Sacred Places
51 places found
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HinduismAmarnath Temple
, India
A high Himalayan cave shrine in Jammu and Kashmir where a naturally forming ice lingam is venerated as Lord Śiva, drawing one of India's great seasonal pilgrimages.
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HinduismBadami cave temples
, India
A celebrated complex of sixth- to eighth-century Hindu, Jain, and (likely) Buddhist cave temples carved into the red sandstone cliffs of Badami in northern Karnataka, India.
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HinduismBadrinath Temple
, India
A major Himalayan Vaiṣṇava pilgrimage temple in Uttarakhand, India — one of the four Char Dham and one of the 108 Divya Desams sacred to the worship of Lord Vishnu.
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HinduismBAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London
, United Kingdom
A traditional Swaminarayan Hindu mandir in Neasden, north-west London — celebrated as the first authentically built Hindu stone temple in Britain and in Europe.
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HinduismBesakih
, Indonesia
Bali's principal Hindu sanctuary — the 'Mother Temple' (Pura Besakih) — set high on the slopes of the sacred volcano Gunung Agung in eastern Bali, Indonesia.
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HinduismBhimashankar Temple
, India
A revered Śiva temple in the forested Sahyadri hills of Maharashtra, India, enshrining one of the twelve Jyotirliṅgas and standing close to the source of the Bhīmā River.
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HinduismBishyanath Temple
, Bangladesh
A notable Śaiva temple in the Mymensingh district of Bangladesh, dedicated to Lord Śiva and recognised for its distinctive pagoda-like architectural form.
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HinduismBoro Kali Bari Temple
, Bangladesh
One of the oldest and most beloved Kālī temples of Mymensingh, Bangladesh, founded around three hundred years ago and known among devotees as Joy Kālī.
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HinduismChandranath Temple
, Bangladesh
A celebrated Śākta pīṭha atop Chandranāth Hill in Chittagong, Bangladesh, traditionally identified as the place where the right arm of Devī Satī fell to the earth.
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HinduismChau Say Tevoda
, Cambodia
A mid-twelfth-century Hindu sanctuary within the great Angkor complex of Cambodia, dedicated to Śiva and Viṣṇu and admired for its delicate devatā reliefs of female celestials.
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HinduismDevasathan
, Thailand
The official Hindu temple of the Thai royal court in Bangkok, founded in 1784 by King Rama I and home to the Court Brahmins descended from a priestly lineage of Rāmeśvaram.
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HinduismDhakeshwari Temple
, Bangladesh
The National Temple of Bangladesh, in Old Dhaka, dedicated to the goddess Dhākeśvarī — 'the goddess of Dhaka' — from whom the city itself is held to take its name.
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