Sacred Places
219 places found
SikhismGurdwara Panja Sahib
, Pakistan
Gurdwara Panja Sahib at Hasan Abdal in Punjab, Pakistan, enshrines a boulder bearing what Sikh tradition holds to be the handprint of Guru Nanak Sahib, beside a sacred spring that flows from beneath it.
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SikhismGurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha
, United Kingdom
Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha Southall, on Guru Nanak Road and Park Avenue in the London Borough of Ealing, is the largest gurdwara in the United Kingdom and the principal Sikh place of worship in the capital.
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SikhismGur Sikh Temple
, Canada
The Gur Sikh Temple in Abbotsford, British Columbia, opened in 1911, is the oldest existing gurdwara in North America and the only gurdwara outside India and Pakistan recognised as a National Historic Site.
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SikhismGurudwara Bangla Sahib
, India
Gurdwara Bangla Sahib in central Delhi is among India's most prominent Sikh shrines, honouring the eighth Guru, Sri Guru Har Krishan Sahib, and the sacred sarovar within its precincts.
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IslamGyanvapi Mosque
, India
The Gyanvapi Mosque is a Sunni Muslim place of worship in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, built in the late seventeenth century beside the present Kashi Vishwanath temple in one of India's most ancient sacred precincts.
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IslamHagia Sophia
, Turkey
Hagia Sophia, the Grand Mosque of the Holy Wisdom in Istanbul, was the Byzantine cathedral of Constantinople for nearly a thousand years before its conversion to a mosque in 1453 and its present role as a working Friday mosque of the Turkish republic.
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IslamHassan II Mosque
, Morocco
The Hassan II Mosque rises above the Atlantic in Casablanca, Morocco, the second-largest mosque in Africa and home to the world's second-tallest minaret, completed in 1993 through the labour of thousands of Moroccan craftsmen.
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SikhismHazur Sahib
, India
Hazur Sahib at Nanded in Maharashtra, formally known as Takht Sachkhand Sri Hazur Abchalnagar Sahib, is among the five Takhts of Sikhism and stands on the bank of the Godavari where Guru Gobind Singh Sahib merged into Joti Jot.
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ShintoHiraoka Shrine
, Japan
Hiraoka Jinja in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture, is the Ichinomiya, the foremost shrine, of the former Kawachi Province, and the ancestral Shinto sanctuary from which two of the kami of Kasuga Taisha were enshrined.
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ShintoHiroshima Gokoku Shrine
, Japan
Hiroshima Gokoku Jinja, set within the grounds of Hiroshima Castle, is a Shinto shrine dedicated to the spirits of the Hiroshima war dead, rebuilt by the citizens of the city after its destruction in the atomic bombing.
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ChristianityHoly Rosary Cathedral
, Taiwan
Holy Rosary Cathedral in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is the oldest Roman Catholic church on the island and the mother church of the Archdiocese of Kaohsiung, dedicated to Our Lady of the Holy Rosary.
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JainismHutheesing Jain Temple
, India
Hutheesing Jain Temple in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, is a nineteenth-century Shvetambara shrine dedicated to Dharmanatha, the fifteenth Tirthankara, and one of the most celebrated Jain temples in western India.
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