Sacred Places
263 places found
HinduismJanaki Mandir, Janakpurdham
Janakpur · Nepal · temple
The white marble palace-temple of Maa Sita in Janakpurdham, ancient Mithila's capital and Her traditional birthplace, completed in 1910 and honoured as the largest Temple in Nepal.
HinduismJavari Temple, Khajuraho
Khajuraho · India · temple
A slender eleventh century shrine to Lord Vishnu in Khajuraho's quieter Eastern Group, its soaring curvilinear tower and serpent headed Makara Torana entrance arch counted among the most finely proportioned in the whole Chandela Temple city.
HinduismJoy Kali Temple
Dhaka · Bangladesh · temple
A twin shrined Temple in Old Dhaka where a terracotta crowned tower to Lord Shiva rises beside the five spired sanctum of Maa Kali, on a lane between Thatari Bazar and Wari that has carried the Temple's own name for generations.
HinduismKailasanathar Temple, Kanchipuram
Kanchipuram · India · temple
Rising in the western quarter of Kanchipuram, the Kailasanathar Temple is among the oldest surviving stone Temples in South India, raised for Lord Shiva by the Pallava dynasty around 700 CE. Its sandstone tower and sculpted courtyard shrines mark the moment Dravidian Temple building first stood free of rock and timber.
HinduismKailasa Temple, Ellora
Ellora (Verul) · India · temple
The world's largest monolithic rock-cut Temple, carved top-down from a single basalt cliff in the 8th century as Mount Kailash, the abode of Lord Shiva, brought to earth at Ellora.
HinduismKal Bhairab Temple, Brahmanbaria
Brahmanbaria · Bangladesh · temple
Beside the Titas river in Brahmanbaria, eastern Bangladesh, the Kal Bhairab Temple has drawn Shaivite pilgrims for close to two centuries to a towering image of Lord Bhairava, a fierce form of Lord Shiva. Maa Kali and Devi Parvati are honoured beside him within the same sanctum.
HinduismKal Bhairav Temple, Ujjain
Ujjain · India · temple
On the bank of the Kshipra river in Ujjain, the Kal Bhairav Temple honours Lord Shiva in his fierce form as Kal Bhairav, guardian deity of one of Hinduism's seven sacred cities. Liquor offered in a silver saucer before the stone image is said to vanish without a trace, a rite that has drawn devotees for generations.
HinduismKaliya jue Temple
· Bangladesh · temple
Kaliya Jue Mandir in Dinajpur, Bangladesh, is a Hindu Temple dedicated to Bhagwan Krishna, set in the historic precincts west of the Dinajpur Rajbari.
HinduismKalkaji Mandir
New Delhi · India · temple
In the Kalkaji quarter of South Delhi, opposite Nehru Place, the Kalkaji Mandir enshrines Maa Kali in a form devotees hold to be self manifested, present in the sanctum since before living memory. The surrounding neighbourhood itself takes its name from the Temple.
HinduismKalpeshwar
Urgam · India · temple
Kalpeshwar is a small Himalayan stone shrine to Lord Shiva set into a cave passage in the Urgam valley of Uttarakhand, revered as the fifth and only year-round Panch Kedar Temple.
HinduismKandariya Mahadeva Temple
Khajuraho (Chhatarpur district) · India · temple
The largest and tallest of the Khajuraho Temples, a Chandela sanctuary of about 1030 CE where Lord Shiva dwells as a marble linga in the cave-like sanctum of a 31 metre mountain of carved sandstone.
HinduismKashi Vishwanath Temple
· India · temple
A revered Hindu shrine on Vishwanath Gali in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, honouring Shiva as one of the twelve Jyotirlingas of the Shaiva tradition.