Sacred Places
584 places found
HinduismShri Nageshwar Jyotirlinga
near Dwarka (Devbhumi Dwarka district) · India · temple
One of the Twelve Jyotirlingas, the stotra's Nagesham Darukavane: a swayambhu linga of Dwarka Shila stone worshipped in an underground sanctum on the Dwarka coast, beneath a 25 metre seated Lord Shiva.
HinduismShri Omkareshwar Jyotirlinga
Omkareshwar (Khandwa district) · India · temple
One of the Twelve Jyotirlingas of Lord Shiva, standing on Mandhata island in the Narmada, whose natural form traces the syllable Om. Its twin shrine Mamleshwar faces it from the south bank, and each night a chaupar board is laid before the Lord after the Shayan Aarti.
HinduismShri Pashupatinath Temple
Kathmandu · Nepal · temple
Nepal's holiest Shiva Temple, where Lord Shiva as Pashupatinath, Lord of All Beings, is worshipped in a four-faced mukhalinga beside the sacred Bagmati, within a UNESCO World Heritage precinct of golden pagoda roofs, riverside ghats and forest shrines.
HinduismShri Sai Baba Temple, Shirdi
· · temple
A widely visited Hindu Temple complex in Shirdi, Ahilyanagar district, Maharashtra, built around the samadhi shrine of the nineteenth century saint Sai Baba, drawing millions of devotees from India and abroad each year.
HinduismShri Shanaishwar Devasthan, Shani Shingnapur
Shingnapur (Ahilyanagar district) · India · temple
The swayambhu black slab of Lord Shanidev stands on an open platform with no roof and no walls, in a village whose houses traditionally have no doors, held under his protection.
HinduismShri Trimbakeshwar Jyotirlinga
Trimbak (Nashik district) · India · temple
One of the Twelve Jyotirlingas, where the linga holds three faces worshipped as Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu, and Lord Shiva, at the foot of Brahmagiri hill where the Godavari river is born. Pilgrims bathe at Kushavarta, the tank honoured as Tirtharaj, before darshan in the black basalt Temple raised by the Peshwa.
HinduismShri Virupaksha Temple, Hampi
Hampi (Vijayanagara district) · India · temple
The living heart of ruined Vijayanagara: worship of Lord Shiva as Virupaksha, Lord of Maa Pampa, has continued here unbroken since about the 7th century, beneath a 50 metre gopuram that rises over the old Hampi Bazaar.
BuddhismShwedagon Pagoda
Yangon · Myanmar (Burma) · pagoda
Myanmar's most sacred Buddhist pagoda: a 99 m gilded zedi on Singuttara Hill above Yangon, believed to enshrine relics of four Buddhas, including eight hairs from the head of Gautama Buddha.
HinduismSiddhivinayak Temple, Mumbai
· India · temple
Shri Siddhivinayak Ganapati Mandir, nestled in Mumbai's Prabhadevi quarter, is a beloved Ganesha Temple that draws devotees from across Maharashtra and far beyond, one of the city's most deeply cherished places of Hindu worship.
IslamSidi Bashir Mosque
Ahmedabad · India · mosque
The surviving gateway and twin minarets of a fifteenth-century Sufi mosque in Ahmedabad, known across Gujarat as Jhulta Minar, the Shaking Minarets, for a swaying resonance between the two towers that has never been fully explained.
IslamSidi Saiyyed Mosque
Ahmedabad · India · mosque
A Sunni mosque raised in Ahmedabad in the final year of the Gujarat Sultanate, 980 AH (1572 to 1573 CE), cherished above all for its ten carved stone jali screens, the finest lattice work to survive from medieval Gujarat.
HinduismSita Samahit Sthal
Sitamarhi · India · temple
A Hindu pilgrimage shrine in Bhadohi district, Uttar Pradesh, honoured as the ground where Maa Sita returned into the earth at the close of the Ramayana, now marked by a towering statue of Lord Hanuman.