Sacred Places
584 places found
IslamCharminar
Hyderabad · India · mosque
Rising on the eastern bank of the Musi River in Hyderabad's old city, the Charminar is a 1591 monument of four soaring minarets whose upper floor has held a working mosque for more than four centuries. Built by Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah to mark the founding of his new capital, it stands today as both a civic emblem of Telangana and a living place of Friday prayer.
HinduismChaturbhuj Temple, Khajuraho
Khajuraho · India · temple
In the village of Jatakari within Khajuraho's Southern Group, the Chaturbhuj Temple holds a commanding four-armed image of Lord Vishnu and stands as the only Temple in the entire Khajuraho complex built without a single erotic sculpture.
HinduismChaturbhuj Temple, Orchha
Orchha · India · temple
Rising 105 metres above the fortress town of Orchha in Madhya Pradesh, the Chaturbhuj Temple was raised by the Bundela kings to enshrine Lord Rama, though its sanctum came instead to hold Radha and Lord Krishna after the queen's own image of Rama refused to leave her palace.
BuddhismChaukhandi Stupa
Sarnath · India · stupa
Rising beside the road into Sarnath, the Chaukhandi Stupa is a terraced brick mound raised in the Gupta era, said to mark the ground where the newly awakened Buddha found again the five ascetics who had once turned away from him. A Mughal octagonal tower, added in 1588, crowns its summit.
HinduismChausath Yogini Temple, Hirapur
Hirapur · India · temple
A small, roofless circular shrine of sandstone in the village of Hirapur near Bhubaneswar, Odisha, where fifty-six of an original sixty-four dark stone Yogini images still keep their place in wall niches around Maa Kali at the centre, among the oldest surviving Temples of the tantric Yogini cult in India.
HinduismChausath Yogini Temple, Khajuraho
Khajuraho · India · temple
The oldest surviving structure at Khajuraho, this hypaethral shrine of rough granite dates to the late ninth century and once held sixty-four cells sacred to the Yoginis, with a larger sanctum at its centre believed to have honoured Maa Durga.
HinduismChausath Yogini Temple, Mitaoli
Mitaoli · India · temple
Crowning a lone hill above the Chambal plains in Mitaoli, Morena district, this eleventh-century circular Temple was built for the sixty-four Yoginis and stands today as one of India's best-preserved Yogini shrines, its drum-shaped outer wall long said to have inspired the design of India's Parliament building.
HinduismChau Say Tevoda
Siem Reap · Cambodia · temple
A twelfth-century Hindu sanctuary within Cambodia's Angkor Archaeological Park, dedicated to Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu and raised in the reign of King Suryavarman II. Its stone walls still carry the graceful forms of carved devata, celestial guardians watching over the sanctuary from their niches.
TaoismChe Kung Miu
Sha Tin · People's Republic of China · temple
A spacious Taoist Temple in Tai Wai, Sha Tin, dedicated to Che Kung, a Southern Song dynasty general revered across Hong Kong as a guardian against plague and misfortune, busiest each Lunar New Year when devotees turn its bronze pinwheels for a change of fortune.
HinduismChennakesava Temple, Belur
Belur · India · temple
A Hoysala-era Temple at Belur in Karnataka, consecrated to Lord Vishnu as Chennakeshava and raised in 1117 CE, its dark soapstone walls carved with a density of sculpture recognised since 2023 as part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
IslamCheraman Juma Masjid
Kodungallur · India · mosque
A mosque of deep antiquity at Methala in Kodungallur, Kerala, revered by tradition as the first mosque raised on Indian soil, and today a living place of Friday congregation newly restored to its original Kerala-style form under the Muziris Heritage Project.
BuddhismChin Swee Caves Temple
Genting Highlands · Malaysia · temple
A Chinese Buddhist Temple carved into a granite hillside in the Genting Highlands of Pahang, Malaysia, built over eighteen years by the resort's founder in devotion to Patriarch Qingshui, a Song-dynasty monk revered across the Hokkien diaspora as a miracle-working deity.