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Vivekananda Rock Memorial, Kanyakumari
Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India
At the southernmost tip of India, where the Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean converge, stands the Kumari Amman Temple....
Arulmigu Sri Parthasarathyswamy Temple
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
One of the 108 Divya Desams glorified by the Alvar saints, the Parthasarathy Temple in Chennai houses a form of Vishnu found nowhere else: Krishna as Arjuna's charioteer,...
Ellora caves, Maharashtra
Khuldabad, Maharashtra, India
Over four centuries, Buddhist monks, Hindu devotees, and Jain ascetics carved 34 temples and monasteries into a basalt cliff in western India—side by side, in the same...
Kadalekalu Ganesha Temple, Hampi, Karnataka
Hampi, Karnataka, India
On the boulder-strewn slopes of Hemakuta Hill, the Vijayanagara sculptors carved their devotion into a single massive granite boulder....
Sri Mahalingaswamy Temple
Priranavidagam, Tamil Nadu, India
At Tiruvidaimarudur, a self-manifested Shiva lingam has drawn pilgrims for over two millennia....
Hanuman Tok
Gangtok, Sikkim, India
High in the Himalayan state of Sikkim, at 7,200 feet, a Hindu temple marks the spot where Lord Hanuman is believed to have rested during his legendary flight bearing a...
Kakatiya Rudreshwara Ramappa Temple, Telangana
Palampet, Telangana, India
Rising from the Telangana countryside on a star-shaped platform, Ramappa Temple stands as the pinnacle of Kakatiya dynasty architecture....
Shri Chakreshwari Devi Temple (Sharika Mata Temple)
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Perched atop Hari Parbat in Srinagar, Sharika Mata Temple houses a Svayambhu Sri Chakra—a self-manifested sacred geometric form on natural rock that Tantric practitioners...
Brihadeeswara Temple, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India
In 1010 CE, the Chola emperor Rajaraja I completed a temple so vast that its tower rises 216 feet and its capstone weighs 80 tons....
Adi Kumbeswarar Temple, Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu
Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India
Rising in the heart of Kumbakonam, Adi Kumbeswarar Temple holds what devotees understand as a swayambhu lingam—Shiva manifest in stone formed from amrita, the nectar of...
Kalahasteeswarar Temple, Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu
Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India
The Kalahasteeswarar Temple in Kumbakonam is considered equivalent to the renowned Srikalahasti Temple near Tirupati, earning it the name Then Kalahasti, Southern...
Group of Monuments at Hampi
Hampi, Karnataka, India
Hampi sprawls across a boulder-strewn landscape in Karnataka, its sixteen hundred monuments testifying to the Vijayanagara Empire's golden age....
Badrinath
Badrinath, Uttarakhand, India
Rising at 3,133 meters in the Garhwal Himalayas, Badrinath Temple stands as one of Hinduism's four Char Dham—the pilgrimage circuit that promises liberation to those who...
Venkateswara temple, Tirumala, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh
Tirumala, Andhra Pradesh, India
Tirumala Venkateswara Temple rises on the Seven Hills of Andhra Pradesh as the most visited religious site on Earth....
Bhoramdev Temple, Kabirdham district, Chhattisgarh
Bodla Tahsil, Chhattisgarh, India
Rising from the forested foothills of the Maikal range, Bhoramdeo Temple has held Shiva in an embrace of stone for nearly a millennium....
Somnath Jyotir Linga Shiva Temple, Somnath, Gujarat
Veraval, Gujarat, India
Somnath is the Adi Jyotirlinga — the first in the canonical sequence of twelve — standing on the Saurashtra coast where Chandra the moon-god is said to have installed it....
Arulmigu Vaithya Veeraraghavar Temple, Thiruevvul, Tamil Nadu
Tiruvallur, Tamil Nadu, India
At Tiruvallur, on the edge of the Chennai region, Vishnu is venerated as Vaidya Veeraraghava—the healing form of the Lord, reclining on the serpent Adishesha....
Shri Amarnath Shiva Cave, Kashmir
Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Shri Amarnath is the rare Shaiva shrine where the deity is not represented but literally manifests, year after year, as a column of ice that forms and dissolves with the...
Trimbakeshwar Jyotir Linga Shiva Temple, Trimbak, Maharashtra
Trimbak, Maharashtra, India
Trimbakeshwar is the tenth jyotirlinga and the only one with a three-faced lingam — Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva together....
Andal Vishnu Temple, Srivilliputhur, Tamil Nadu
Thiruvilliputtur state assembly constituency, Tamil Nadu, India
A Divya Desam in southern Tamil Nadu, Srivilliputhur is the birthplace of two Alvar saints — Periyalvar and the only female Alvar, Andal — and the place where Andal...
Ananta Vasudeva Temple, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, Odisha, India
In the Shaiva temple-town of Bhubaneswar, Ananta Vasudeva is the single major Vishnu shrine....
Aathmanatha Swamy temple, Avudaiyarkoil, Thiruperunthurai, Tamil Nadu
Avudaiyarkoil, Tamil Nadu, India
At Avudaiyarkoil in Tamil Nadu, the Athmanathaswamy Temple offers one of Hinduism's rarest forms of worship: Shiva is honored not as a lingam but as the formless...
Thillai Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu
Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India
Chidambaram is the temple where Shiva is held to have performed the Ananda Tandava, the dance of bliss....
Brihadeeswarar Temple
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India
The Brihadeeswarar Temple in Thanjavur, completed in 1010 CE under Rajaraja Chola I, is one of India's grandest Shiva temples and a UNESCO Great Living Chola Temple....
Vaidyanath Jyotir Linga and Jai Durga Shakti Pitha, Deoghar, Jharkhand
Deoghar, Jharkhand, India
Baidyanath Dham is the ninth of the twelve jyotirlingas, the only one understood as Shiva-the-physician, and the only complex where a jyotirlinga and a Shakti Pitha...
Kalpeshwar temple, Uttarakhand
Urgam, Uttarakhand, India
Kalpeshwar is the fifth and final shrine of the Panch Kedar, a small stone temple built into a cave in Uttarakhand's Urgam Valley where Shiva's jata, his matted locks, are...
Danteshwari Temple, Chhattisgarh
Dondi Tahsil, Chhattisgarh, India
At the meeting of the Shankini and Dankini rivers in Dantewada stands a temple held to mark where Sati's tooth fell, one of the 52 Shakti Peethas....
Savitri Mata Mandi (Savitri Temple)
Pushkar, Rajasthan, India
Perched atop Ratnagiri Hill in Pushkar, the Savitri Mata Temple honors the first wife of Lord Brahma, who cursed her husband and merged with this mountain....
Anegudde Shree Vinayaka Ganapathi Temple, Anegudde, Karnataka
Kumbhashi, Karnataka, India
On a low hill near Kumbashi in coastal Karnataka, Anegudde enshrines Ganesha in a rare standing four-armed form....
Grishneswar Jyotirlinga Temple, Verul, Maharashtra
Ellora, Maharashtra, India
At Verul in the Deccan, less than a kilometre from the rock-cut monasteries of Ellora, stands the closing verse of the Dwadasha Jyotirlinga Stotram....
Brahma Sarovar, Kurukshetra, Haryana
Kurukshetra, Haryana, India
Brahma Sarovar is a vast sacred tank in Kurukshetra, Haryana, where tradition holds Brahma performed the first yajna and the universe began....
Omkareshwar Jyotir Linga Shiva temple, Omkareshwar, Madhya Pradesh
Omkareshwar, Madhya Pradesh, India
Omkareshwar is the fourth jyotirlinga and the only one located on an island. Mandhata Island sits in the Narmada — tradition holds it is shaped like the sacred syllable Om....
Brahmeswara Temple, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha
Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, Odisha, India
Brahmeswara Temple is a Shiva shrine of 1058 CE in Bhubaneswar, built by Queen Kolavati Devi within the dense Shaiva landscape of Ekamra Kshetra....
Bagnath Temple, Bageshwar, Uttarakhand
Bāgeshwar, Uttarakhand, India
At the confluence of the Sarayu and Gomati in the Kumaon Himalaya, Bagnath enshrines Shiva as Vyaghreshwar, the Tiger Lord, said to have appeared as a tiger to the sage...
Baba Balak Nath Temple, Deotsidh, Himachal Pradesh
Dhatwal, Himachal Pradesh, India
On a hilltop above Chakmoh in Himachal Pradesh, a natural cave enshrines Baba Balak Nath—revered both as an avatar of Kartikeya and as an immortal Natha yogi....
Chamundeshwari Temple, Mysore, Karnataka
Chamundipuram, Karnataka, India
Atop Chamundi Hills above Mysuru stands the temple of Chamundeshwari, a fierce form of Durga said to have slain the demon Mahishasura here....
Kedarnath Temple, Uttarakhand
Kedarnath, Uttarakhand, India
Kedarnath Temple stands at 3,583 metres in the Garhwal Himalayas, the highest of the twelve Jyotirlingas and one of Uttarakhand's four Char Dham sites....
Annamalayar Shiva Temple, Tiruvanamalai, Tamil Nadu
Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India
Arunachala is the agni (fire) element of the five Pancha Bhuta temples. Here Shiva is not enshrined in a temple but is the hill itself — a freestanding granite mass rising...
Avanti Swami Temple ruins, Kashmir
Avantipora, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Above the Jhelum near Awantipora stand the grey stone ruins of Avantiswami, the great Vishnu temple of King Avantivarman's lost 9th-century capital....
Chandramouleshwara Temple, Hubli, Karnataka
Hubli, Karnataka, India
At Unkal in Hubballi, the Chandramauleshwara Temple is a Kalyana Chalukya Shiva shrine with a rare four-faced linga and doors on all four sides....
Bhaskareswara Temple, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, Odisha, India
On Tankapani Road in Bhubaneswar, the Bhaskareswar Temple is an architectural anomaly — a two-tiered shrine without the usual assembly hall, built specifically to house a...
Jagannath Vishnu Temple, Puri, Odisha
Puri (M), Odisha, India
Jagannath Temple is less a monument than a living order of worship, food, service, and pilgrimage....
Ajgaivinath Dham Shiva Temple, Sultanganj, Bihar
Sultanganj, Bihar, India
On a rock island in the Ganga at Sultanganj, Ajgaivinath holds a rock-carved Shiva linga that the river continually bathes....
Bhadrakali Temple, Hanamkonda, Telangana
Hanamkonda, Telangana, India
On a hill between Warangal and Hanamkonda, beside Bhadrakali Lake, sits one of Telangana's oldest goddess shrines....
Badami Cave Temples, Badami, Karnataka
Badami, Karnataka, India
Cut into a cliff above Agastya Lake at Badami, ancient Vatapi, four rock-cut caves hold the gods in monumental form: Shiva dancing and Vishnu striding the cosmos in three...
Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga Shiva Temple, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India
Mahakaleshwar is the only dakshinamukhi (south-facing) jyotirlinga among the twelve and the sole temple in the world whose daily 04:00 aarti smears the lingam with sacred...
Amruteshvara Temple, Tarikere, Karnataka
Neralekere, Karnataka, India
At Amruthapura in Karnataka's green Malnad country, this 1196 Hoysala temple wraps an active Shiva shrine in soapstone reliefs of the Ramayana, Mahabharata and Krishna's...
Arulmigu Ramanathaswamy Temple, Rameshvaram, Tamil Nadu
Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, India
Rameswaram is the temple Rama himself is said to have consecrated — a Shiva shrine raised by Vishnu's avatar in expiation for war....
Chengannur Mahadeva Temple, Chengannur, Kerala
Chengannur, Kerala, India
Chengannur Mahadeva Temple, among Kerala's oldest, enshrines Shiva and Parvati facing each other in one complex....
Bharateswar Temple, Odisha
Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, Odisha, India
In the old town of Bhubaneswar, the Bharateswar Temple stands at the centre of a trio of sixth-century Shiva shrines named for the Ramayana heroes....
Bhairabi Mandir
Tezpur, Assam, India
On a hillock on the eastern edge of Tezpur, the Bhairabi Temple holds the image of Bhairavi, a fierce form of the Goddess....
Arulmigu Koodal Azhagar Vishnu temple, Periyar, Madurai, Tamil Nadu
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
In the heart of Madurai, Koodal Azhagar is an ancient Divya Desam where Vishnu appears in all three postures together — seated, standing and reclining — beneath the rare...
Biraja Temple, Jajpur, Odisha
Jajpur, Odisha, India
At Jajpur in Odisha, Maa Biraja marks where, by tradition, the navel of Sati fell — making the town Viraja Kshetra and the temple Nabhi Gaya, a place for ancestral rites...
Baidyanath Shiva Temple, Deoghar, Jharkhand
Deoghar, Jharkhand, India
In the Jharkhand town of Deoghar, a lotus-towered shrine holds one of the twelve self-manifest abodes of Shiva, called the divine physician....
Chottanikkara Bhagavathy Temple, Chottannikkara, Kerala
Kanayannur, Kerala, India
Near Thrippunithura outside Kochi, Chottanikkara honours the goddess Rajarajeswari in three forms across the day, and the fierce Bhadrakali at its lower Keezhkavu shrine....
Chettikulangara Bhagavathy Temple, Mavelikkara, Kerala
Chettikulangara, Kerala, India
In a village west of Mavelikkara stands one of central Kerala's great goddess temples, where Bhadrakali is honoured at dawn as Saraswati, at midday as Lakshmi, and in the...
Attukal Bhagavathy Temple, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
At Attukal in Thiruvananthapuram, the goddess is worshipped as Bhadrakali and identified with Kannagi, the wronged heroine who became a deity of justice....
Kashi Vishwanath Temple, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Kashi Vishwanath houses one of the twelve jyotirlingas — Shiva manifest as a self-arisen pillar of light — at the heart of Varanasi, where the Ganga, the cremation ghats,...
Gangotri Temple, Uttarakhand
Gangotri, Uttarakhand, India
Gangotri Temple stands beside the Bhagirathi river in the Garhwal Himalaya, at the place Hindu tradition holds Ganga first touched earth....
Brahma Temple, Pushkar, Rajasthan
Pushkar, Rajasthan, India
The Jagatpita Brahma Mandir in Pushkar is the most prominent of the very few temples in India dedicated to Brahma the creator....
Arulmigu Subramanya Swamy Koil, Thiruttani, Tamil Nadu
Karamangalam, Tamil Nadu, India
One of the six sacred abodes of Murugan, Tiruttani is the place where the war-god, having destroyed the demon Surapadman, came to calm his fury and dwell in peace....
Basukinath Temple, Jarmundi, Jharkhand
Jarmundi, Jharkhand, India
In a corner of Jharkhand's Dumka district stands Basukinath Dham, where Shiva is worshipped as Fauzdari Baba — the lord who personally hears petitions....
Bedini Kund Sacred Lake, Bedini Bugyal, Uttarakhand
Tharali, Uttarakhand, India
High in the Chamoli meadows of Uttarakhand, a still glacial lake reflects the peaks of Trishul and Nanda Ghunti....
Anjeyanadri (Anjanadri) Hill, Hampi, Karnataka
Hanumanahalli, Karnataka, India
Across the Tungabhadra from Hampi, Anjanadri Betta is venerated by many as Anjaneyadri — the hill where Hanuman was born — and identified with the Ramayana's Kishkindha....
Bhaktavatsala Perumal Temple, Tiruninravar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Avadi, Tamil Nadu, India
At Thirunindravur, a western suburb of Chennai, stands one of the 108 Divya Desams — the Vishnu shrines hymned by the Tamil Alvar saints....
Bhramaramba Ammavari Shakti Peetham Temple, Srisailam, Andhra Pradesh
Srisailam, Andhra Pradesh, India
High in the forested Nallamala Hills above the Krishna river, Srisailam holds something found nowhere else: a Maha Shakti Peetha and a Jyotirlinga together....
Dakshineswar Kali temple, Kolkata, West Bengal
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
On the Hooghly in northern Kolkata stands the temple Rani Rashmoni built after a dream of the goddess....
Arulmigu Uchi Pillaiyar Temple, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu
Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India
Atop a monolithic rock rising above the Kaveri in central Trichy, Shiva is worshipped as Thayumanavar—'the one who became mother'—from the legend of a deity who took a...
Lingaraj Temple, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, Odisha, India
Lingaraj is the architectural and devotional centre of Bhubaneswar, the Temple City of India....
Betrayaswamy Temple, Denkanikota, Tamil Nadu
Denkanikottai, Tamil Nadu, India
In the fort town of Denkanikottai near the Karnataka border, a five-tiered gateway tower marks a Vishnu temple held to be around a thousand years old....
Belur Chennakeshava Temple, Karnataka
Bellotte, Karnataka, India
On the banks of the Yagachi in Karnataka, the Chennakeshava Temple has held daily worship of Vishnu since 1117 CE....
Bhimashankar Shiva Jyotir Linga temple, Bhimashankar, Maharashtra
Bhimashankar, Maharashtra, India
High in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, Bhimashankar is one of the twelve Jyotirlingas of Shiva — places where the god is held to have manifested as a column of light....
Arulmigu Thiruparankundram Murugan Temple, Tamil Nadu
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
Carved into a single granite hill near Madurai, Thiruparankundram is the first of Murugan's six sacred abodes and the site of his marriage to Deivanai after the defeat of...
Bhalka Tirth, Veraval, Gujarat
Veraval, Gujarat, India
At Prabhas Patan near Veraval in Gujarat, Bhalka Tirth marks the spot where, by tradition, a hunter's arrow struck Krishna as he sat in yogic repose beneath a peepal tree....
Chennakeshava Temple, Somanathapur, Karnataka
Bevinahalli, Karnataka, India
The Chennakeshava Temple at Somanathapura, consecrated in 1258 CE, is the most complete surviving Hoysala temple, a three-shrined sanctuary to Vishnu on a star-shaped...
Bhoga Nandeeshwara Temple, Nandi, Karnataka
Nandi, Karnataka, India
At the foot of the Nandi Hills near Bangalore, the Bhoga Nandishwara complex preserves over a thousand years of unbroken Shaiva worship....
Murudeshwara Shiva temple, Bhatkal Taluk, Karnataka
Bailuru, Karnataka, India
Murudeshwara stands on Kanduka Hill, a small headland projecting into the Arabian Sea on Karnataka's coast....
Arulmigu Shri Yoga Narasimha Swamy Temple, Sholinghur, Tamil Nadu
Sholinghur, Tamil Nadu, India
Above the Tamil plain, reached by 1,305 steps, Vishnu is enshrined here not in his fierce lion-man fury but in calm yogic posture....
Arulmigu Nellaiappar Temple, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu
Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India
On the bank of the sacred Thamirabarani in Tirunelveli, the Kanthimathi Nellaiappar Temple joins twin shrines of Shiva and Parvati across a 14.5-acre complex....
Bateshwar Temple, Bateshwar, Uttar Pradesh
Bateshwar, Uttar Pradesh, India
On a curve of the Yamuna south of Agra, a line of around a hundred white-spired Shiva temples stands above the ghats....
Nageshwar Jyotirlinga
Dwarka, Dwarka, Gujarat, India
On a quiet stretch of Saurashtra coast seventeen kilometres north-west of Dwarka, Nageshwar stands as the tenth of the twelve Jyotirlingas — Shiva as Nagesha, the lord of...
Rudranath Temple
Gopeshwar area, Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India
Rudranath is the fourth of the Panch Kedar temples, holding a self-manifested rock face of Shiva deep in a Garhwal Himalayan forest, reached only by a multi-day trek...
Madhyamaheshwar Temple
Gaundar, Rudraprayag district, Uttarakhand, India
Madhyamaheshwar enshrines the navel of a bull-formed Shiva at roughly 3,497 metres in the Garhwal Himalayas, reached by a multi-day trek through pine forest and river...
Tungnath Temple
Tungnath, Rudraprayag district, Uttarakhand, India
Tungnath is the highest of the five Panch Kedar temples, a stone Shiva shrine set above the treeline in the Garhwal Himalayas, reached only on foot and closed to the world...
Grishneshwar Jyotirlinga
Verul, Verul, Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar district, Maharashtra, India
Grishneshwar is the last of Shiva's twelve jyotirlingas, standing in Verul village barely a kilometre from the Ellora Caves but belonging to an entirely different order of...
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