Sacred Places
584 places found
BuddhismRumtek Monastery
Gangtok · India · monastery
Rumtek, the Dharma Chakra Centre, is the Karma Kagyu lineage's principal seat in exile, rebuilt in the Sikkim hills by the sixteenth Karmapa after his flight from Tibet, and today the largest monastery in Sikkim.
JainismSaavira Kambada Basadi
Moodabidri · India · temple
A Digambara Jain basadi in Moodabidri, Karnataka, its forest of one thousand individually carved granite pillars framing the sanctum of Lord Chandraprabha, eighth tirthankara, beneath a fifteenth-century manastambha rising fifty feet before the entrance.
HinduismSabarimala Temple complex
· India · temple
Perched atop a forested hill in Kerala's Pathanamthitta district, the Sabarimala Sree Dharma Sastha Temple draws between ten and fifteen million pilgrims annually, ranking among the world's most-visited sacred sites, its deity Lord Ayyappan revered as the divine offspring of Shiva and Mohini.
ChristianitySaint Andrew's Cathedral, St Petersburg
Saint Petersburg · Russia · church
A pastel-pink, five-domed Baroque cathedral on Vasilyevsky Island in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the last Baroque cathedral raised in the city and the spiritual home of Russia's oldest order of chivalry, the Order of Saint Andrew.
ChristianitySaint-Germain Cathedral
Rimouski · Canada · church
The mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rimouski in Quebec, Canada, its neo-Gothic stone nave and tall white spire rising above the Bas-Saint-Laurent shore of the Saint Lawrence estuary.
ChristianitySaint Ignatius Cathedral
· People's Republic of China · church
The Roman Catholic cathedral of the Latin Church Diocese of Shanghai in China, located in the Xujiahui district and dedicated to Saint Ignatius of Loyola.
ChristianitySalzburg Cathedral
Salzburg · Austria · church
The Baroque seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg in Austria, its twin-towered marble facade rising over the Domplatz above the font in which the infant Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was baptised.
ShintoSamukawa Shrine
Samukawa · Japan · shrine
The ichinomiya, or foremost shrine, of the old province of Sagami, honoured across Japan as the nation's sole sanctuary for happō-yoke, protection from misfortune approaching from any of the eight directions.
ChristianitySanctuary of Fatima
Fatima · Portugal · shrine
The great Marian shrine of Portugal, built around the Cova da Iria where Our Lady appeared six times in 1917 to three shepherd children, closing with the Miracle of the Sun before tens of thousands.
ChristianitySanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes
Lourdes · France · shrine
The great Marian shrine of France, built around the grotto where Our Lady appeared to Bernadette Soubirous eighteen times in 1858 and where the spring she uncovered still feeds the taps and the baths.
HinduismSankat Mochan Hanuman Temple
Varanasi · India · temple
A beloved Hanuman Temple on the Assi in Varanasi, founded by the poet-saint Tulsidas at the place of his vision of Lord Hanuman, and rebuilt in its present form around 1900.
HinduismSasthamcotta Sree Dharma Sastha Temple
Sasthamkotta · India · temple
A Temple to Lord Ayyappa, worshipped here as Shri Dharma Sastha, standing on the shore of Sasthamkotta Lake, the largest freshwater lake in Kerala, which embraces the sanctuary on three sides.