Sacred Places
584 places found
BuddhismBengal Buddhist Association
Kolkata · India · monastery
Founded in Kolkata in 1892 by Kripasaran Mahasthavir, the Bengal Buddhist Association, known in Bengali as Bauddha Dharmankur Sabha, raised the Dharmankur Vihara at Bow Barracks in 1903 and has worked for over a century to revive the Dharma in eastern India.
IslamBerlin Mosque
Berlin · Germany · mosque
The oldest surviving mosque in Germany, the Wilmersdorf Mosque was raised in Berlin's Wilmersdorf district between 1924 and 1928 in a Neo-Mughal style recalling the Taj Mahal, and remains owned and administered today by the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement.
HinduismBhalka Tirtha
Veraval · India · temple
On the bank of the Hiran river at Prabhas Patan near Veraval on Gujarat's Saurashtra coast, Bhalka Tirtha marks the ground where Lord Krishna withdrew from his earthly life after the hunter Jara's arrow found him, an event devotees honour as a sovereign departure rather than a death.
Hinduism
Bharati Matha Temple
Bhubaneswar · India · monastery
In the old quarter of Bhubaneswar, a short walk along the Ratha road from the great Lingaraja Temple, the three-storeyed Bharati Matha has stood since the eleventh century as both a Shaiva monastery and a shrine to Lord Shiva, its grey sandstone walls sheltering a still-living community under a Mahanta.
HinduismBharat Mata Mandir
Varanasi · India · temple
On the Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith campus in Varanasi stands a Temple built to house not an image of a deity but a nation: its sanctum holds a vast relief map of undivided India carved in marble. Inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi in 1936, it honors Bharat Mata, India personified as a national mother, rather than any single tradition's iconography.
HinduismBhojeshwar Temple
Bhojpur · India · temple
An eleventh-century Shaiva sanctuary in Bhojpur village, Raisen district, Madhya Pradesh, left permanently unfinished by the Paramara king Bhoja, its towering sanctum sheltering one of India's largest monolithic Shiva lingams.
HinduismBhoramdeo Temple
Chouragaon · India · temple
An eleventh-century stone Temple to Lord Shiva at Chouragaon in Chhattisgarh's Kabirdham district, set beside a lake at the foot of the Maikal hills and known for the richly carved figural sculpture covering its exterior walls.
BuddhismBhot Bagan Math
Ghusuri · India · monastery
A brick monastery on the Hooghly riverside at Ghusuri, Howrah, founded in 1776 as the first Tibetan Buddhist religious foundation on the plains of India and still known popularly as Mahakal Math for the Tibetan deity images once installed in its sanctum.
HinduismBhutanatha Group of Temples
Badami · India · temple
A cluster of Hindu shrines on the shore of Agastya Tirtha in Badami, Karnataka, raised in two distinct building phases between the early 8th and 12th centuries and dedicated to Lord Shiva in his form as Bhutanatha, lord of spirits and souls.
HinduismBishyanath Temple
· Bangladesh · temple
A notable Śaiva Temple in the Mymensingh district of Bangladesh, dedicated to Lord Śiva and recognised for its distinctive pagoda-like architectural form.
IslamBlue Mosque
Mazar-i-Sharif · Afghanistan · mosque
A turquoise-tiled shrine at the heart of Mazar-i-Sharif, venerated by many Afghans as the tomb of Ali ibn Abi Talib, a claim the wider Muslim world answers differently by placing his grave at Najaf.
ChristianityBolnisi Sioni
· Georgia · church
A late-fifth-century Georgian Orthodox basilica in Bolnisi, the oldest surviving church building in Georgia, famed for its early Georgian-script inscriptions.