Sacred Places
43 places found
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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Nakoda
, India
A Jain pilgrimage site centred on Nakodaji, the historic temple of Parshvanatha at the village of Nakoda in the Barmer-Jodhpur region of Rajasthan, India.
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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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JainismPanchakuta Basadi, Kambadahalli
, India
A Jain temple complex in the village of Kambadahalli in Mandya district, Karnataka, India, regarded as a fine example of Western Ganga Dravidian architecture.
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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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JainismRishabhdeo
, India
A Jain pilgrimage town in Udaipur district, Rajasthan, India, centred on the Kesariyaji Tirth, the temple of Lord Rishabhanatha, the first Tirthankara of Jainism.
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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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JainismShankheshwar Jain Temple
, India
A revered Shwetambar Jain tirth in Shankheshwar town, Gujarat, dedicated to the twenty-third Tirthankara Parshvanatha and counted among the principal pilgrimage shrines of Western India.
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JainismShikharji
, India
The supreme Jain tirth in Giridih district, Jharkhand, where twenty of the twenty-four Tirthankaras attained Moksha upon Parasnath hill, the highest peak of the state.
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