Sacred Places
51 places found
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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HinduismPrambanan Temple
, Indonesia
A ninth-century Hindu temple compound in the Special Region of Yogyakarta on southern Java, Indonesia, dedicated to the Trimurti of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.
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HinduismPura Luhur
, Indonesia
A Balinese Hindu sea temple on the south-western tip of the Bukit Peninsula in Uluwatu, Badung Regency, Bali, Indonesia, counted among the nine directional temples of the island.
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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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HinduismRamna Kali Temple
, Bangladesh
A Hindu temple to the goddess Kali in Dhaka, Bangladesh, originally founded in the Mughal era, destroyed in 1971 during the Liberation War, and reconsecrated in 2021.
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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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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.
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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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HinduismSugandha Shaktipeeth
, Bangladesh
A revered Hindu Shakta pitha in Shikarpur village near Barisal, Bangladesh, where the nose of Devi Sati is held to have fallen, manifested in the form of the goddess Sunanda.
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HinduismSwami Bagh Temple
, Bangladesh
A prominent ISKCON-managed Vaishnava temple and ashram in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from which the annual Jagannath Rath Yatra of the capital begins each year.
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