Sacred Places
584 places found
HinduismArulmigu Kapaleeswarar Temple, Mylapore
Chennai (Mylapore) · India · temple
The great Shiva Temple at the heart of Mylapore, Chennai, where tradition holds Maa Uma Worshipped the Lord as a peahen beneath the punnai tree, giving the town its name. Lord Kapaleeswarar and Maa Karpagambal, the Goddess Of the wish-yielding tree, preside over the city's most beloved festival calendar.
HinduismArulmigu Subramaniya Swamy Temple, Tiruttani
Tiruttani (Tiruvallur district) · India · temple
The fifth of the Arupadai Veedu, the six abodes of Lord Murugan, crowning Thanigai hill above Tiruttani. Here, tradition holds, the Lord's anger cooled after the victory over Surapadman, and 365 steps, one for each day of the year, climb to His sanctum.
HinduismArulmigu Varadharaja Perumal Temple, Kanchipuram
Kanchipuram · India · temple
The great Vishnu Temple of Kanchipuram, one of the 108 Divya Desams, where Lord Varadharaja reigns from the Hastigiri rock and the original fig-wood Athi Varadar rises from the Temple tank once every forty years.
HinduismArunachaleswarar Temple (Annamalaiyar)
Tiruvannamalai · India · temple
The Agni kshetra of the five Pancha Bhoota Sthalams, where Lord Shiva Is Worshipped as fire and as the hill Arunachala itself, ringed by the 14 km girivalam path walked by lakhs every full moon.
ZoroastrianismAspakhu Fire Temple
Aspakhu · Iran · shrine
A Sasanian-era Zoroastrian fire Temple crowning a hilltop above the village of Aspakhu in Iran's North Khorasan province, its stone dome and vaulted eastern portal counted among the oldest standing structures in the region.
HinduismAstasambhu Siva Temples
Bhubaneswar · India · temple
Eight nearly identical stone shrines to Lord Shiva, raised around the tenth century CE within the Uttareswar Temple precinct beside Bhubaneswar's sacred Bindusagar tank, their very number recalling Sambhu, one of Lord Shiva's most tender names.
IslamAtala Masjid
Jaunpur · India · mosque
A fifteenth-century congregational mosque in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, raised under the Sharqi Sultanate and crowned by a soaring central pishtaq nearly twenty-three metres tall, the Atala Masjid remains an active place of Friday prayer today.
HinduismAvantiswamin Temple
Awantipora · India · temple
A ruined ninth-century Vaishnava sanctuary on the bank of the Jhelum River at Awantipora in Kashmir, raised by King Avantivarman of the Utpala dynasty and dedicated to Lord Vishnu, a separate monument from the nearby Avantishvara Temple he built for Lord Shiva.
HinduismBadami Cave Temples
Badami · India · temple
A complex of sixth to eighth century Hindu, Jain, and probable Buddhist cave Temples carved into the red sandstone cliffs above Agastya lake at Badami in northern Karnataka, among the earliest firmly dated Hindu rock-cut shrines in India.
HinduismBadrinath Temple
· India · temple
A major Himalayan Vaiṣṇava pilgrimage Temple in Uttarakhand, India, one of the four Char Dham and one of the 108 Divya Desams sacred to the worship of Lord Vishnu.
BaháʼíBahá'í House of Worship for the North American Continent
Wilmette · United States · temple
The oldest Bahá'í House of Worship still standing, this nine-sided domed sanctuary rises on the shore of Lake Michigan in Wilmette, Illinois, its lace-carved facade drawing on the sacred symbols of many world religions to welcome worshippers of every background.
BaháʼíBahá'í House of Worship for the South American Continent
Santiago · Chile · temple
Rising above Peñalolén on the eastern edge of Santiago, Chile, the Bahá'í House of Worship for South America gathers nine curving petals of translucent cast glass, pale as alabaster, around a marble-lined sanctuary. Dedicated in 2016, it is the last of the faith's eight continental Temples, and it stands open to people of every tradition.