Sacred Places
219 places found
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TaoismBangka Lungshan Temple
, Taiwan
A historic Taiwanese folk temple in Taipei's Wanhua District, founded by Fujianese settlers in 1738 and dedicated above all to the bodhisattva Guanyin.
temple
HinduismBAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London
, United Kingdom
A traditional Swaminarayan Hindu mandir in Neasden, north-west London — celebrated as the first authentically built Hindu stone temple in Britain and in Europe.
temple
IslamBasharat Mosque
, Spain
The principal Ahmadiyya mosque of Spain, built at Pedro Abad near Córdoba and inaugurated in 1982 as the centre of the Ahmadiyya community in the country.
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IslamBayezid I Mosque
, Turkey
An early Ottoman congregational mosque in Bursa, Turkey, raised between 1391 and 1395 as the centrepiece of the great külliye complex of Sultan Bayezid I, called 'Yıldırım' — the Thunderbolt.
mosque
IslamBerlin Mosque
, Germany
The oldest surviving mosque in Germany, built in Berlin's Wilmersdorf district in the 1920s in a Neo-Mughal style and administered by the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement.
mosque
HinduismBesakih
, Indonesia
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.
temple
HinduismBhimashankar Temple
, India
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.
temple
HinduismBishyanath Temple
, Bangladesh
A notable Śaiva temple in the Mymensingh district of Bangladesh, dedicated to Lord Śiva and recognised for its distinctive pagoda-like architectural form.
temple
IslamBlue Mosque
, Afghanistan
The Blue Mosque of Mazar-i-Sharif — the Shrine of Hazrat Ali — a turquoise-tiled mosque and mausoleum revered across Afghanistan as one of the holiest sites in the country.
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ChristianityBolnisi Sioni
, Georgia
A late-fifth-century Georgian Orthodox basilica in Bolnisi — the oldest surviving church building in Georgia, famed for its early Georgian-script inscriptions.
church
HinduismBoro Kali Bari Temple
, Bangladesh
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.
temple
IslamBursa Grand Mosque
, Turkey
An early Ottoman congregational mosque in Bursa, Turkey, commissioned by Sultan Bayezid I to mark his victory at Nicopolis and built between 1396 and 1399.
mosque