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Temple
Temple pages bring together built sacred spaces where ritual, architecture, deity presence, lineage, and pilgrimage meet.
410 temple sacred sites. Use the country and tradition filters to narrow in.
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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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| Coverage | 410 temple sacred sites across the current atlas. |
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| UNESCO heritage | 20 UNESCO-tagged temple sites appear in this browse view. |
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The Temple of Haeinsa, Gaya-san
Hapcheon, South Gyeongsang, South Korea
Haeinsa is one of Korea's Three Jewel Temples, representing the Dharma itself. High on Mount Gayasan, this active monastery safeguards the Tripitaka Koreana, the world's...
Todaiji
Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan
In 752 CE, Emperor Shōmu consecrated a bronze Buddha of unprecedented scale—15 meters tall, cast from nearly all the copper in Japan—to bring peace to a nation wracked by...
Toji
Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
For over 1,200 years, Tō-ji has been the beating heart of Shingon Buddhism—the esoteric tradition that Kūkai brought from China in the 9th century....
Tokoin Hagino-tera
Japan
Tōkō-in — known by the affectionate name Hagi-no-tera, Bush Clover Temple — is a Sōtō Zen temple in suburban Toyonaka, Osaka....
Tongdosa
Yangsan, Yangsan, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
Tongdosa is Korea's largest monastic complex and the 'Buddha Jewel' of the country's Three Jewel Temples, built in 646 CE to enshrine relics of the historical Buddha....
Tosa Kokubun-ji (土佐国分寺)
Nankoku, Nankoku, Kōchi, Japan
Tosa Kokubun-ji holds dual identity: imperial provincial temple of ancient Tosa Province and Temple 29 of the Shikoku Pilgrimage....
Tōshun-ji (洞春寺)
Yamaguchi, Japan
Tōshun-ji — Shōshū-zan Tōshun-ji — was founded in 1572 by Mōri Terumoto as the bodhi-temple of his grandfather, the warlord Mōri Motonari....
Tungnath Temple
Tungnath, Rudraprayag district, Uttarakhand, India
Tungnath is the highest of the five Panch Kedar temples, a stone Shiva shrine set above the treeline in the Garhwal Himalayas, reached only on foot and closed to the world...
Unpen-ji (雲辺寺)
Miyoshi, Miyoshi, Tokushima, Japan
Unpen-ji sits at 927 metres on the ridge between Tokushima and Kagawa, the highest temple of the Shikoku 88 and the gateway to the Nirvana stage of the pilgrimage....
Valley Temple of Khafre
Giza, Giza, Egypt
The Valley Temple of Khafre is Egypt's best-preserved Old Kingdom temple, where priests once transformed the dead pharaoh into a divine being....
Vivekananda Rock Memorial, Kanyakumari
Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India
At the southernmost tip of India, where the Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean converge, stands the Kumari Amman Temple....
Wat Luang
Pakse, Laos
On the banks of the Se Don in Pakse, Wat Luang is among the oldest and largest temples in the city....
Wat Phousalao
Pakse, Laos
On a hill across the Mekong from Pakse, Wat Phousalao crowns its summit with a large seated golden Buddha that gazes over the city and river....
Wat Xieng Mouane
Luang Prabang, Laos
In the heart of Luang Prabang's UNESCO heritage peninsula, Wat Xieng Mouane is a mid-19th-century royal-era temple whose name means 'Melodious Sounds.' Behind its gold...
White Spring Temple
Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom
Step from daylight into darkness. The White Spring Temple occupies a Victorian well house at the base of Glastonbury Tor, where calcite-white waters have flowed for...
Yakuō-ji (薬王寺)
Minami, Minami, Tokushima, Japan
Yakuō-ji, Temple 23 of the Shikoku 88, is the canonical yakuyoke-no-tera — the misfortune-warding temple — of the pilgrimage....
Yakuri-ji (八栗寺)
Takamatsu, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan
Yakuri-ji clings to the western slope of Mt. Goken at 375 metres, the eighty-fifth temple of the Shikoku circuit....
Yasaka-ji (八坂寺)
Matsuyama, Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan
Yasaka-ji is the forty-seventh temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and one of its most layered....
Yashima-ji (屋島寺)
Takamatsu, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan
Yashima-ji crowns the mesa of Yashima, 293 metres above the Seto Inland Sea, and is the eighty-fourth temple of the Shikoku circuit....
Yokei-ji
Setouchi, Japan
Yokei-ji crowns Ueterasan, a low hill above the rice plains of Setouchi City. Founded in the eighth century and long affiliated with the Tendai school, the temple holds...
Yōkoku-ji
Japan
Yōkoku-ji — known to most Kyotoites as Yanagidani Kannon — joins three rare devotional layers in one Nishiyama mountainside: a hibutsu Eleven-faced Thousand-armed Kannon...
Yokomine-ji (横峰寺)
Saijō, Saijō, Ehime, Japan
Yokomine-ji clings to the northern slope of Mt. Ishizuchi, the highest peak in western Japan, at roughly 750 m elevation....
Yoshimine-dera (善峯寺)
Nishikyo-ku, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
Yoshimine-dera is station 20 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Kyoto dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Zenjibu-ji (禅師峰寺)
Nankoku, Nankoku, Kōchi, Japan
Zenjibu-ji rests on the cliff-edge of Hachiyō-san — Eight-Petalled Lotus Mountain — above Urado Bay....
Zenrakuji (善楽寺)
Kōchi, Kōchi, Kōchi, Japan
Zenrakuji stands beside Tosa Shrine, the province's first-ranked Shintō shrine, on ground that originally hosted a syncretic kami-Buddha precinct founded by Kūkai....
Zentsū-ji (善通寺)
Zentsūji, Zentsūji, Kagawa, Japan
Temple 75 Zentsū-ji stands on the ground where Kūkai was born in 774. Founded by him in 807 on his return from Tang China, it is the head temple of the Zentsuji-ha school...
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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.