Sacred Places
584 places found
JainismShikharji (Sammed Shikhar)
Madhuban (Giridih district) · India · pilgrimage site
The holiest tirth of the Jain world: twenty of the twenty-four Tirthankaras attained moksha on Parasnath Hill, and pilgrims of both the Digambara and Svetambara traditions walk its 27 km barefoot yatra of 31 tonks, begun in the small hours from Madhuban.
ShintoShiogama Shrine
Shiogama · Japan · shrine
A Shinto shrine on a wooded hill above the port of Shiogama in Miyagi Prefecture, attested since at least the ninth century and revered across northern Japan as guardian of seafarers and of pregnant women. It serves as head shrine to several hundred affiliated Shiogama shrines scattered across the country.
HinduismShore Temple, Mahabalipuram
Mahabalipuram (Chengalpattu district) · India · temple
An early 8th-century Pallava granite Temple on the Bay of Bengal at Mahabalipuram: two shrines of Lord Shiva flanking a reclining Lord Vishnu carved on the bedrock, the last of the mariners' Seven Pagodas, protected within the UNESCO Group of Monuments.
HinduismShree Dwarkadhish Temple (Jagat Mandir)
Dwarka · India · temple
The western seat of the Char Dham, where Lord Krishna Is Worshipped as Dwarkadhish, King Of Dwarka, beneath a 52-yard flag changed five times every day.
HinduismShree Shree Siddheswari Kalimandir
Dhaka · Bangladesh · temple
A historic Kali Temple in the heart of Dhaka, revered as the shrine of Maa Siddheswari, whose presence has lent her name to the surrounding neighbourhood for centuries. It remains among the oldest functioning Hindu Temples in the city and a gathering place for Bengali Shakta devotion in Bangladesh.
HinduismShri Banke Bihari Mandir
Vrindavan · India · temple
The Temple of Shri Banke Bihari, the single dark form in which Shyama and Shyam merged Before Swami Haridas at Nidhivan, where the curtain is drawn and parted every few minutes because tradition holds no one may hold His gaze too long.
HinduismShri Bhimashankar Jyotirlinga
Bhimashankar (Pune district) · India · temple
One of the Twelve Jyotirlingas, hidden in the Sahyadri cloud forest at the source of the Bhima river, where tradition says Lord Shiva Took the Bhima form to destroy the demon Tripurasura.
HinduismShri Govind Dev Ji Temple
Jaipur · India · temple
A Vaishnava shrine within Jaipur's City Palace complex, home to Govind Dev Ji, one of the most revered forms of Lord Krishna in Rajasthan, worshipped through seven aartis a day.
HinduismShri Grishneshwar Jyotirlinga
Verul (Ellora) · India · temple
The twelfth and last of the Twelve Jyotirlingas, at Verul beside the Ellora caves: a red-stone Temple raised again by Maloji Bhosale and the Holkar queens, where devotees touch the Jyotirlinga with bare hands.
HinduismShri Khatu Shyam Ji Temple
Khatu (Sikar district) · India · temple
In Khatu town of Rajasthan's Sikar district, the shish of Barbarika is worshipped as Baba Shyam, whom Sri Krishna blessed to be the Haare ka Sahara, the refuge of the defeated, in Kaliyuga. Lakhs arrive on every Shukla Ekadashi, and the Phalguna Lakkhi Mela brings one of north India's greatest walking pilgrimages to his darbar.
HinduismShri Lingaraja Temple
Bhubaneswar · India · temple
The crown of Ekamra Kshetra, where a 55 metre Kalinga deul rises over some 150 shrines and the svayambhu linga is worshipped as Harihara, Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu in one stone, offered bel leaves and tulasi together.
HinduismShrimant Dagadusheth Halwai Ganapati Temple
Pune · India · temple
Pune's beloved Navsacha Ganpati, installed in 1893 by the sweet-maker Dagadusheth Halwai as one of the first murtis of Lokmanya Tilak's public Ganeshotsav, worshipped today in an open hall where Bappa is visible from the street itself.