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Abu Simbel Temples
Abu Simbel, Aswan, Egypt
Abu Simbel stands as Egypt's supreme statement of divine kingship carved into living rock....
Abydos
Bani Mansour, Sohag, Egypt
The Temple of Seti I at Abydos contains what many consider the finest carved reliefs in Egyptian history, created at what ancient Egyptians believed was their holiest...
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...
Aizanoi
Kütahya, Turkey
Aizanoi in western Turkey contains one of the best-preserved Roman temples in existence, remarkable for its dual dedication: Zeus Olympios above in the bright Ionic...
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....
Akechi-ji
Yokoze, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Akechi-ji is the ninth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Yokoze, Saitama....
Altıntepe
Erzincan, Turkey
Altıntepe — 'golden hill' — rises 60 metres above the Upper Euphrates on the Erzincan plain, its volcanic form carrying a Tower-temple to Haldi, a columned audience hall,...
An'yō-in
Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
An'yō-in is the third station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho — a small Jōdo-shū temple in Kamakura founded as Hōjō Masako's grief-prayer for her husband Minamoto no Yoritomo,...
Anao-ji
Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Anao-ji is station 21 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Kyoto dedicated to Shō Kannon....
Anko-ji
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Ankō-ji is an independent Tendai temple founded in 775 CE by Prince Kaisei on a wooded hillside north of Takatsuki....
Anraku-ji
Kamiita, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Anraku-ji is Temple 6 of the Shikoku 88, in Kamiita, Tokushima. Yakushi Nyorai, the Buddha of Healing, presides here, and Anraku-ji is the only fudasho with its own onsen....
Anraku-ji
Yoshimi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Anraku-ji, the Yoshimi Kannon, is the eleventh station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage....
Araiyakushi Baishouin
Nakano City, Tokyo, Japan
Araiyakushi Baishouin (薬王寺) is an active Shingon Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....
Aranmula Parthasarathy Temple
Aranmula, Kerala, India
Aranmula Parthasarathy Temple is a living sacred place in Aranmula, Kerala. Aranmula’s palliyodams are not interchangeable with every Kerala racing boat....
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...
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....
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....
Asuka-dera
Asuka, Nara Prefecture, Japan
In a quiet valley surrounded by rice fields, Japan's oldest surviving Buddha statue has watched from the same location for over 1,400 years....
Ateshgah Fire Temple
Surakhani, Baku, Azerbaijan
Ateshgah Fire Temple is a documented temple in Surakhani, Baku, Azerbaijan, connected with Zoroastrianism....
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....
Awa Kokubun-ji
Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Awa Kokubun-ji is the official kokubunji—provincial Buddhist temple—of Awa Province, founded by imperial edict of Emperor Shōmu in 741 to pray for the welfare of the...
Azabusan Zenpukuji
Minato City, Tokyo, Japan
Azabusan Zenpukuji (麻布山 善福寺) is an active Jodo Shinshu Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....
Bà Chúa Xứ Temple
Châu Đốc, An Giang, Vietnam
At the foot of Núi Sam, Bà Chúa Xứ Temple receives vows, petitions, and thanksgiving addressed to the Holy Mother of the Realm....
Bà Đen Mountain
Tây Ninh, Tây Ninh, Vietnam
Bà Đen Mountain is southern Vietnam's most prominent mountain pilgrimage landscape....
Bà Thiên Hậu Temple, Chợ Lớn
District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Tuệ Thành Guildhall in Chợ Lớn is both a Cantonese communal institution and a living temple of Mazu, honoured locally as Bà Thiên Hậu....
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....
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...
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...
Baegyangsa Temple
Jangseong-gun, Jeollanam-do, South Korea
Baegyangsa’s public image often begins with Ssanggyeru Pavilion mirrored in a pond beneath Baegamsan cliffs....
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...
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....
Baishatun Gongtian Temple, Tongxiao
Tongxiao, Miaoli County, Taiwan
At Gongtian Temple in Baishatun, a centuries-old Mazu statue leaves each spring on foot, and no one — not the bearers, not the temple, not the hundreds of thousands who...
Ballaleshwar Temple, Pali
Pali, Maharashtra, India
Ballaleshwar Temple in Pali is an active Ashtavinayak shrine whose Ganesha form is named for the devotee Ballal....
Bangka Longshan Temple
Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Founded in 1738 by Fujian settlers in Taipei's oldest quarter, Longshan Temple holds more than a hundred deities beneath one roof....
Baozhong Yimin Temple
Xinpu, Hsinchu County, Hsinchu County, Taiwan
Baozhong Yimin Temple in Xinpu, Hsinchu County, was built over the mass grave of more than two hundred Hakka militia and civilians who died defending their villages during...
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....
Batu Caves Murugan Temple
Selayang Municipal Council, Selangor, Malaysia
Just north of Kuala Lumpur, a limestone hill rises to a soaring cavern enshrining Lord Murugan, the Tamil warrior-god of victory and wisdom....
Baylangdra Temple
Lengbi, Wangdue Phodrang, Bhutan
Hidden for centuries and revealed only in 1988, Baylangdra is one of the three holiest pilgrimage sites of Guru Rinpoche in Bhutan....
Beigang Chaotian Temple
Beigang, Yunlin County, Yunlin County, Taiwan
Beigang Chaotian Temple holds the incense smoke of over a million pilgrims a year, its dragon-carved halls the recognized wellspring for more than 300 branch Mazu temples...
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....
Beopjusa Temple
Boeun-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea
Beopjusa Temple occupies a broad monastic precinct beneath Songnisan's peaks. Its living Buddhist community, Maitreya devotion, Palsangjeon wooden pagoda, and protected...
Besakih temple
Besakih, Bali, Indonesia
On the southwestern slope of Mount Agung, a complex of twenty-three temples rises in six terraces toward the holiest mountain in Bali....
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....
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....
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....
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...
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....
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....
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- What temple sacred sites are included?
- Temple sacred sites are places where this site type carries religious, ritual, cultural, or pilgrimage significance. This guide lists 657 in the current Pilgrim Map atlas.
- Where are these temple sites located?
- Major country clusters include Japan, India, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam.
- Which traditions are represented?
- Traditions represented here include Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Korean Buddhism, Theravada Buddhist, Ancient Greek and Roman.
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