Tradition guide
Hinduism
Hindu sacred geography is organized through temple networks, rivers, tirthas, pilgrimage cities, mountain shrines, deities, festivals, and living ritual practice.
129 sacred places share this lineage. Use the country and site-type filters to narrow in.
Atlas summary
Hinduism sacred sites overview
Hinduism sacred sites connect places through shared lineage, ritual use, memory, and pilgrimage practice across the Pilgrim Map atlas.
Use this page to compare country clusters, common place types, UNESCO-tagged landmarks, and the map distribution before exploring individual site pages.
| Coverage | 129 Hinduism sacred places in the current atlas. |
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| UNESCO heritage | 11 UNESCO-tagged Hinduism sites appear in this browse view. |
Dates connected to Hinduism
Upcoming festivals, feast days, and pilgrimages tied to Hinduism. Add any to your calendar, or see the full observance calendar.
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Nagchandreshwar Opening (Nag Panchami)
Mon, Aug 17, 2026Observance
Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga Shiva Temple, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh - Add
Srivari Brahmotsavam
Sep 15 – Wed, Sep 23, 2026Festival
Venkateswara temple, Tirumala, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh - Add
Nashik-Trimbakeshwar Simhastha Kumbh Mela
Oct 31 – Mon, Jul 24, 2028Pilgrimage
Trimbakeshwar Jyotir Linga Shiva Temple, Trimbak, Maharashtra
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Brihadeeswara Temple, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India
In 1010 CE, the Chola emperor Rajaraja I completed a temple so vast that its tower rises 216 feet and its capstone weighs 80 tons....
Brihadeeswarar Temple
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India
The Brihadeeswarar Temple in Thanjavur, completed in 1010 CE under Rajaraja Chola I, is one of India's grandest Shiva temples and a UNESCO Great Living Chola Temple....
Budhanilkantha Temple
Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal
In a water-filled tank at the foot of Shivapuri Hill, Nepal's largest stone carving depicts Vishnu asleep on the cosmic serpent Shesha....
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 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...
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...
Chettikulangara Bhagavathy Temple, Mavelikkara, Kerala
Chettikulangara, Kerala, India
In a village west of Mavelikkara stands one of central Kerala's great goddess temples, where Bhadrakali is honoured at dawn as Saraswati, at midday as Lakshmi, and in the...
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...
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....
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....
Ellora caves, Maharashtra
Khuldabad, Maharashtra, India
Over four centuries, Buddhist monks, Hindu devotees, and Jain ascetics carved 34 temples and monasteries into a basalt cliff in western India—side by side, in the same...
Gangotri Temple, Uttarakhand
Gangotri, Uttarakhand, India
Gangotri Temple stands beside the Bhagirathi river in the Garhwal Himalaya, at the place Hindu tradition holds Ganga first touched earth....
Grishneshwar Jyotirlinga
Verul, Verul, Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar district, Maharashtra, India
Grishneshwar is the last of Shiva's twelve jyotirlingas, standing in Verul village barely a kilometre from the Ellora Caves but belonging to an entirely different order of...
Grishneswar Jyotirlinga Temple, Verul, Maharashtra
Ellora, Maharashtra, India
At Verul in the Deccan, less than a kilometre from the rock-cut monasteries of Ellora, stands the closing verse of the Dwadasha Jyotirlinga Stotram....
Group of Monuments at Hampi
Hampi, Karnataka, India
Hampi sprawls across a boulder-strewn landscape in Karnataka, its sixteen hundred monuments testifying to the Vijayanagara Empire's golden age....
Hanuman Tok
Gangtok, Sikkim, India
High in the Himalayan state of Sikkim, at 7,200 feet, a Hindu temple marks the spot where Lord Hanuman is believed to have rested during his legendary flight bearing a...
Jagannath Vishnu Temple, Puri, Odisha
Puri (M), Odisha, India
Jagannath Temple is less a monument than a living order of worship, food, service, and pilgrimage....
Janaki Mandir
Janakpur, Madhesh Province, Nepal
Janaki Mandir rises from the plains of southeastern Nepal like a vision displaced from Rajasthan or Mughal India, its white marble facade and latticed turrets unlike...
Jeshoreshwari Kali Shaktipeeth Temple
Shyamnagar, Khulna Division, Bangladesh
Near the edge of the Sundarbans in southwestern Bangladesh, the Jeshoreshwari Kali Temple marks the spot where the palm of Goddess Sati's hand is believed to have fallen....
Kadalekalu Ganesha Temple, Hampi, Karnataka
Hampi, Karnataka, India
On the boulder-strewn slopes of Hemakuta Hill, the Vijayanagara sculptors carved their devotion into a single massive granite boulder....
Kakatiya Rudreshwara Ramappa Temple, Telangana
Palampet, Telangana, India
Rising from the Telangana countryside on a star-shaped platform, Ramappa Temple stands as the pinnacle of Kakatiya dynasty architecture....
Kalahasteeswarar Temple, Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu
Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India
The Kalahasteeswarar Temple in Kumbakonam is considered equivalent to the renowned Srikalahasti Temple near Tirupati, earning it the name Then Kalahasti, Southern...
Kalinchowk Bhagwati Temple, Nepal
Dolakha, Bagmati Province, Nepal
At 3,842 meters, Kalinchowk Bhagwati Temple sits where the earth meets the sky, snow-dusted peaks stretching to the horizon....
Kalpeshwar temple, Uttarakhand
Urgam, Uttarakhand, India
Kalpeshwar is the fifth and final shrine of the Panch Kedar, a small stone temple built into a cave in Uttarakhand's Urgam Valley where Shiva's jata, his matted locks, are...
Kankalini Temple
Bhardaha, Madhesh Province, Nepal
Standing five stories tall beside the Mahendra Highway in Nepal's eastern Terai, Kankalini Temple is one of the most prominent Shakti shrines in the Saptari District....
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...
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,...
Kathmandu Valley
Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal
The Kathmandu Valley is a sacred landscape unlike any other on Earth. Seven UNESCO World Heritage monument zones hold temples, stupas, and shrines where Hindu and Buddhist...
Kedarnath Temple, Uttarakhand
Kedarnath, Uttarakhand, India
Kedarnath Temple stands at 3,583 metres in the Garhwal Himalayas, the highest of the twelve Jyotirlingas and one of Uttarakhand's four Char Dham sites....
Lake Gosainkunda
Rasuwa, Bagmati Province, Nepal
At 4,380 meters in Langtang National Park, Lake Gosainkunda gleams like mercury among the peaks....
Lingaraj Temple, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, Odisha, India
Lingaraj is the architectural and devotional centre of Bhubaneswar, the Temple City of India....
Lord Murugan Statue
Batu Caves, Malaysia
Rising 42.7 metres in gold at the base of the 272 steps to Batu Caves, this colossal figure of Lord Murugan was the tallest Murugan statue in the world from its 2006...
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...
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...
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...
Mt. Abang
Abang Batu Dinding, Bali, Indonesia
Rising on the eastern rim of the Batur caldera, Mount Abang is Bali's third-highest mountain and one of its sacred peaks, in legend a fragment of the cosmic Mahameru...
Mt. Agung
Kecamatan Kubu, Bali, Indonesia
Mount Agung is the highest point in Bali and, in Balinese cosmology, the dwelling of the gods and the island's Mount Meru, the axis of the universe....
Mt. Batur
Bangli, Bali, Indonesia
An active volcano rising from a sacred crater lake, Mount Batur is the second holiest mountain in Bali and the divine source of the island's water....
Mt. Bromo, Java
Cemoro Lawang, East Java, Indonesia
An active cone rising from a vast volcanic Sea of Sand, Mount Bromo, named for Brahma, is the sacred mountain of the Tenggerese, a Hindu people of East Java....
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Key questions
Hinduism sacred-site questions
- What are Hinduism sacred sites?
- Hinduism sacred sites are places connected by shared lineage, practice, memory, ritual use, or pilgrimage tradition.
- Where can I find Hinduism sacred sites?
- The strongest country clusters in this guide include India, Indonesia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Cambodia.
- What kinds of places are included?
- Common place types include temple, hindu temple, religious, cave temple, city, city and municipality.
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