Hinduism

Kantajeu Temple

Paltapur Union, Rangpur, 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...

Kauai's Hindu Monastery

Kapaʻa, Hawaii, United States

Kauai's Hindu Monastery in Kapaʻa, Hawaii, belongs within Hinduism. At Kauai's Hindu Monastery, sacred life continues through darshan at Kauai's Hindu Monastery, puja at...

Kbal Spean (River of a Thousand Lingas)

Part of Phnum Kulen

Banteay Srei, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Kbal Spean is a forest stream whose bed and banks carry carved lingas and Hindu deities, linking sacred imagery to flowing water....

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....

Koh Ker Archaeological Site

Srayang, Preah Vihear, Cambodia

Koh Ker was the tenth-century Khmer capital known as Chok Gargyar or Lingapura, with temples, settlement, roads, quarries, and an extensive sacred water system spread...

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....

Lolei

Roluos, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Lolei's four surviving brick towers were consecrated by Yasovarman I in 893 on an artificial island within the Indratataka reservoir....

Lord Murugan Statue

Part of Batu Caves Murugan Temple

Batu Caves, Selangor, 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, 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...

Mahaganpati Temple, Ranjangaon

Ranjangaon, Maharashtra, India

Mahaganpati Temple in Ranjangaon is the Ashtavinayak shrine of Ganesha in his great or expansive form....

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...

Malibu Hindu Temple

Calabasas, California, United States

Malibu Hindu Temple in Calabasas, California, belongs within Hinduism. At Malibu Hindu Temple, sacred life continues through darshan at Malibu Hindu Temple, puja at Malibu...

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...

Mannarasala Sree Nagaraja Temple

Haripad, Kerala, India

At Mannarasala, serpent veneration is carried through a sacred grove, thousands of offered images, and a hereditary priestess....

Mariamman Hindu Temple, Ho Chi Minh City

District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Mariamman Temple places a South Indian mother-goddess sanctuary within central Ho Chi Minh City....

Mayureshwar Temple, Morgaon

Morgaon, Maharashtra, India

Mayureshwar Temple at Morgaon is the customary opening and closing station of Maharashtra's Ashtavinayak pilgrimage....

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....

Mt. Gede, Java

Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia

An active volcano in the West Java highlands, Mount Gede is a kabuyutan in Sundanese belief, a sacred dwelling of ancestral guardian spirits....

Mt. Kailash

Darchen, Tibet Autonomous Region, China

Mount Kailash rises 6,638 meters from the Tibetan plateau—four sheer faces matching the four cardinal directions, standing in geometric solitude that seems more...

Mt. Lawu, Java

Karanganyar, Central Java, Indonesia

Gunung Lawu rises on the Central and East Java border, a stratovolcano named among the eighteen sacred mountains of old Java....

Mt. Rinjani

West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

Gunung Rinjani is Indonesia's second-highest volcano, sacred to both the Sasak people of Lombok and Balinese Hindus....

Mt. Salak, Java

Sukabumi, West Java, Indonesia

Gunung Salak is an eroded volcano southwest of Jakarta, sanctified in Sundanese tradition since the era of the Pajajaran kingdom....

Mt. Semeru

Lumajang, East Java, Indonesia

Gunung Semeru, called Mahameru, is the highest mountain on Java and the most sacred to Indonesian Hindus....

Muang Tam Sanctuary

Prakhon Chai, Buri Ram, Thailand

Prasat Muang Tam is a Khmer Hindu sanctuary near Phanom Rung in Buriram. Fine Arts identifies it as a community religious center dedicated to Shiva....

Muktinath Temple

Muktinath, Gandaki Province, Nepal

At 3,710 meters in Nepal's Mustang district, Muktinath Temple stands where Hindus and Buddhists have worshipped together for centuries....

Murudeshwara Shiva temple, Bhatkal Taluk, Karnataka

Bailuru, Karnataka, India

Murudeshwara stands on Kanduka Hill, a small headland projecting into the Arabian Sea on Karnataka's coast....

Nageshwar Jyotirlinga

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...

Omkareshwar Jyotir Linga Shiva temple, Omkareshwar, Madhya Pradesh

Omkareshwar, Madhya Pradesh, India

Omkareshwar is the fourth jyotirlinga and the only one located on an island. Mandhata Island sits in the Narmada — tradition holds it is shaped like the sacred syllable Om....

Parahyangan Agung Jagatkarta Temple, Java

Bogor, West Java, Indonesia

Pura Parahyangan Agung Jagatkarta stands at the foot of sacred Mount Salak near Bogor, the largest Hindu temple in West Java and second-largest in Indonesia after Pura...

Pashupatinath Temple

Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal

Pashupatinath is Nepal's most sacred Shiva temple and the spiritual heart of the country....

Phanom Rung Sanctuary

Chaloem Phra Kiat, Buri Ram, Thailand

Phanom Rung is an archaeological Shaiva sanctuary built on an extinct volcano in Buriram....

Phimeanakas

Inside Angkor Thom

Siem Reap, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Phimeanakas stands within the Royal Palace enclosure and was developed from the late tenth into the early eleventh century as a royal sacred structure....

Phnom Bakheng

Siem Reap, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Phnom Bakheng is Yasovarman I's temple mountain above the early capital of Yasodharapura and one of Angkor's major works of sacred landscape planning....

Phnom Bok

Banteay Srei, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Phnom Bok is one of the hilltop temples associated with Yasovarman I, with a triad dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma....

Phnom Da

Angkor Borei, Takeo, Cambodia

Phnom Da is the temple-bearing hill south of Angkor Borei, known for its summit sanctuary, caves, inscriptions, and sculptures associated with early Cambodian art....

Phong Nha Cave and Tiên Sư Cốc Tự

Phong Nha, Quảng Trị, Vietnam

According to official park history, Phong Nha Cave and Tiên Sư Cốc Tự join an exact river-cave identity with a living guardian-deity shrine beside its entrance....

Phra Trimurti Shrine

Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

The Phra Trimurti Shrine outside CentralWorld is a modern Bangkok worship site whose image is associated with Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva....

Po Klong Garai Towers

Phan Rang–Tháp Chàm, Khánh Hòa, Vietnam

Po Klong Garai is a Cham temple-tower complex in Phan Rang–Tháp Chàm where the deified king Po Klong Garai is honored within a Shaiva religious field....

Po Nagar Cham Towers

Nha Trang, Khánh Hòa, Vietnam

Po Nagar remains a living goddess sanctuary above the Cái River. Cham devotion to Yan Po Nagar and Vietnamese devotion to Thiên Y A Na meet there without becoming...

Po Rome Towers

Phước Hữu, Khánh Hòa, Vietnam

Po Rome Towers are a surviving Cham sanctuary in Ninh Thuận where the deified king Po Rome remains a focus of reverence....

Pô Sah Inư Towers

Phú Thủy, Lâm Đồng, Vietnam

Pô Sah Inư Towers form a surviving Cham sanctuary in Phan Thiết. Their religious roots lie in Shaiva worship, while later community memory associates the complex with...

Prambanan Temple

Bokoharjo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Rising from the Javanese plain like fingers pointing toward the divine, Prambanan is Indonesia's largest Hindu temple complex—a stone cosmos built for the Trimurti: Brahma...