Sacred Places
51 places found
HinduismKapaleeshwarar Temple
, India
Kapaleeshwarar Kovil in Mylapore, Chennai, is a Tamil Shaiva temple dedicated to Shiva as Kapaleeshwarar and to his consort as Karpagambal, the Goddess of the Wish-Yielding Tree, revered in the seventh-century hymns of the Nayanar saints.
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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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HinduismLalmai Chandi Temple
, Bangladesh
An ancient Hindu temple to the Goddess Kali set on the summit of Lalmai hill in Barura Upazila of Comilla District, Bangladesh, also known as Chandimura Mandir.
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HinduismLaxmi Narayan Mandir
, Bangladesh
A Hindu temple in Dhaka, Bangladesh, dedicated to Lakshmi Narayan, the joined form of Vishnu and his consort Lakshmi honoured across the Vaishnava tradition.
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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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HinduismMuktagachha Shiva temple
, Bangladesh
A twin Hindu temple beside the Rajbari of Muktagachha in Mymensingh District, Bangladesh, raised in 1820 and devoted jointly to Shiva and the goddess Kali.
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HinduismMỹ Sơn
, Vietnam
A UNESCO-listed cluster of Shaiva Hindu temples in central Vietnam, raised between the fourth and thirteenth centuries by the kings of Champa as the religious heart of their Indianised kingdom.
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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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HinduismNyatapola Temple
, Nepal
A five-storeyed Newar temple in Bhaktapur, Nepal, commissioned by King Bhupatindra Malla in 1701 and raised to the Tantric goddess Siddhi Lakshmi, the tallest temple in the country.
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