Sacred Places
219 places found
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.
temple
TaoismLouguantai
, People's Republic of China
A Taoist temple in Tayu village in Zhouzhi county of Shaanxi province, China, traditionally honoured as the very place where Laozi composed the Tao Te Ching.
temple
IslamMadrid Central Mosque
, Spain
A modern Sunni mosque in the Cuatro Caminos quarter of Madrid's Tetuan district in Spain, opened in 1988 as the first mosque in the city since the end of Islamic rule in 1085.
mosque
JainismMangi-Tungi
, India
A twin-pinnacled Digambara Jain pilgrimage site near Tahrabad in Maharashtra, India, whose caves and shrines climb the Mangi and Tungi peaks above the Nashik plains.
temple
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.
temple
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.
temple
IslamMenüçehr Mosque
, Turkey
An eleventh-century mosque set within the ruins of the medieval Armenian-Islamic city of Ani in Kars Province, Turkey, raised under the Kurdish Shaddadid dynasty.
mosque
IndigenousMeoto Iwa
, Japan
A pair of sacred sea rocks off the coast of Futami in Mie Prefecture, Japan, venerated in Shinto as the Married Couple Rocks and joined each year by a fresh shimenawa rope.
sacred natural site
IslamMesih Mehmed Pasha Mosque
, Turkey
A sixteenth-century Ottoman mosque in the Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey, completed in 1585-86 by Mimar Sinan for the grand vizier Mesih Mehmed Pasha.
mosque
IslamMolla Gürani Mosque
, Turkey
A former Eastern Orthodox church in Istanbul, Turkey, converted by the Ottomans into a mosque and preserved as one of the city's important monuments of Byzantine architecture.
mosque
ChristianityMosque-Cathedral of Cordoba
, Spain
The Catholic cathedral of the Diocese of Cordoba in Andalusia, Spain, also known as the Mezquita and historically as the Great Mosque of Cordoba, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary.
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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.
temple