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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....
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....
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...
Biyun Temple, Baihe
Baihe, Tainan City, Tainan, Taiwan
Halfway up Pillow Mountain in the volcanic Guanziling hills, Biyun Temple has sheltered a Guanyin statue carried from Fujian since the turn of the eighteenth century....
Bodai-ji
Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Bodai-ji is station bangai-bodai-ji on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buddhism, Kazan-in branch temple in Hyogo dedicated to Kannon....
Boku'un-ji
Yokoze, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Boku'un-ji is the sixth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Yokoze, Saitama....
Bongamsa Temple, Mungyeong
Mungyeong, Mungyeong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea
Access is restricted: Bongamsa is normally closed to visitors and, according to Mungyeong's official information, opens to the public only on Buddha's Birthday....
Bongeunsa Temple
Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
Bongeunsa faces one of Seoul’s most intensely commercial districts, but its identity is not simply “calm beside skyscrapers.” The temple preserves worship, a major...
Bongjeongsa Temple
Andong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea
Bongjeongsa rests below Mount Cheondeung near Andong, its compact courts holding both monastic life and some of Korea’s earliest surviving wooden architecture....
Bongnimsa Temple Site, Changwon
Changwon, Changwon, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
Bongnimsa Temple Site, Changwon is a protected archaeological temple site with relocated monuments in Changwon, South Korea....
Bongwonsa Temple
Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
Bongwonsa rests on Ansan’s slope above western Seoul and serves as a center of the Taego Order....
Boriam Hermitage
Namhae, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
Boriam clings high on Geumsan above the islands and channels of Namhae. Its sacred identity is specific: Korean sources place it among the country’s foremost Gwaneum...
Borimsa Temple, Jangheung
Jangheung, Jangheung, Jeollanam-do, South Korea
Borimsa Temple, Jangheung is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Jangheung, Jangheung, Jeollanam-do, South Korea, not as a route label or nearby point of...
Borobudur
Desa Borobudur, Central Java, Indonesia
Rising from the Kedu Plain of Central Java, Borobudur is the world's largest Buddhist monument—a three-dimensional mandala carved in volcanic stone....
Boudhnath (Boudha)
Gokarneshwar Municipality, Bagmati Province, Nepal
Rising 36 meters above Kathmandu's northeastern sprawl, Boudhanath Stupa is one of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world and the most sacred Tibetan Buddhist site...
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....
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....
Buddha Dhatu Jadi
Bandarban, Chattogram, Bangladesh
On a sixty-metre hill above Bandarban, a golden temple rises from the green canopy of the Chittagong Hill Tracts....
Buddhapadipa Temple
London, England, United Kingdom
Buddhapadipa Temple belongs among the significant multi-faith places of England. The sacred frame at Buddhapadipa Temple comes from Buddhism....
Buġibba Temple
St. Paul's Bay, Malta
Buġibba Temple is Malta's most improbable sacred site: a Tarxien-phase megalithic temple from c....
Bulguksa Temple
Gyeongju-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea
Bulguksa Temple rises on the slopes of Mount Tohamsan as a physical theology—Korean Buddhism made visible in stone....
Buseoksa Temple
Yeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea
Buseoksa Temple rises in measured terraces on Bonghwangsan above Yeongju. Founded in the Silla period and closely associated with the monk Uisang, the active monastery...
Butsumoku-ji
Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Butsumoku-ji is the forty-second temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and one of its most distinctive: a Shingon temple where the principal image was carved from a camphor...
Buttsū-ji
Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture, 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-in
Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Amida’s Pure Land reflected in the waters before Phoenix Hall. Byōdō-in remains an active Pure Land Buddhism temple....
Byodo-In Temple
Kaneohe, Hawaii, United States
Byodo-In Temple in Kaneohe, Hawaii, belongs within Buddhism. At Byodo-In Temple, sacred life continues through meditation at Byodo-In Temple, chanting at Byodo-In Temple,...
Byōdō-ji
Anan, Tokushima Prefecture, 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...
Cantonese Assembly Hall
Hội An, Da Nang, Vietnam
Hội An's Cantonese Assembly Hall was built as a community and worship space. The municipal heritage record dates it to 1885 and notes that its dedications changed: Thiên...
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, 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, Chattogram, Bangladesh
At 1,020 feet above the Chittagong coast, Chandranath Temple commands the highest point on the shoreline....
Changhua Confucius Temple
Changhua City, Changhua County, Changhua County, Taiwan
No incense haze, no idols, no deity to petition — Changhua Confucius Temple holds a different kind of quiet....
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...
Chiayi City God Temple
Chiayi City, Chiayi City, Taiwan
Chiayi's City God Temple has stood since 1715 as the city's spiritual magistrate's office, its resident deity the only county-level City God in Taiwan ever elevated by...
Chiba-dera
Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Chiba-dera — also read Senyō-ji — is the 29th station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho and Chiba City's oldest temple....
Chih Nan Temple
Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
High on a forested ridge in Taipei's Wenshan District, Chih Nan Temple is dedicated to Lü Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals of Taoism....
Chikurin-ji
Kōchi, Kochi Prefecture, 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...
Chintamani Temple
Theur, Maharashtra, India
Chintamani Temple at Theur is one of Maharashtra's eight Ashtavinayak shrines, where Ganesha is worshipped as Chintamani Vinayaka....
Chion-in
Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Nembutsu carried through the head temple of Honen’s Jōdo school. Chion-in remains an active Jōdo Buddhism temple....
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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.
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.