by tradition, Lord Rāma himself worshipped Shiva before crossing to Laṅkā.
HinduismRamappa Temple
Palampet · India · temple
A thirteenth-century Kakatiya Shiva Temple beside Ramappa Lake, inscribed by UNESCO in 2021, and popularly named not for its god but for Ramappa, the sculptor who carved it.
HinduismRam Mandir
· India · temple
Rising at the sacred site venerated across millennia as Ram Janmabhoomi, the birthplace of Lord Rama, this grand Hindu Temple complex in Ayodhya consecrated its presiding deity, Ram Lalla (Infant Rama), in January 2024, drawing hundreds of thousands of pilgrims within its first day alone.
HinduismRamna Kali Temple
Dhaka · Bangladesh · temple
In the Ramna quarter of Dhaka, this Temple to Maa Kali was destroyed in the 1971 Liberation War and rose again five decades later, reconsecrated in December 2021 as both a living shrine and a memorial to those killed there.
BuddhismRelic Stupa of Vaishali
Vaishali · India · stupa
The Relic Stupa of Vaishali is the oldest stupa yet identified through archaeological excavation, raised in brick and clay by the Licchavi people to enshrine a portion of the Buddha's own relics after his parinirvana. Today it rests within a simple domed shelter on the Bihar plain, its waterlogged core still bearing the outline of the shrine the Licchavis built.
JudaismRemuh Synagogue
Kraków · Poland · synagogue
The Remuh Synagogue is the historic Orthodox congregation of Kazimierz, Kraków's old Jewish quarter, built in the sixteenth century and named for Rabbi Moshe Isserles, the great halakhic authority whose grave lies in the adjoining cemetery. Small and still living, it remains one of the longest continuously active places of Jewish prayer in Poland.
BuddhismRinchenpong Monastery
Rinchenpong · India · monastery
Rinchenpong Monastery is an eighteenth-century Tibetan Buddhist monastery set on a ridge above the villages of Rinchenpong and Kaluk in west Sikkim, the third oldest gompa in Sikkim and home to a rare image of the Adi-Buddha in Yab-Yum union. Prayer flags and spinning wheels line its approach, and novice monks still study within its halls.
JainismRishabhdeo
Rishabhdeo (Dhulev) · India · temple
Rishabhdeo, also called Dhulev, is a Jain pilgrimage town in Udaipur district honouring Lord Rishabhanatha, the first tirthankara, whose black stone image draws Digambara and Svetambara pilgrims alike, along with Bhil and Hindu devotees who know him as Kalaji. Fifty-two carved spires rise over the Temple in a symbolic echo of Nandishwar Dweep.
HinduismRudra Mahalaya Temple
Siddhpur · India · temple
The Rudra Mahalaya, or Rudramal, was one of the largest and most richly carved Shiva Temples ever raised in Gujarat, begun by the Chaulukya king Mularaja in 943 CE and consecrated two centuries later by Jayasimha Siddharaja. What survives at Siddhpur today is a dignified fragment: two carved torans, four pillars of the central shrine, and a western range later rebuilt as the town's Jami Masjid.
HinduismRudranath Temple
Gopeshwar · India · temple
A natural rock shrine at about 3,600 m in the Garhwal Himalaya where the face of Lord Shiva is worshipped as Neelkanth Mahadev, the hardest of the Panch Kedar to reach.
HinduismRukmini Devi Temple
Dwarka · India · temple
A shrine to Maa Rukmini, chief queen of Lord Krishna and worshipped as an incarnation of Goddess Lakshmi, its carved tower rising two kilometres from Dwarka's Dwarkadhish Temple on the Gujarat coast.