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Temple pages bring together built sacred spaces where ritual, architecture, deity presence, lineage, and pilgrimage meet.
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Temple sacred sites span countries, traditions, pilgrimage routes, and sacred landscapes represented in the Pilgrim Map atlas.
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Buttsū-ji
Mihara, Japan
Buttsū-ji — Omoto-san Buttsū-ji — is the head temple (daihonzan) of the Buttsū-ji branch of Rinzai Zen, founded in 1397 by Kobayakawa Haruhira and Zen master Gucchū Shūkyū...
Byōdō-ji (平等寺)
Anan, Anan, Tokushima, Japan
Byōdō-ji, Temple 22 of the Shikoku 88, takes its name from Kūkai's vow that all illness be healed equally....
Candi Belahan, Java
Bulusari, East Java, Indonesia
On the wooded eastern slope of Mount Penanggungan in East Java lies Candi Belahan, an eleventh-century royal bathing place....
Candi Jawi, Java
Prigen, East Java, Indonesia
Near Prigen in East Java rises Candi Jawi, the late-thirteenth-century memorial temple of King Kertanagara of Singhasari....
Candi Jolotundo, Java
Kedungudi, East Java, Indonesia
Carved into the western slope of Mount Penanggungan around 977 CE, Jolotundo is the oldest bathing temple in East Java....
Candi Sukuh
Berjo, Central Java, Indonesia
High on the western slope of Mount Lawu stands a temple unlike any other in Java: a truncated stone pyramid rising over terraces, carved with images of Bhima the divine...
Cape Sounion
Lavreotiki Municipal Unit, Attica, Greece
Fifteen white marble columns stand on a headland sixty meters above the sea, marking the southernmost point of Attica....
Çavuştepe
Van, Gürpınar, Turkey
A two-tiered royal fortress on a natural ridge southeast of Van, Çavuştepe was built by Sarduri II in the 8th century BC as both military stronghold and sacred precinct....
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....
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....
Chandranath Shaktipeeth Temple
Sitakunda, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh
At 1,020 feet above the Chittagong coast, Chandranath Temple commands the highest point on the shoreline....
Changu Narayan Temple
Bhaktapur, Bagmati Province, Nepal
On a forested hilltop east of Kathmandu, Nepal's oldest Hindu temple has watched over the valley for over 1,600 years....
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....
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...
Chetinyova Mogila
Krasnovo, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Chetinyova Mogila is the largest Thracian royal mausoleum complex ever discovered....
Chiba-dera
Chiba, Japan
Chiba-dera — also read Senyō-ji — is the 29th station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho and Chiba City's oldest temple....
Chikurin-ji (竹林寺)
Kōchi, Kōchi, Kōchi, Japan
Chikurin-ji crowns Mt. Godaisan above Kōchi City — a Japanese Mañjuśrī mountain modelled on China's Mt....
Chinnamasta
Chhinnamasta, Madhesh Province, Nepal
At the confluence of sacred rivers in Jharkhand, Chhinnamasta Temple honors the most radical form of the Divine Mother: a goddess who severs her own head to nourish her...
Chōhō-ji (Rokkaku-dō) (頂法寺)
Nakagyo-ku, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
Chōhō-ji (Rokkaku-dō) is station 18 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism, Ikenobō / ikebana lineage temple in Kyoto dedicated to Nyoirin Kannon....
Chōkoku-ji (Iiyama Kannon)
Atsugi, Japan
Iiyama Kannon — the local name for Chōkoku-ji on the slopes of Mount Hakusan in Atsugi — has drawn pilgrims for some thirteen centuries....
Chōkoku-ji (Shiraiwa Kannon)
Takasaki, Japan
Chōkoku-ji at Shiraiwa, the Shiraiwa Kannon, is the fifteenth station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage and one of the few remaining Shugendō-affiliated temples on the...
Chōmei-ji (長命寺)
Ōmihachiman, Ōmihachiman, Shiga, Japan
Chōmei-ji is station 31 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Shiga dedicated to Senju Kannon Jūichimen Kannon Shō Kannon....
Chōsen-in (長泉院)
Chichibu, Japan
Chōsen-in — Sasado-san Chōsen-in — is the 29th station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Sōtō Zen temple in the Urayama River valley of Chichibu, Saitama....
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....
Chūzen-ji ((日光山))
Nikkō, Japan
Chūzen-ji, station 18 of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho, sits on the eastern shore of Lake Chūzenji at 1,269 meters, beneath sacred Mount Nantai....
Complesso Nuragico di Malchittu
Alzachèna/Arzachena, Sardinia, Italy
A 1.5-kilometer path climbs through granite landscape to a temple older than the Parthenon by a millennium....
Daien-ji (大渕寺)
Chichibu, Japan
Daien-ji — Ryūga-zan Daien-ji — is the 27th station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Sōtō Zen temple in the Kagemori valley of Chichibu, Saitama....
Daihō-ji (大宝寺)
Kumakōgen, Kumakōgen, Ehime, Japan
Daihō-ji is the forty-fourth temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and its symbolic midpoint, the Nakafudasho....
Daihonzan Eiheiji (Eihei Temple)
Eiheiji Town, Fukui Prefecture, Japan
Hidden in the cedar forests of Fukui Prefecture, Eiheiji stands as one of the two head temples of Soto Zen Buddhism....
Daihōon-ji
Japan
Daihōon-ji, known popularly as Senbon Shakadō, holds Kyoto's oldest surviving wooden building inside the city limits — a 1227 National Treasure main hall that survived the...
Daiji-ji (大慈寺)
Yokoze, Japan
Daiji-ji, the tenth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, is a Sōtō Zen temple founded in 1490 in the Yokoze hills....
Daikō-ji (大興寺)
Mitoyo, Mitoyo, Kagawa, Japan
Daikō-ji, also known as Komatsuoji, sits in farmland on a low hill in Mitoyo, Kagawa....
Dainichi-ji (大日寺)
Itano, Itano, Tokushima, Japan
Dainichi-ji is Temple 4 of the Shikoku 88, in Itano, Tokushima. It enshrines Dainichi Nyorai, the cosmic Buddha at the center of Shingon esotericism....
Dainichi-ji (大日寺)
Tokushima, Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan
Dainichi-ji stands directly across the road from Awa Ichinomiya Shrine, the highest-ranked Shintō shrine of Awa Province....
Dainichi-ji (大日寺)
Kōnan, Kōnan, Kōchi, Japan
Dainichi-ji enshrines Dainichi Nyorai, the cosmic Buddha at the centre of Shingon doctrine, in a wooded precinct in rural Kōnan....
Daisen-ji
Daisen, Japan
Daisen-ji, the 29th station of the Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage, sits high on Mt. Daisen — at 1,729 meters the highest peak in the Chūgoku region....
Daiun-in
Tottori, Japan
Daiun-in in Tottori, the 33rd and final station of the Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage, is the route's manzanji — the place where pilgrim journeys complete....
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....
Dakshinkali Temple
Pharping, Bagmati Province, Nepal
In a forested ravine where two sacred streams meet, Dakshinkali Temple draws thousands of devotees to worship the fierce goddess in her most primal form....
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....
Dhakeshwari Temple, Dhaka
Dhaka, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh
In Old Dhaka, the temple that may have given the capital its name continues to function as the spiritual center of Bangladesh's Hindu community....
Dōji-dō (童子堂)
Chichibu, Japan
Dōji-dō is the twenty-second station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage — literally 'Children's Hall,' a Shingon Buzan-ha temple where Kannon has been invoked for...
Dōjō-ji
Japan
Dōjō-ji is the oldest documented temple in Wakayama Prefecture, founded in 701 CE by the monk Gien at Emperor Monmu's command....
Doric Temple of Segesta
Calatafimi Segesta, Sicily, Italy
In the hills of western Sicily, a Doric temple stands almost complete after 2,400 years, its thirty-six unfluted columns rising against wild mountains and distant sea....
Dōryū-ji (道隆寺)
Tadotsu, Tadotsu, Kagawa, Japan
Temple 77 Dōryū-ji in Tadotsu is known on the Shikoku route as the Eye-Healing Yakushi (me-naoshi Yakushi)....
Edfu
Idfu City, Aswan, Egypt
The Temple of Edfu survives as the best-preserved temple in ancient Egypt, a time capsule buried for centuries and now revealed in near-complete form....
Eifuku-ji
Japan
Eifuku-ji at Taishi-chō, Osaka, guards the tomb of Prince Shōtoku — Japan's foundational royal patron of Buddhism — alongside his mother and consort in a single circular...
Eifuku-ji (栄福寺)
Imabari, Imabari, Ehime, Japan
Eifuku-ji sits in a quiet bamboo and cedar grove on a low hill above Imabari, the 57th stop on the Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage....
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Key questions
Temple sacred-site questions
- 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 410 in the current Pilgrim Map atlas.
- Where are these temple sites located?
- Major country clusters include Japan, India, Italy, Turkey, Nepal, Egypt.
- Which traditions are represented?
- Traditions represented here include Buddhism, Hinduism, Ancient Greek and Roman, Ancient Egyptian, Ancient, Pre-Columbian.
- Can I view temple 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.