Tradition guide
Hinduism
Hindu sacred geography is organized through temple networks, rivers, tirthas, pilgrimage cities, mountain shrines, deities, festivals, and living ritual practice.
77 sacred places share this lineage. Use the country and site-type filters to narrow in.
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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 | 77 Hinduism sacred places in the current atlas. |
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| UNESCO heritage | 13 UNESCO-tagged Hinduism sites appear in this browse view. |
Showing 49-77 of 77 sites in this tradition guide
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...
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...
Jain temples of Khajuraho
Jatkra, Madhya Pradesh, India
Rising from the eastern reaches of Khajuraho, these temples stand apart from their more famous neighbors....
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....
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....
Lingaraj Temple, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, Odisha, India
Lingaraj is the architectural and devotional centre of Bhubaneswar, the Temple City of India....
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...
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...
Pashupatinath Temple
Kathmandu, Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal
Pashupatinath is Nepal's most sacred Shiva temple and the spiritual heart of the country....
Pumdikot Shiva Statue, Pokhara
Pokhara, Gandaki Province, Nepal
At 1,500 meters above sea level, Nepal's second-tallest Shiva statue stands with blessing hand raised toward the Annapurna range....
Savitri Mata Mandi (Savitri Temple)
Pushkar, Rajasthan, India
Perched atop Ratnagiri Hill in Pushkar, the Savitri Mata Temple honors the first wife of Lord Brahma, who cursed her husband and merged with this mountain....
Shree Swargadwari Mandir
Swargadwari, Lumbini Province, Nepal
At 2,121 meters on a forested hilltop in western Nepal's Pyuthan District, Shree Swargadwari Mandir houses a sacred fire that has not been extinguished since 1895....
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....
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Previous pageKey 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, Nepal, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka.
- What kinds of places are included?
- Common place types include temple, hindu temple, religious, cave temple, city, sacred mountain.
- Can I map Hinduism sacred sites?
- Yes. Compare country clusters and site types first, then open individual pages for coordinates, historical context, and visitor guidance.