Sacred Places
219 places found
ChristianitySalzburg Cathedral
, Austria
The Baroque seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg in Austria, dedicated to Saints Rupert and Vergilius and known as the place where Mozart received baptism.
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ShintoSamukawa Shrine
, Japan
An ancient Shinto shrine in Kanagawa Prefecture, honoured as the ichinomiya of former Sagami Province and drawing roughly two million worshippers each year.
shrine
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.
temple
IndigenousSecond Temple
, Kingdom of Judah
The sanctuary that succeeded Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, built around 516 BCE and later expanded by Herod the Great, central to Jewish worship until its destruction in 70 CE.
sacred natural site
IslamSelimiye Mosque
, Turkey
A name shared by several Ottoman-era mosques across Turkey and beyond, most famously the great sixteenth-century sanctuary of Edirne designed by the architect Mimar Sinan.
mosque
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.
temple
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.
temple
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.
temple
HinduismShree Shree Siddheswari Kalimandir
, Bangladesh
A historic Hindu temple of the goddess Kali in Dhaka, Bangladesh, founded in 1441 CE and lending its name to the surrounding Siddheshwari neighbourhood.
temple
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.
temple
TaoismSnake Temple
, Malaysia
A Chinese folk-Buddhist temple in Penang, Malaysia, dedicated to the deified monk Chor Soo Kong and home to a community of resident pit vipers regarded as his disciples.
temple
BuddhismSongyue Pagoda
, People's Republic of China
The oldest surviving brick pagoda in China, built in 523 CE on Mount Song in Henan and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as part of the Historic Monuments of Dengfeng.
monastery