Sacred Places
584 places found
HinduismThanumalayan Temple
· India · temple
A revered Hindu shrine at Suchindram in the Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu, India, where Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma are honoured together in a single linga.
JudaismThe Western Wall (HaKotel)
Jerusalem · Israel · pilgrimage site
The western retaining wall of Herod's Second Temple platform and the closest permitted place of Jewish prayer to the site of the Holy of Holies, open to all, free, every hour of every day.
HinduismThillai Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram
Chidambaram · India · temple
The home of the Ananda Tandava, where Lord Shiva Is Worshipped as Nataraja in the gold-roofed Chit Sabha and as the formless space of the Chidambara Rahasyam, one of the five Pancha Bhoota Sthalams.
HinduismThousand Pillar Temple
Hanamkonda · India · temple
At the foot of Hanamkonda hill in Telangana, the Thousand Pillar Temple gathers Lord Shiva, Lord Vishnu, and Surya Deva under one roof as the Trikutalayam, its star-shaped walls and forest of carved pillars ranked among the finest surviving works of Kakatiya craftsmanship. A monolithic dolerite Nandi still keeps watch before the shrine, polished to a shine that belies the hardness of the stone.
HinduismTiger Cave
Saluvankuppam · India · shrine
On the shore hamlet of Saluvankuppam north of Mahabalipuram, Tiger Cave is a single boulder carved by Pallava sculptors into a ring of roaring yali and tiger heads around a small shrine chamber, its sanctum built for a goddess whose image no longer survives. Palmyra palms and the sound of the Bay of Bengal surround a monument unlike any other rock-cut shrine on the Coromandel Coast.
TaoismTin How Temple
San Francisco · United States · temple
On Waverly Place in the heart of San Francisco's Chinatown, Tin How Temple has kept incense burning before Mazu, the Chinese goddess of the sea, since migrants of the Gold Rush era first raised it around 1852. A narrow stair climbs past a tenement's fire escapes to an altar hung with hundreds of red lantern tags, each one inscribed with a family's name and wish.
IslamTipu Sultan Mosque
Kolkata · India · mosque
A nineteenth-century mosque in central Kolkata built by Prince Ghulam Mohammed, youngest son of Tipu Sultan of Mysore, to keep his father's memory alive in the city where colonial authorities had exiled his family.
JainismTirumalai
Tirumalai · India · temple
A Jain cave and Temple complex on a granite hill northwest of Polur in Tamil Nadu, crowned by a sixteen-foot monolithic image of Tirthankara Neminatha, the tallest Jain sculpture in the state.
HinduismTirumala Venkateswara Temple
· India · temple
Perched amid the sacred Tirumala hills of Andhra Pradesh, this great Vaishnava shrine is consecrated to Lord Venkateswara, a form of Vishnu, and draws millions of devotees who regard it as a divine refuge for the present age.
HinduismTrisrota Shakti Peeth (Maa Bhramari Devi Temple)
Bodaganj · Bangladesh · temple
A modest riverside shrine to Maa Bhramari on the Teesta's bank near Bodaganj in Jalpaiguri district, revered in Bengali Shakta tradition as one of the fifty-one Shakti Peethas where a part of the Goddess fell to earth.
BuddhismTsuklakhang Royal Chapel and Monastery
Gangtok · India · monastery
The Royal Chapel and Monastery of Sikkim's Chogyal kings, standing on Gangtok's Ridge as both a working Buddhist sanctuary and the ceremonial heart of a vanished Himalayan kingdom.
HinduismTulsi Manas Mandir
Varanasi · India · temple
A white-marble Temple in Varanasi raised on the spot where the poet-saint Goswami Tulsidas is said to have composed the Ramcharitmanas, its walls carved with verses and scenes from the epic.