Sacred Places
584 places found
IslamSultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque)
Istanbul · Türkiye · mosque
The imperial mosque of Sultan Ahmed I, raised between 1609 and 1617 facing Hagia Sophia, its six minarets and 21,043 blue Iznik tiles giving it its second name, the Blue Mosque, and a working congregational mosque to this day.
ShintoSumiyoshi Shrine
Fukuoka · Japan · shrine
Honoured as the oldest of Japan's Sumiyoshi shrines, this Hakata sanctuary enshrines the three Sumiyoshi sea kami and Empress Jingū, its main hall built in 1623 in the ancient Sumiyoshi-zukuri style.
HinduismSun Temple, Modhera
Modhera · India · temple
A Hindu Temple at Modhera in Gujarat consecrated to Lord Surya, the sun god, raised after 1026 CE under Bhima I of the Chaulukya dynasty and ranked among the finest surviving expressions of solar worship in Indian Temple architecture.
ShintoSuwa Shrine
Nagasaki · Japan · shrine
The principal Shinto shrine of Nagasaki, reached by a long stone stairway rising through successive torii on the slopes of Mount Tamazono, celebrated each autumn for the Nagasaki Kunchi festival's fusion of Japanese, Chinese and Dutch dance.
HinduismSwami Bagh Temple
· Bangladesh · temple
A prominent ISKCON-managed Vaishnava Temple and ashram in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from which the annual Jagannath Rath Yatra of the capital begins each year.
HinduismSwaminarayan Akshardham (Gandhinagar)
Gandhinagar · India · temple
A 23-acre spiritual and cultural complex in Gujarat's capital, Swaminarayan Akshardham rises in pink Rajasthan sandstone at the heart of Gandhinagar, raised without a single piece of steel or iron in tribute to Bhagwan Swaminarayan.
BaháʼíSydney Bahá'í Temple
Ingleside · Australia · temple
The Bahá'í House of Worship for the Pacific, a nine-sided domed sanctuary set among eucalyptus woodland at Ingleside on Sydney's northern outskirts, open in silence to people of every faith who wish to pray or reflect.
JudaismSynagogue of the Ashkenazi Jews in Baku
Baku · Azerbaijan · synagogue
The principal synagogue of Baku's Ashkenazi community, sharing its purpose-built sanctuary on Dilara Aliyeva Street with the city's Georgian Jewish congregation since the building's dedication in 2003.
Judaismsynagogue Zündorf
· Germany · synagogue
A modest brick synagogue erected in 1882 to serve the Jewish community of Zündorf, a riverside trading village near Cologne, now repurposed as a residence, a quiet witness to a centuries-old Jewish presence in the Rhineland.
JudaismSzolnok Synagogue (Szolnok Gallery)
Szolnok · Hungary · synagogue
A Neolog synagogue raised in 1898 to the design of Lipót Baumhorn in Szolnok, Hungary, its congregation destroyed in the Holocaust; the building now serves as the Szolnok Gallery, one of the region's principal exhibition spaces for the visual arts.
ShintoTado Taisha
Kuwana · Japan · shrine
A Shinto shrine at the foot of Mount Tado in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, formerly ranked kokuhei taisha under Japan's state shrine system and known nationwide for the Tado Matsuri, in which young riders send horses leaping a two-metre wall.
ShintoTagata Shrine
Komaki · Japan · shrine
A Shinto shrine in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, dedicated to the harvest kami Mitoshi no Kami and to Tamahime no Mikoto, known for the Honensai each March, when a portable shrine carries a great carved wooden effigy in procession to pray for a bountiful harvest and for fertility in all living things.