Sacred Places
584 places found
IndigenousSecond Temple
· Kingdom of Judah · sacred natural site
The sanctuary that succeeded Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, built around 516 BCE and later expanded by Herod the Great, central to Jewish worship until its destruction in 70 CE.
IslamSelimiye Mosque, Edirne
Edirne · Türkiye · mosque
Mimar Sinan's crowning masterwork, a mosque of 1568-1575 whose single 31 m dome and four 70.89 m minarets rise over old Ottoman Edirne; a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
ShintoSendai Tōshō-gū
Sendai · Japan · shrine
A Shinto shrine on rising ground above Sendai enshrining Tokugawa Ieyasu as a kami, its five surviving buildings from 1654 among Japan's Important Cultural Properties.
BuddhismSenso-ji
Tokyo · Japan · temple
Tokyo's oldest Temple, founded in 628 around a golden Kannon netted from the Sumida River and never shown since, entered through the great red lantern of the Kaminarimon.
IslamShahi Sunehri Masjid
Delhi · India · mosque
An early eighteenth-century Mughal-era mosque on Chandni Chowk in Old Delhi, its three gilded domes raised in 1721 by the noble Roshan-ud-Daula and still gathering the faithful for daily prayer above the street's ceaseless trade.
HinduismShankaracharya Temple
Srinagar · India · temple
The oldest shrine of worship in the Kashmir Valley, an octagonal stone sanctuary to Lord Shiva crowning a hill above Srinagar, its terrace commanding the full sweep of Dal Lake and the city below.
JainismShankheshwar Parshvanath Jain Temple
Antwerp · Belgium · temple
The Shankheshwar Parshvanath Jain Temple rises in white marble from the streets of Wilrijk, the only Jain Temple on the European continent and the largest anywhere outside India. Consecrated to Lord Parshvanath, the twenty-third Tirthankara, its carved stone was shaped in India and carried across the sea to Belgium.
JainismShankheshwar Parshvanath Jain Temple
Shankheshwar · India · temple
A foremost Svetambara Jain tirth in Shankheshwar, Patan district, Gujarat, dedicated to Bhagwan Parshvanath, the twenty-third Tirthankara, held second only to Shatrunjaya in importance to Svetambara pilgrims.
JainismShantinatha Basadi, Jinanathapura
Jinanathapura · India · temple
A Hoysala-era Digambara Jain basadi consecrated to Lord Shantinatha, the sixteenth Tirthankara, standing in the small Temple village of Jinanathapura near Shravanabelagola in Karnataka's Hassan district. Its outer walls carry a sculptural richness rare among Jain shrines of its age, closer in spirit to the Hindu Temples the same Hoysala court also built.
BuddhismShanti Stupa
Leh · India · stupa
A white-domed peace pagoda crowning a hilltop above Leh, built in 1991 by a Japanese Buddhist monk to mark twenty-five centuries of the Buddha's teaching, enshrining relics of the Buddha at its base.
JainismShatrunjaya Hill Temples, Palitana
Palitana · India · temple
A mountaintop city of some 863 marble Jain Temples above Palitana, the holiest tirth of the Shvetambara tradition, climbed by 3,750 steps and left empty every night for the Tirthankaras.
IslamSheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates · mosque
The great mosque of the United Arab Emirates, raised by founding father Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan to mirror the moderation of Islam, and deliberately open to guests of every faith. Its 82 white marble domes shelter the world's largest hand-knotted carpet.