Sacred Places
219 places found
HinduismKaliya jue Temple
, Bangladesh
Kaliya Jue Mandir in Dinajpur, Bangladesh, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Bhagwan Krishna, set in the historic precincts west of the Dinajpur Rajbari.
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HinduismKandariya Mahadeva Temple
, India
The Kandariya Mahadeva Mandir at Khajuraho is the largest and most richly ornamented temple of the western group, a Chandela-era sanctuary of the eleventh century dedicated to Shiva as the Great God of the Cave.
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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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ShintoKikuchi Shrine
, Japan
A Shinto shrine in Kikuchi, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, enshrining three loyalist lords of the Kikuchi clan and counted among the Fifteen Shrines of the Kenmu Restoration.
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ChristianityKlagenfurt Cathedral
, Austria
The Roman Catholic cathedral of the Diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt in Carinthia, Austria, originally raised as a Protestant church and consecrated in 1581 to the Holy Trinity.
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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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ChristianityKönigsberg Cathedral
, Russia
A fourteenth-century Brick Gothic cathedral on Kneiphof island in Kaliningrad, Russia, dedicated to the Virgin Mary and Saint Adalbert of Prague and serving today as a chapel, museum, and concert hall.
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IslamLakemba Mosque
, Australia
The Imam Ali bin Abi Taleb Mosque in suburban Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, a Sunni masjid managed by the Lebanese Muslim Association and the largest mosque in the country.
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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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JudaismŁańcut Synagogue
, Poland
An eighteenth-century vaulted synagogue in Łańcut, southeastern Poland, and a rare surviving example of the bimah-tower synagogues once common across the Polish lands.
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