Sacred Places
263 places found
HinduismBudhanilkantha Temple
Budhanilkantha · Nepal · temple
Beneath Shivapuri Hill at the northern edge of the Kathmandu Valley, Budhanilkantha Temple shelters an open-air image of Lord Vishnu reclining in a stone water tank, the largest stone carving in Nepal. Hindu and Buddhist pilgrims alike gather at its edge, the Buddhist community venerating the same face as a form of Avalokiteshvara.
HinduismChandranath Temple
· Bangladesh · temple
A celebrated Śākta pīṭha atop Chandranāth Hill in Chittagong, Bangladesh, traditionally identified as the place where the right arm of Devī Satī fell to the earth.
HinduismChangu Narayan Temple
Changunarayan · Nepal · temple
A Licchavi-era hilltop sanctuary in Bhaktapur District dedicated to Lord Vishnu, home to the oldest dated inscription found in Nepal (464 CE) and a UNESCO World Heritage courtyard of medieval stone and wood carving.
HinduismChaturbhuj Temple, Khajuraho
Khajuraho · India · temple
In the village of Jatakari within Khajuraho's Southern Group, the Chaturbhuj Temple holds a commanding four-armed image of Lord Vishnu and stands as the only Temple in the entire Khajuraho complex built without a single erotic sculpture.
HinduismChaturbhuj Temple, Orchha
Orchha · India · temple
Rising 105 metres above the fortress town of Orchha in Madhya Pradesh, the Chaturbhuj Temple was raised by the Bundela kings to enshrine Lord Rama, though its sanctum came instead to hold Radha and Lord Krishna after the queen's own image of Rama refused to leave her palace.
HinduismChausath Yogini Temple, Hirapur
Hirapur · India · temple
A small, roofless circular shrine of sandstone in the village of Hirapur near Bhubaneswar, Odisha, where fifty-six of an original sixty-four dark stone Yogini images still keep their place in wall niches around Maa Kali at the centre, among the oldest surviving Temples of the tantric Yogini cult in India.
HinduismChausath Yogini Temple, Khajuraho
Khajuraho · India · temple
The oldest surviving structure at Khajuraho, this hypaethral shrine of rough granite dates to the late ninth century and once held sixty-four cells sacred to the Yoginis, with a larger sanctum at its centre believed to have honoured Maa Durga.
HinduismChausath Yogini Temple, Mitaoli
Mitaoli · India · temple
Crowning a lone hill above the Chambal plains in Mitaoli, Morena district, this eleventh-century circular Temple was built for the sixty-four Yoginis and stands today as one of India's best-preserved Yogini shrines, its drum-shaped outer wall long said to have inspired the design of India's Parliament building.
HinduismChau Say Tevoda
Siem Reap · Cambodia · temple
A twelfth-century Hindu sanctuary within Cambodia's Angkor Archaeological Park, dedicated to Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu and raised in the reign of King Suryavarman II. Its stone walls still carry the graceful forms of carved devata, celestial guardians watching over the sanctuary from their niches.
HinduismChennakesava Temple, Belur
Belur · India · temple
A Hoysala-era Temple at Belur in Karnataka, consecrated to Lord Vishnu as Chennakeshava and raised in 1117 CE, its dark soapstone walls carved with a density of sculpture recognised since 2023 as part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
HinduismChitragupta Temple
Khajuraho · India · temple
Rising in Khajuraho's Western Group of Temples in Madhya Pradesh, the eleventh-century Chitragupta Temple is the only shrine in the town consecrated to Lord Surya, its sanctum sheltering a rare image of the sun god standing in his chariot of seven horses.
HinduismDaksharamam
· India · temple
Draksharamam, also written Daksharamam, is one of the five Pancharama Kshetras sacred to Lord Shiva, revered too as a Trilinga Kshetra and as the twelfth of the Ashtadasha Shakti Peethams. The Temple stands in Draksharamam town in the Konaseema district of Andhra Pradesh, India.