Sacred Places
263 places found
HinduismDaksheswara Mahadev Temple
Kankhal · India · temple
A Shaiva pilgrimage Temple in Kankhal, four kilometres from Haridwar, where tradition holds that King Daksha's great yajna once stood and where Maa Sati gave her life rather than see Lord Shiva dishonoured.
HinduismDevasathan
Bangkok · Thailand · temple
Devasathan is the royal Brahmin Temple of the Thai Court in Bangkok, founded in 1784 by King Rama I to house the priestly lineage that still performs the kingdom's most sacred state ceremonies. Within its white walled precinct, Lord Shiva, Lord Ganesha, and Lord Vishnu each keep a shrine of their own, with Lord Brahma honoured at a smaller shrine just inside the gate.
HinduismDevi Jagadambi Temple
Khajuraho · India · temple
A richly carved eleventh-century shrine in Khajuraho's Western Group, sharing the Chandela dynasty's grandest platform with the Kandariya Mahadeva Temple, its sanctum holding an imposing image of Maa Jagadamba, the Universal Mother, worshipped here as Maa Parvati.
HinduismDhamrai Jagannath Roth
Dhamrai · India · temple
A three-tiered wooden temple-chariot kept at Dhamrai in Dhaka District, Bangladesh, at the heart of one of South Asia's oldest Rath Yatra traditions outside Odisha, carrying Lord Jagannath through the town's streets each year with Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra.
HinduismDodda Ganeshana Gudi
Bengaluru · India · temple
A Ganesha shrine on Bull Temple Road in Bengaluru's Basavanagudi neighbourhood, its sanctum holding one of South India's largest monolithic images of Lord Ganesha, a single block of granite standing eighteen feet tall and sixteen feet wide.
HinduismDuladeo Temple
Khajuraho · India · temple
The youngest of Khajuraho's Chandela-era Temples, Duladeo stands in the Southern Group beside the Khodar river, its sanctum holding a linga of Lord Shiva ringed by nine hundred and ninety-nine smaller lingas carved into its own surface.
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HinduismDurga Mandir, Varanasi
Varanasi · India · temple
A red-washed shrine to Maa Durga beside the sacred Durga Kund in Varanasi, raised in the eighteenth century by Rani Bhabani of Natore; devotees hold that Her central image is svayambhu, self-manifested rather than carved by human hand.
HinduismDurgiana Temple
Amritsar · India · temple
Rising from its own sacred lake in Amritsar, Durgiana Mandir is home to Maa Durga, with Maa Lakshmi and Lord Vishnu also enshrined within, its gilded dome and silver doors built in 1921 to echo the neighbouring Golden Temple in devotional homage rather than imitation.
HinduismDwarakadhish Temple
· India · temple
Revered as the Jagat Mandir, this five-storied Vaishnava shrine in Dwarka, Gujarat enshrines Lord Krishna under his title Dwarkadhish, 'Lord of Dvārakā', and stands as one of the four sacred destinations of the Char Dham pilgrimage.
HinduismErawan Shrine
Bangkok · Thailand · shrine
An open-air Bangkok shrine at the Ratchaprasong intersection holding a gilded image of Phra Phrom, the Thai form of Lord Brahma, revered by devotees of many backgrounds as a guardian of protection and prosperity.
HinduismGangaikonda Cholapuram Brihadisvara Temple
Gangaikonda Cholapuram (Ariyalur district) · India · temple
The imperial Temple of Rajendra Chola I, completed in 1035 CE at his new capital and named for his conquest of the Ganga. Its 53 m vimana curves gently where Thanjavur's stands straight, and Lord Shiva as Peruvudaiyar still receives daily worship in a UNESCO Great Living Chola Temple standing alone amid the fields of a vanished city.
HinduismGauri Kund
Gaurikund · India · temple
A Himalayan pilgrimage settlement at 6,502 feet in Uttarakhand's Garhwal hills, Gauri Kund is named for Maa Gauri and serves as the traditional starting point for the trek to Kedarnath Temple, where pilgrims bathe in its natural hot springs before the climb.