Sacred Places
26 places found
HinduismKashi Vishwanath Temple
, India
A revered Hindu shrine on Vishwanath Gali in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, honouring Shiva as one of the twelve Jyotirlingas of the Shaiva tradition.
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HinduismKedarnath Temple
, India
A high-Himalayan Shiva shrine on the Garhwal range above the Mandakini river in Uttarakhand, India, counted among the twelve Jyotirlingas and the four Chota Char Dham sites.
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HinduismKonark Sun Temple
, India
A thirteenth-century Hindu temple to Surya on the Odisha coast near Puri, India, shaped as a colossal stone chariot and a UNESCO World Heritage masterpiece of Kalinga architecture.
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HinduismMaruthamalai Marudhachalamurthy Temple
, India
A twelfth-century Tamil hill temple on the Western Ghats above Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India, dedicated to Murugan and venerated as the seventh of his Six Abodes.
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HinduismMeenakshi Temple
, India
A historic Shaiva-Shakta temple on the southern bank of the Vaigai river in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, honouring Meenakshi as a form of Parvati alongside her consort Sundareswarar.
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HinduismNageshvara Jyotirlinga
, India
A Hindu shrine at Dwarka on the coast of Gujarat in western India, dedicated to Shiva and counted among the twelve Jyotirlinga sites named in the Shiva Purana.
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HinduismOmkareshwar Temple
, India
A Hindu temple on the Narmada river island of Mandhata in Khandwa district, Madhya Pradesh, India, dedicated to Shiva as Omkareshwar and counted among the twelve Jyotirlingas.
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HinduismPadmanabhaswamy Temple
, India
A Hindu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, dedicated to Vishnu as Anantha Padmanabhaswamy and counted among the 108 Divya Desams of the Sri Vaishnava tradition.
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Puthiyakavu Devi Temple
, India
A Hindu temple of the Devi at Ponkunnam in the Kottayam district of Kerala, India, long honoured as a resting place for pilgrims on the way to the Ayyappa shrine at Sabarimala.
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HinduismSasthamcotta Sree Dharma Sastha Temple
, India
A Hindu temple in the village of Sasthamkotta, Kerala, ringed on three sides by the state's largest freshwater lake and devoted to Shri Dharma Sastha.
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HinduismShore Temple
, India
An eighth-century Pallava granite sanctuary at Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu, India, overlooking the Bay of Bengal and protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site within the Group of Monuments.
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HinduismSita Samahit Sthal
, India
A Hindu pilgrimage site in the Poorvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh, honoured as the place where Mata Sita is believed to have returned into the earth at the close of her earthly life.
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