Sacred Places
584 places found
BuddhismWat Saket
· Thailand · monastery
The Bangkok Temple known for the Golden Mount, an artificial hill crowned with a gilded chedi enshrining a relic of the Buddha brought from Sri Lanka.
BuddhismWat Somanat Ratcha Wora Wihan
· Thailand · monastery
A second-class royal Thai Buddhist monastery in Bangkok's Nang Loeng quarter, raised by King Mongkut in 1853 as an enduring tribute to Queen Consort Somanass Waddhanawathy, his first wife, who passed away at just seventeen years of age.
BuddhismWat Suan Dok
· Thailand · monastery
A fourteenth-century royal Buddhist Temple in Chiang Mai, founded for the monk Sumana Thera and famed for the relic that, by legend, doubled itself before its enshrinement.
BuddhismWat Suthat
· Thailand · monastery
A first-class royal Buddhist Temple in Bangkok's inner Rattanakosin quarter, famed for its towering Giant Swing and for the longest ordination hall in Thailand.
BuddhismWat Suwan Dararam
· Thailand · monastery
A first-class royal Buddhist Temple in the old capital of Ayutthaya in central Thailand, holding a quiet but enduring place within the kingdom's network of officially recognised royal monasteries.
BuddhismWat Thepthidaram
· Thailand · monastery
A third-grade royal Buddhist Temple in Bangkok founded by King Rama III in honour of his eldest daughter, distinguished by its 52 statues of bhikkhuni and its quiet poetic heritage.
BuddhismWat Traimit
· Thailand · monastery
A Theravada Buddhist Temple in Bangkok's Chinatown best known for the Golden Buddha, a 5.5-tonne solid-gold Sukhothai-era statue hidden for centuries beneath a layer of plaster.
BuddhismWat Yai Chai Mongkhon
· Thailand · monastery
A historic Buddhist Temple in Ayutthaya remembered for the tallest chedi in the city, raised by King Naresuan the Great to mark his victory over Burmese forces in 1592.
BuddhismWat Yansangwararam
· Thailand · monastery
A vast royal Buddhist complex in Chonburi Province, raised in 1976 by the 19th Supreme Patriarch as a centre for samatha and vipassana practice and crowned by a replica of the Mahabodhi Temple.
TaoismWhite Cloud Temple (Baiyun Guan)
Beijing (Xicheng) · China · temple
The ancestral court of the Quanzhen Dragon Gate lineage and headquarters of the Chinese Taoist Association, founded in 741 as Tianchang Guan and grown around the tomb of the patriarch Qiu Chuji, who counselled Genghis Khan.
TaoismWong Tai Sin Temple (Sik Sik Yuen)
Hong Kong (Kowloon) · Hong Kong SAR China · temple
Hong Kong's great seat of kau chim fortune sticks, where the Great Immortal Wong keeps his promise 'what you request is what you get' and Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism share one Temple under Sik Sik Yuen.
ChristianityWurzburg Cathedral
· Germany · church
A Roman Catholic cathedral in Bavaria dedicated to Saint Kilian, ranked among Germany's largest Romanesque churches and a masterpiece of architecture from the Salian era.