Sacred Places
219 places found
ChristianityInnsbruck Cathedral
, Austria
Innsbruck Cathedral, the Dom zu St Jakob, is the Baroque cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Innsbruck in the Tyrol, dedicated to the apostle Saint James, son of Zebedee.
church
JudaismItalian Synagogue
, Italy
The Italian Synagogue, Scola Italiana, in the Ghetto Nuovo of Venice serves the Italian-rite Jewish community that grew up in the city from the sixteenth century onward, one of five historic scole within the Venetian Jewish quarter.
synagogue
ShintoIwa Shrine
, Japan
Iwa Jinja in the Ichinomiya district of Shiso city, Hyogo Prefecture, is the Ichinomiya, the foremost shrine, of the former Harima Province, dedicated to Okuninushi and two companion kami.
shrine
HinduismJagannath Temple
, India
The Jagannath Temple at Puri on the coast of Odisha is one of the holiest Vaishnava shrines of India, honouring Jagannath, the Lord of the Universe, a form of Vishnu worshipped alongside his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra.
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ChristianityJakarta Cathedral
, Indonesia
Jakarta Cathedral, dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption, is the Latin Catholic seat of the Archbishop of Jakarta, a neo-Gothic church consecrated in 1901 and standing in central Jakarta beside the Istiqlal Mosque.
church
IslamJama Masjid, Delhi
, India
The Masjid-i-Jehan-Numa, known to the wider world as the Jama Masjid of Old Delhi, is one of India's largest mosques and the historic Friday mosque of the Mughal capital of Shahjahanabad.
mosque
IslamJameh Mosque of Qazvin
, Iran
The Jameh Mosque of Qazvin, known in Persian as Masjid-e-Jameh Atiq Qazvin, is a historic Shia Friday mosque in Qazvin, Iran, and among the oldest mosques in the country.
mosque
HinduismJoy Kali Temple
, Bangladesh
Joy Kali Mandir in Dhaka is a centuries-old Hindu temple dedicated to Maa Kali, set between Thathari Bazar and Wari on the road that bears the temple's name.
temple
IndigenousKachikally Museum and Crocodile Pool
, The Gambia
The Kachikally sacred crocodile pool in Bakau, The Gambia, is a longstanding indigenous shrine of the Mandinka tradition, where the crocodiles of the pool are honoured as the bearers of fertility blessings.
sacred natural site
HinduismKailasa Temple, Ellora
, India
The Kailasa Temple at Ellora is the largest rock-cut Hindu temple in the world, carved from a single basalt cliff in the eighth century as an earthly form of Mount Kailasa, the abode of Shiva.
temple
HinduismKal Bhairab Temple
, Bangladesh
Kal Bhairab Mandir in Medda, Brahmanbaria district of Bangladesh, is a Hindu temple sacred to Shiva in his fierce form as Kal Bhairab, known for an exceptionally tall Shivalinga revered by Shaivite devotees.
temple
HinduismKalighat Kali Temple
, India
Kalighat Kali Mandir in Kolkata is among the holiest Shakta shrines in India, dedicated to Maa Kali and counted as one of the fifty-one Shakti Pithas, where the body of Sati is said to have fallen to earth.
temple