Sacred Places
51 places found
HinduismAmarnath Temple
· India · temple
A high Himalayan cave shrine in Jammu and Kashmir where a naturally forming ice lingam is venerated as Lord Śiva, drawing one of India's great seasonal pilgrimages.
HinduismBadami cave temples
· India · temple
A celebrated complex of sixth- to eighth-century Hindu, Jain, and (likely) Buddhist cave temples carved into the red sandstone cliffs of Badami in northern Karnataka, India.
HinduismBadrinath Temple
· India · temple
A major Himalayan Vaiṣṇava pilgrimage temple in Uttarakhand, India — one of the four Char Dham and one of the 108 Divya Desams sacred to the worship of Lord Vishnu.
HinduismBAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London
· United Kingdom · temple
A traditional Swaminarayan Hindu mandir in Neasden, north-west London — celebrated as the first authentically built Hindu stone temple in Britain and in Europe.
HinduismBesakih
· Indonesia · temple
Bali's principal Hindu sanctuary — the 'Mother Temple' (Pura Besakih) — set high on the slopes of the sacred volcano Gunung Agung in eastern Bali, Indonesia.
HinduismBhimashankar Temple
· India · temple
A revered Śiva temple in the forested Sahyadri hills of Maharashtra, India, enshrining one of the twelve Jyotirliṅgas and standing close to the source of the Bhīmā River.
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.
HinduismBoro Kali Bari Temple
· Bangladesh · temple
One of the oldest and most beloved Kālī temples of Mymensingh, Bangladesh, founded around three hundred years ago and known among devotees as Joy Kālī.
HinduismChandranath Temple
· Bangladesh · temple
A celebrated Śākta pīṭha atop Chandranāth Hill in Chittagong, Bangladesh, traditionally identified as the place where the right arm of Devī Satī fell to the earth.
HinduismChau Say Tevoda
· Cambodia · temple
A mid-twelfth-century Hindu sanctuary within the great Angkor complex of Cambodia, dedicated to Śiva and Viṣṇu and admired for its delicate devatā reliefs of female celestials.
HinduismDevasathan
· Thailand · temple
The official Hindu temple of the Thai royal court in Bangkok, founded in 1784 by King Rama I and home to the Court Brahmins descended from a priestly lineage of Rāmeśvaram.
HinduismDhakeshwari Temple
· Bangladesh · temple
The National Temple of Bangladesh, in Old Dhaka, dedicated to the goddess Dhākeśvarī — 'the goddess of Dhaka' — from whom the city itself is held to take its name.