Sacred Places
584 places found
BuddhismSnake Temple
Bayan Lepas · Malaysia · temple
A Chinese Buddhist Temple in Bayan Lepas, Penang, built to honour the deified monk healer Chor Soo Kong and known across Southeast Asia for the wild pit vipers that make their home among its incense smoke.
HinduismSomnath Temple
· India · temple
Somnath (सोमनाथ), 'Lord of the Moon', stands on the Saurashtra coastline of Gujarat as the foremost among the twelve jyotirlinga shrines of Lord Shiva, a place of unbroken pilgrimage whose very name speaks of luminosity and divine sovereignty.
BuddhismSongyue Pagoda
Dengfeng · People's Republic of China · pagoda
The oldest surviving brick pagoda in China, raised in 523 CE on Mount Song in Henan and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as part of the Historic Monuments of Dengfeng.
IslamSpanish Mosque
Hyderabad · India · mosque
A Moorish Revival mosque within the historic Paigah Palace in Hyderabad's Begumpet quarter, its tapering spires modelled on the Cathedral-Mosque of Cordoba make it unlike any other mosque on the subcontinent.
HinduismSree Vadakkunnathan Temple
Thrissur · India · temple
An ancient Shiva Temple crowning a hillock at the centre of Thrissur, where the presiding lingam lies wholly hidden beneath centuries of poured ghee, and around whose walls the great Thrissur Pooram is held.
SikhismSri Akal Takht Sahib
Amritsar · India · gurdwara
The supreme temporal seat of the Sikhs, founded in 1606 by Guru Hargobind Sahib facing Sri Harmandir Sahib, where the Jathedar issues hukamnamas and the Guru Granth Sahib Ji rests each night.
JainismSri Digambar Jain Lal Mandir
Delhi · India · temple
The oldest Digambara Jain Temple in Delhi, its red sandstone spires rising directly across from the Red Fort in Chandni Chowk, known alike for its Tirthankara shrines and its adjoining bird hospital.
HinduismSri Kalahasteeswara Swamy Temple, Srikalahasti
Srikalahasti (Tirupati district) · India · temple
The Vayu sthalam of the Pancha Bhoota Sthalams, where Lord Shiva Is Worshipped as air itself: a white swayambhu lingam no hand may touch, a sanctum lamp that flickers without wind, and India's best-known seat of the Rahu-Ketu Sarpa Dosha Nivarana puja, on the Swarnamukhi river near Tirupati.
HinduismSri Mariamman Temple, Singapore
Singapore · Singapore · temple
Singapore's oldest Hindu Temple, a Dravidian shrine to Maa Mariamman rising behind a six tiered gopuram above Chinatown's South Bridge Road.
HinduismSri Ranganathaswamy Temple, Srirangam
Srirangam, Tiruchirappalli · India · temple
The largest functioning Hindu Temple complex in the world: 156 acres of concentric walled enclosures on an island in the Kaveri, where Lord Ranganatha reclines facing south, first among the 108 Divya Desams.
JudaismStatus Quo Ante Synagogue
Târgu Mureș · Romania · synagogue
The great Status Quo Ante synagogue of Târgu Mureș in Transylvania, raised in 1900 for a Hungarian Jewish congregation that chose a middle path between Orthodox and Neolog observance, and still the largest synagogue in the region.
ChristianitySt. Gallen Cathedral
St. Gallen · Switzerland · church
The Baroque cathedral of Saints Gall and Othmar in St. Gallen, built over the grave of the Irish hermit whose cell grew into one of medieval Europe's great Benedictine abbeys, part of a UNESCO World Heritage precinct that also holds the celebrated Abbey Library.