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Religious
Religious sites reveal how different traditions shape sacred space through architecture, landscape, ritual, and memory.
13 religious sacred sites. Use the country and tradition filters to narrow in.
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Religious sacred sites span countries, traditions, pilgrimage routes, and sacred landscapes represented in the Pilgrim Map atlas.
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| Coverage | 13 religious sacred sites across the current atlas. |
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| UNESCO heritage | 2 UNESCO-tagged religious sites appear in this browse view. |
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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...
Akal Takht, Amritsar, Punjab
Amritsar, Punjab, India
Facing the Golden Temple across the sacred pool in Amritsar, the Akal Takht is the first and supreme of Sikhism's Five Takhts....
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....
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....
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....
Bhabanipur Shaktipeeth Temple
Chandaikona, Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh
On the banks of the Karatoya River in northern Bangladesh, a four-acre temple complex marks the place where a fragment of the Goddess Sati's body is believed to have...
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....
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....
Cave of Elijah on Mount Carmel, Haifa
Haifa, Haifa District, Israel
Carved into the base of Mount Carmel, the Cave of Elijah has drawn pilgrims for nearly three thousand years....
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...
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....
Jebel Musa
Faisaliah Sub-District, Madaba, Jordan
Above the Jordan Valley near Madaba, Mount Nebo is the height from which, in Deuteronomy, Moses beheld the land of Canaan before dying without crossing into it....
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....
Key questions
Religious sacred-site questions
- What religious sacred sites are included?
- Religious sacred sites are places where this site type carries religious, ritual, cultural, or pilgrimage significance. This guide lists 13 in the current Pilgrim Map atlas.
- Where are these religious sites located?
- Major country clusters include India, Bangladesh, Israel, Jordan.
- Which traditions are represented?
- Traditions represented here include Hinduism, Judaism, Sikhism.
- Can I view religious sacred sites on a map?
- Yes. Compare the country and tradition clusters, switch to map view for geography, then use site pages for practical context and related places.