Sacred Places
584 places found
HinduismBaijnath Temple, Himachal Pradesh
Baijnath · India · temple
In the small Himalayan town of Baijnath in Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh, this Nagara-style stone Temple has sheltered Lord Shiva as Vaidyanath, lord of physicians, since its consecration in 1204 CE.
HinduismBaitala Deula
Bhubaneswar · India · temple
Baitala Deula is an eighth-century Shakta shrine in the old quarter of Bhubaneswar, Odisha, where Maa Chamunda is worshipped beneath a triple-spired, barrel-vaulted khakhara tower unlike any other Temple form in the region. Local devotees call it Tini Mundia Deula, the three-headed Temple, for the trio of spires crowning its roof.
HinduismBanashankari Amma Temple
Badami · India · temple
A Shakta shrine in the Tilakaranya forest near Badami, Karnataka, dedicated to Maa Banashankari, an eight-armed form of the Divine Mother worshipped here as Maa Shakambhari, the goddess who nourished a starving people with grain and greens.
ZoroastrianismBandian Complex
Dargaz · Iran · shrine
A Sassanid-era Zoroastrian fire sanctuary excavated near the medieval town of Abiward in Dargaz County, Razavi Khorasan, its stucco-decorated hall carrying some of the most vivid surviving relief carvings of pre-Islamic Iran.
BuddhismBangka Lungshan Temple
Taipei (Wanhua) · Taiwan · temple
Taipei's mother Temple to Guanshiyin, founded by Fujian settlers in 1738 in the old Bangka quarter: a front hall to the bodhisattva of compassion and a rear hall of more than a hundred Taoist and folk gods, whose Guanyin statue survived the 1945 bombing intact.
HinduismBAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London
London · United Kingdom · temple
A traditional Hindu stone mandir in Neasden, north-west London, hand-carved in India and Europe's first mandir built entirely in the traditional way, in stone.
IslamBasharat Mosque
Pedro Abad · Spain · mosque
The principal mosque of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Spain, raised at Pedro Abad in the province of Cordoba and inaugurated in 1982, widely described as the first mosque built from the ground up in Spain in the modern era.
ChristianityBasilica of Our Lady of Good Health
Velankanni · India · church
White Gothic Marian basilica on the Coromandel shore where Our Lady is held to have appeared to two Tamil boys in the 16th century. Called the Lourdes of the East, it draws millions of pilgrims, most of them Hindu and Muslim, to Annai Velankanni, the Mother of Good Health.
ChristianityBasilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Mexico City · Mexico · church
The most visited Marian shrine in the world, built at the foot of Tepeyac hill where Our Lady appeared to St. Juan Diego in 1531; his tilma bearing her image hangs above the altar of the circular basilica of 1976.
JainismBawangaja
Bawangaja · India · temple
A Digambara Jain tirtha in the Satpura hills of Barwani district, Madhya Pradesh, where an 84-foot monolithic image of Lord Rishabhanatha (Adinatha), the first Tirthankara, stands carved directly from the mountain.
IslamBayezid I Mosque
Bursa · Turkey · mosque
The congregational mosque at the heart of the Yildirim Kulliye in Bursa, raised between 1390 and 1395 for the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I, called Yildirim, the Thunderbolt, and now part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Bursa and Cumalikizik.
HinduismBelur Math
Howrah · India · monastery
Headquarters of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission on the Hooghly, founded by Swami Vivekananda, where the relics of Sri Ramakrishna rest in a great Temple that deliberately joins Temple, mosque and church in one design.