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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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Kurama-dera Temple
Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Rising 584 meters above Kyoto's northern edge, Mount Kurama has drawn seekers for over twelve centuries....
Kyūshō-ji (久昌寺)
Chichibu, Japan
Kyūshō-ji is the twenty-fifth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage — a Sōtō Zen temple known by its older nickname Otehan-dera, 'Hand-Seal Temple,' for the legend...
Lingaraj Temple, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, Odisha, India
Lingaraj is the architectural and devotional centre of Bhubaneswar, the Temple City of India....
Madhyamaheshwar Temple
Gaundar, Rudraprayag district, Uttarakhand, India
Madhyamaheshwar enshrines the navel of a bull-formed Shiva at roughly 3,497 metres in the Garhwal Himalayas, reached by a multi-day trek through pine forest and river...
Maegami-ji (前神寺)
Saijō, Saijō, Ehime, Japan
Maegami-ji is the 64th fudasho on the Shikoku 88 and the principal Buddhist anchor of the Mt. Ishizuchi sacred-mountain cult....
Mahabodhi Temple and Bodhi Tree, Bodh Gaya, Bihar
Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India
The Mahabodhi Temple marks where it happened—where a man sat down beneath a pipal tree and, after forty-nine days of meditation, achieved complete liberation from...
Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga Shiva Temple, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India
Mahakaleshwar is the only dakshinamukhi (south-facing) jyotirlinga among the twelve and the sole temple in the world whose daily 04:00 aarti smears the lingam with sacred...
Mahasthangarh Buddhist temples
Shibganj Upazila (Bogura), Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh
Thirteen kilometres north of Bogra, the ruins of Mahasthangarh mark the site of Pundranagara — the oldest known urban settlement in Bangladesh, dating to at least the 3rd...
Mahiyangana Raja Maha Vihara
Mahiyangana, Mahiyangana, Sri Lanka
Nine months after his enlightenment, the Buddha is said to have crossed to Sri Lanka and pacified its yaksha inhabitants at Mahiyangana, leaving behind a hair relic...
Manakamana Temple
Gorkha, Gandaki Province, Nepal
Perched at 1,300 meters in Nepal's Gorkha hills, Manakamana Temple draws hundreds of thousands of pilgrims yearly to petition the goddess Bhagwati, an incarnation of...
Mandara-ji (曼荼羅寺)
Zentsūji, Zentsūji, Kagawa, Japan
Mandara-ji is the ancestral temple of the Saeki clan, into which Kūkai was born....
Mangan-ji
Japan
Mangan-ji at Kawanishi, Hyōgo, is a Kōyasan Shingon temple founded by imperial decree of Emperor Shōmu in the Nara period....
Mangan-ji (満願寺)
Tochigi, Japan
Izurusan Mangan-ji, station 17 of the Bandō Kannon pilgrimage, sits in a karst valley north of Tochigi City....
Mani-ji
Tottori, Japan
Mani-ji is a special temple (tokubetsu reijō) of the Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage on Mt. Mani north of Tottori City....
Matsunoo-dera (松尾寺)
Maizuru, Maizuru, Kyoto, Japan
Matsunoo-dera is station 29 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon-shū Daigo-ha temple in Kyoto dedicated to Batō Kannon....
Meiseki-ji (明石寺)
Seiyo, Seiyo, Ehime, Japan
Meiseki-ji is the forty-third temple of the Shikoku 88 and one of the few stops not affiliated with Shingon....
Mii-dera
Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Mii-dera has earned its nickname—the Phoenix Temple—through seven destructions and seven risings....
Mii-dera (三井寺)
Otsu, Otsu, Shiga, Japan
Mii-dera is station 14 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism, Saigoku Kannon devotion temple in Shiga dedicated to Nyoirin Kannon....
Mimuroto-ji (三室戸寺)
Uji, Uji, Kyoto, Japan
Mimuroto-ji is station 10 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Honzan Shugen-shū temple in Kyoto dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Minamihokke-ji (Tsubosaka-dera) (南法華寺)
Takatori, Takatori, Nara, Japan
Minamihokke-ji (Tsubosaka-dera) is station 6 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buddhism — Tsubosaka temple in Nara dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Mitaki-dera (Mitaki-Kannon)
Hiroshima, Japan
Mitaki-dera — Ryūsen-zan Mitaki-ji — sits in a forested ravine 3 km from the hypocentre of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, with three named waterfalls flowing through the...
Mizuma-dera
Japan
Mizuma-dera, popularly called Mizuma Kannon, is among the most actively visited temples in southern Osaka....
Mizusawa-dera (水澤寺)
Shibukawa, Japan
Mizusawa-dera, the sixteenth station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho Kannon pilgrimage, sits on the wooded slopes below Ikaho Onsen....
Motoyama-ji (本山寺)
Mitoyo, Mitoyo, Kagawa, Japan
Motoyama-ji rises from the Mitoyo plain in Kagawa, its vermillion five-storied pagoda visible across rice fields....
Nagao-ji (長尾寺)
Sanuki, Sanuki, Kagawa, Japan
Nagao-ji is the eighty-seventh of the eighty-eight Shikoku temples — the second-to-last, set in the open Nagao district of Sanuki under an enormous camphor canopy....
Nageshwar Jyotirlinga
Dwarka, Dwarka, Gujarat, India
On a quiet stretch of Saurashtra coast seventeen kilometres north-west of Dwarka, Nageshwar stands as the tenth of the twelve Jyotirlingas — Shiva as Nagesha, the lord of...
Nago-ji (那古寺)
Tateyama, Japan
Nago-ji — Fudaraku-san Nago-ji — is the 33rd and final station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho, set on a forested mid-slope of Mt. Nago in Tateyama, Chiba....
Nakayama-dera (中山寺)
Takarazuka, Takarazuka, Hyōgo, Japan
Nakayama-dera is station 24 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buddhism — Nakayama branch temple in Hyogo dedicated to Jūichimen Kannon....
Nan'endō (Kofuku-ji) (南円堂)
Nara, Nara, Nara, Japan
Nan'endō (Kōfuku-ji) is station 9 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Hossō school temple in Nara dedicated to Fukūkenjaku Kannon....
Nankōbō (南光坊)
Imabari, Imabari, Ehime, Japan
Temple 55 of the Shikoku henro is the only one of the 88 whose name ends in 'bō' — priest's lodging — a vestige of its origin as a sub-temple of the great Bekku Ōyamazumi...
Nariai-ji (成相寺)
Miyazu, Miyazu, Kyoto, Japan
Nariai-ji is station 28 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Hashidate Shingon-shū temple in Kyoto dedicated to Shō Kannon....
Negoro-ji (根香寺)
Takamatsu, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan
Negoro-ji stands at 365 metres on the slopes of Mt. Aomine, deep in the cedar forest of the Goshikidai plateau....
Nichirin-ji
Daigo, Japan
Nichirin-ji sits on the eighth station of Mt. Yamizo, the highest peak in Ibaraki....
Nofuku-ji
Japan
Nōfuku-ji, founded by Saichō in 805 CE on his return from Tang China, is one of the oldest Tendai temples in the Hyōgo region....
Nosaka-ji (野坂寺)
Chichibu, Japan
Nosaka-ji, twelfth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, is a Rinzai Zen temple of the Nanzen-ji branch formed by the 1741 merger of an older Kannon-dō with...
Oka-dera (岡寺)
Asuka, Asuka, Nara, Japan
Oka-dera is station 7 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon-shū Buzan-ha temple in Nara dedicated to Nyoirin Kannon....
Ōkubo-ji (大窪寺)
Sanuki, Sanuki, Kagawa, Japan
Ōkubo-ji is the eighty-eighth and final temple of the Shikoku circuit, set in a deep valley at 450 metres between Mt. Yahazu and Mt. Nyotai near the Tokushima border....
Ōmi-dō (大御堂)
Tsukuba, Japan
Ōmi-dō is the 25th Bandō station and the sole institutional Buddhist successor of Tsukuba Daigongen — the syncretic Shinto-Buddhist complex that fused Kannon devotion with...
Ongaku-ji (音楽寺)
Chichibu, Japan
Ongaku-ji is the twenty-third station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage — a Rinzai Zen temple of the Nanzen-ji branch whose name means 'music.' Founded by tradition...
Onzan-ji (恩山寺)
Komatsushima, Komatsushima, Tokushima, Japan
Onzan-ji, Temple 18 of the Shikoku 88, is the 'Temple of Gratitude.' It stands at the place where Kūkai's mother, Tamayori Gozen, became one of the first women admitted to...
Osireion
Abydos, Sohag, Egypt
The Osireion is an underground structure behind the Temple of Seti I at Abydos, built as a symbolic tomb for Osiris....
Ōya-ji (大谷寺)
Utsunomiya, Japan
Ōya-ji, station 19 of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho, sits inside a natural rock-shelter overhang of Ōya tuff in Utsunomiya....
Pantheon, Rome, Italy
Rome, Lazio, Italy
The Pantheon stands as ancient Rome's most complete survival—a temple to all gods that became a church to Mary and the martyrs, preserved through continuous use for nearly...
Pashupatinath Temple
Kathmandu, Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal
Pashupatinath is Nepal's most sacred Shiva temple and the spiritual heart of the country....
Pharping Vajrayogini Temple
Pharping, Bagmati Province, Nepal
At the base of the stairs leading to Guru Rinpoche's Asura Cave, this 11th-century temple marks where the Pamtingpa brothers transmitted Vajrayogini teachings that would...
Rakuhō-ji (楽法寺)
Sakuragawa, Japan
Rakuhō-ji is the 24th Bandō station, popularly known as Amabiki Kannon — the Rain-Drawing Kannon....
Red Basilica
Turkey
The Red Basilica at Pergamon is one of the ancient world's most layered sacred spaces....
Rendai-ji
Kurashiki, Japan
Rendai-ji crowns Mt. Yuga (270 m) above Kurashiki and serves as Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage station #6....
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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 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.
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