Sacred Places
584 places found
TaoismTai Wong Temple, Cheung Shing Street
· People's Republic of China · temple
A historic Chinese folk Temple on Cheung Shing Street in Yuen Long Kau Hui, Hong Kong, dedicated to the Tai Wong, the protective city god of the old market district.
IslamTaj-ul-Masajid
Bhopal · India · mosque
Rising on a pink sandstone plinth in the old city of Bhopal, Taj-ul-Masajid, the Crown of Mosques, is the largest mosque in India, its twin eighteen-storey minarets and three white marble domes raised at the initiative of the Begums of Bhopal.
SikhismTakht Sachkhand Sri Hazur Sahib
Nanded · India · gurdwara
One of the five Takhts of Sikhi, raised on the bank of the Godavari at Nanded, where Guru Gobind Singh Ji, the tenth Guru, passed into Joti Jot in 1708 and conferred eternal Guruship upon the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji.
SikhismTakht Sri Damdama Sahib
Talwandi Sabo · India · gurdwara
One of the Five Takhts of Sikhi, at Talwandi Sabo near Bathinda, where Guru Gobind Singh Ji dictated the final, authoritative text of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji in 1705 to 1706.
SikhismTakht Sri Patna Sahib
Patna · India · gurdwara
One of the Five Takhts of Sikhi, raised over the room in Patna City where Guru Gobind Singh Ji, the tenth Guru, was born in 1666.
ZoroastrianismTappeh Mill
· Iran · shrine
An ancient Zoroastrian atashkade (fire Temple) crowning a broad hilltop in Rey, Iran, this Sasanian-era sanctuary bears the name of King Bahram V and endures as a protected national heritage site.
JainismTaranga Jain Temple
Taranga · India · temple
A Śvetāmbara and Digambara Jain pilgrimage complex on Taranga hill in Mehsana district, Gujarat, its principal marble Temple raised in 1161 CE for the Solanki king Kumarapala under the guidance of Acharya Hemachandra and dedicated to the second Tirthankara, Lord Ajitnatha.
BuddhismTashiding Monastery
Tashiding · India · monastery
High on a heart-shaped ridge above the meeting of the Rathong Chu and Rangeet rivers, Tashiding Monastery is revered across Sikkim as its spiritual heart, a Nyingma seat founded in the seventeenth century in the shadow of Kanchenjunga. Pilgrims climb past a long line of carved mani stones to reach the Guru Lhakhang, the inner Temple of Guru Rinpoche himself.
BuddhismTashi Gomang Shedra Buddhist Monastery
· India · monastery
A Tibetan Buddhist sanctuary on the outskirts of Siliguri in West Bengal, India, established by monks in the tradition of the Dalai Lama and home to a soaring hundred-foot stupa attributed to the venerated Lama Kalu Rinpoche.
HinduismTeli ka Temple
Gwalior · India · temple
Rising some twenty-four metres above the ramparts of Gwalior Fort on the highest ground within the old citadel, the Teli ka Temple is crowned by a barrel-vaulted roof unlike any other Temple tower of its age in North India. Within its rectangular sanctum, unusual for a shrine of this era, a Shiva linga stands watch, though the Temple's carvings and inscriptions once also honoured Lord Vishnu and Maa Durga.
IslamTemple Mount
· Palestine · mosque
The ancient hill at the heart of Jerusalem's Old City, holiest place in Judaism and home to the Islamic al-Aqsa compound including the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque.
BuddhismTemple of the Sacred Tooth Relic
Kandy · Sri Lanka · temple
The relic house of the last Kandyan royal palace, where the left canine tooth of the Buddha rests within seven golden caskets, honoured three times daily in the thewava to the beat of hewisi drums.