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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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Kannō-ji
Japan
Kannō-ji stands on the slope of Kabutoyama in Nishinomiya, holding one of Japan's three foremost Nyoirin Kannon images — a Heian-period figure carved by Kūkai in 830 from...
Kannon-in
Tottori, Japan
Kannon-in in Tottori, the 32nd station of the Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage, was founded in 1632 as the Tottori-Ikeda clan's domain temple....
Kannon-in (観音院)
Ogano, Japan
Kannon-in — Shūkutsu-san Kannon-in — is the 31st station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage and the most physically demanding stop on the route....
Kannon-ji (観音寺)
Chichibu, Japan
Kannon-ji is the twenty-first station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buzan-ha temple in central Chichibu locally known as Yano-dō ('Arrow Hall')....
Kannon-ji (観音寺)
Tokushima, Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan
Kannon-ji sits in a quiet residential street in Tokushima City, where the bell tower gate marks an unexpected threshold from ordinary domestic life into a small sacred...
Kannon-ji (観音寺)
Kan'onji, Kan'onji, Kagawa, Japan
Kannon-ji shares its precinct on Mt. Kotohiki with Jinne-in at Temple 68, but the two temples have separate histories and separate identities....
Kannonshō-ji (観音正寺)
Ōmihachiman, Ōmihachiman, Shiga, Japan
Kannonshō-ji is station 32 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Shiga dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Kanshin-ji
Japan
Kanshin-ji holds one of the rare Japanese pairings where both the main hall and its principal image are National Treasures: the Heian-period Kondō and a seated Nyoirin...
Kantajeu Temple
Paltapur Union, Rangpur Division, Bangladesh
North of Dinajpur, a temple built over two generations carries approximately 15,000 terracotta tiles on its walls — each one carved with a scene from the Ramayana, the...
Kanyō-ji
Shunan, Japan
Kanyō-ji — Rokuon-zan Kanyō-ji — sits in the highland Kano basin of northern Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture....
Kasamori-ji (笠森寺)
Chōnan, Japan
Kasamori-ji is the 31st station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho — a Tendai temple in the forested hills of Chōnan, Chiba....
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,...
Katsuō-ji (勝尾寺)
Minoh, Minoh, Osaka, Japan
Katsuō-ji is station 23 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Kōyasan Shingon-shū temple in Osaka dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Kegon-ji (華厳寺)
Ibigawa, Ibigawa, Gifu, Japan
Kegon-ji is station 33 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Gifu dedicated to Jūichimen Kannon....
Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara
Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
On the banks of the Kelani River, Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara marks what tradition holds as the Buddha's third and final visit to Sri Lanka, when he settled a dispute...
Ki-mii-dera (紀三井寺)
Sa, Sa, Wakayama, Japan
Ki-mii-dera is station 2 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Kuze Kannon-shū temple in Wakayama dedicated to Jūichimen Kannon....
Kichijō-ji (吉祥寺)
Saijō, Saijō, Ehime, Japan
Kichijō-ji is the 63rd fudasho on the Shikoku 88 and the only temple on the route whose principal image is Bishamonten—Buddhist guardian-king of the north and one of the...
Kikusui-ji (菊水寺)
Chichibu, Japan
Kikusui-ji — Enmei-zan Kikusui-ji — is the 33rd station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Sōtō Zen temple in the Yoshida district of Chichibu....
Kinshō-ji (金昌寺)
Chichibu, Japan
Kinshō-ji is the fourth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Saitama, Japan....
Kirihata-ji (切幡寺)
Awa, Awa, Tokushima, Japan
Kirihata-ji rises 155 metres above the Yoshino plain on the slope of Mt. Kirihata....
Kiyama-ji (Kanji-in)
Maniwa, Japan
Kiyama-ji crowns Mt. Kiyama (430 m) in Maniwa, north of Tsuyama. Founded by Kūkai in 815 CE according to temple tradition, it is a Kōyasan Shingon-shū bekkaku honzan and...
Kiyomizu-dera (Osaka)
Japan
Distinct from the famous Kyoto Kiyomizu-dera (and from the temples of the same name in Hyōgo, Chiba, and Shimane), Osaka's Kiyomizu-dera was revived in 1640 by the priest...
Kiyomizu-dera (Yasugi)
Yasugi, Japan
Kiyomizu-dera in Yasugi, Shimane, is the 28th station of the Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage and the foremost Tendai esoteric (taimitsu) training hall in the San'in region....
Kiyomizu-dera (清水寺)
Higashiyama-ku, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, Japan
Kiyomizu-dera is station 16 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Kita-Hossō Buddhism, Saigoku Kannon devotion temple in Kyoto dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Kiyomizu-dera (清水寺)
Katō, Katō, Hyōgo, Japan
Banshu Kiyomizu-dera is station 25 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Hyogo dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Kiyomizu-dera (清水寺)
Isumi, Japan
Otowasan Kiyomizu-dera in Isumi, Chiba, is the 32nd station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho — a Tendai temple set on Otowa-yama in the forested hills of southern Bōsō....
Kiyomizu-dera Temple
Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
On the forested slopes of Mount Otowa in eastern Kyoto, a vast wooden stage juts out over the valley—built without a single nail, supported by pillars of...
Kiyotaki-ji (清滝寺)
Tosa, Tosa, Kōchi, Japan
Kiyotaki-ji is the thirty-fifth stop on the Shikoku 88, set on a hillside in Tosa City above terraced citrus groves at 137 meters....
Kiyotaki-ji (清滝寺)
Tsuchiura, Japan
Kiyotaki-ji is the 26th Bandō station, a quiet Shingon-Buzan temple on the lower slopes of Mt. Ryūgamine in rural Tsuchiura....
Kōjō-ji
Onomichi, Japan
Kōjō-ji — Chōon-zan Kōjō-ji — sits atop Mt. Chōon ('Tide-Sound Mountain') above Setoda Bay on Ikuchijima....
Kokawa-dera (粉河寺)
Kinokawa, Kinokawa, Wakayama, Japan
Kokawa-dera is station 3 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism — Tendai-Kokawa-ha, Katsuragi Shugendō tradition temple in Wakayama dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Kom Ombu
Koum Ombo City, Aswan, Egypt
The Temple of Kom Ombo stands alone in Egypt as a double temple, its perfect bilateral symmetry honoring two gods who embody opposing forces: Sobek the crocodile,...
Komyo-ji
Japan
Gobusan Kōmyō-ji crowns Mt. Gobusan in Katō, Hyōgo — a Kōyasan Shingon temple traced to 594 CE and holding an Eleven-Faced Thousand-Armed Thousand-Eyed Kannon as honzon....
Kōmyō-ji (光明寺)
Hiratsuka, Japan
Kōmyō-ji at Mount Kaname — known to villagers and mothers as Kaname Kannon — preserves a Sacred Kannon said to have been found in the sea by an ama diver in 702 CE....
Konchogsum Lhakhang, Bumthang
Pedtsheling_Tamzhing, Bumthang District, Bhutan
Konchogsum Lhakhang — the Temple of the Three Jewels — was built in the eighth century on Guru Rinpoche's instructions by Tibetan King Trisong Detsen....
Kongo-ji
Japan
Founded by Gyōki on Mount Amano in the Tenpyō era and revived in the late Heian period by the monk Akan, Amano-san Kongō-ji became known as Nyonin Kōya — Women's Kōyasan —...
Kongōchō-ji (金剛頂寺)
Muroto, Muroto, Kōchi, Japan
Kongōchō-ji crowns a wooded promontory on the western side of Cape Muroto, the second of the Muroto Sanzan triad....
Kongōfuku-ji (金剛福寺)
Tosashimizu, Tosashimizu, Kōchi, Japan
Kongōfuku-ji is the thirty-eighth stop on the Shikoku 88, set at the tip of Cape Ashizuri — the southernmost point of Shikoku....
Kongofukuji Temple, Tosashimizu
Tosashimizu, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
At the southernmost tip of Shikoku, where land yields to endless ocean, stands the temple Kobo Daishi founded after sensing the presence of Fudaraku—Kannon's Pure...
Kongojo-ji
Japan
Nagusayama Kongōjō-ji in Fukusaki, Hyōgo, traces its founding to 597 CE under the Korean monk Ekan during Empress Suiko's reign....
Kōnomine-ji (神峰寺)
Yasuda, Yasuda, Kōchi, Japan
Kōnomine-ji rests at 450 metres on Mt. Konomine, often described as the most physically demanding station on the Tosa stretch....
Konsen-ji (金泉寺)
Itano, Itano, Tokushima, Japan
Konsen-ji is Temple 3 of the Shikoku 88, in Itano, Tokushima. Pilgrims peer into a well dug by Kūkai whose water is said to look gold; a clear reflection is read as a sign...
Konzō-ji (金倉寺)
Zentsūji, Zentsūji, Kagawa, Japan
Temple 76 Konzō-ji is the birthplace of Chishō Daishi Enchin (814–891), founder of the Tendai Jimon school and fifth abbot of Enryaku-ji on Mt Hiei....
Kōon-ji (香園寺)
Saijō, Saijō, Ehime, Japan
Kōon-ji is the 61st fudasho on the Shikoku 88 and the head temple of the Shingon-shū Goki-ha sub-school....
Kōyama-ji (甲山寺)
Zentsūji, Zentsūji, Kagawa, Japan
Temple 74 Kōyama-ji stands at the foot of Mt Kōyama in Zentsūji City, where Kūkai is said to have prayed for the success of the Mannoike reservoir repair in 821 — a...
Kōzan-ji
Shimonoseki, Japan
Kōzan-ji — Kinzan Kōzan-ji — in Chōfu, Shimonoseki, holds Japan's oldest dated Zenshūyō ('Zen-style') Buddhist hall: a 1320 Butsuden, designated a National Treasure....
Kōzō-ji (高蔵寺)
Kisarazu, Japan
Kōzō-ji — known as Takakura Kannon — is the 30th station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho, set in the wooded inland hills of Kisarazu, Chiba....
Kumadani-ji (熊谷寺)
Awa, Awa, Tokushima, Japan
Kumadani-ji is Temple 8 of the Shikoku 88, in Awa, Tokushima. The 1687 Niōmon is one of the largest gates on the entire 88-temple route, designated a Tokushima Cultural...
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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.