Hinduism

Prasat Krahom at Koh Ker

Inside Prasat Thom and Prang

Srayang, Preah Vihear, Cambodia

Prasat Krahom is the red-brick sanctuary within the main Prasat Thom sequence and is associated in the nomination record with a monumental image of five-faced, ten-armed...

Prasat Kravan

Siem Reap, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Prasat Kravan is a row of five brick towers whose interior brick bas-reliefs include rare monumental images of Vishnu and Lakshmi....

Prasat Neang Khmau at Koh Ker

Inside Koh Ker Archaeological Site

Srayang, Preah Vihear, Cambodia

Prasat Neang Khmau is a solitary laterite sanctuary at Koh Ker whose darkened fabric gives the modern name 'Black Lady.' The shrine belongs to Koh Ker's Shaiva landscape...

Prasat Sa Kamphaeng Yai

Uthumphon Phisai, Si Sa Ket, Thailand

Prasat Sa Kamphaeng Yai is a Khmer-period sanctuary enclosed within the grounds of a present Buddhist temple in Si Sa Ket....

Prasat Thom and Prang

Inside Koh Ker Archaeological Site

Srayang, Preah Vihear, Cambodia

Prasat Thom is Koh Ker's principal axial temple complex, culminating in the seven-tiered Prang that carried the royal Shiva linga Tribhuvanesvara....

Pre Rup

Siem Reap, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Pre Rup was constructed under Rajendravarman II and dedicated to Shiva in 961, combining brick sanctuaries with laterite and sandstone platforms....

Preah Ko

Roluos, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Preah Ko is Indravarman I's six-tower ancestral temple at Hariharalaya, dedicated to royal predecessors and centered on Shiva under the name Paramesvara....

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....

Pura Luhur Lempuyang, Bali, Indonesia

Sega, Bali, Indonesia

Pura Penataran Agung Lempuyang sits on the middle slope of Mount Lempuyang in East Bali, the principal gathering temple of one of the island's oldest and holiest complexes....

Pura Tirta Empul Temple

Malet Seri Batu, Bali, Indonesia

Pura Tirta Empul is one of Bali's principal tirta (holy water) temples and a continuously active Balinese Hindu sanctuary at Tampaksiring....

Puthia Rajbari Temple complex

Puthia, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Twenty-three kilometres east of Rajshahi, the Puthia complex holds Bangladesh's largest concentration of historic Hindu temples — including the country's largest Shiva...

Rudranath Temple

Gopeshwar area, Uttarakhand, India

Rudranath is the fourth of the Panch Kedar temples, holding a self-manifested rock face of Shiva deep in a Garhwal Himalayan forest, reached only by a multi-day trek...

Sambor Prei Kuk

Prasat Sambour, Kampong Thom, Cambodia

Sambor Prei Kuk preserves the temple zone of ancient Ishanapura, with 186 fired-brick temples and an adjoining moated city, causeways, and river connections....

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 Ananthapadmanabha Temple, Kudupu

Mangaluru, Karnataka, India

Shree Ananthapadmanabha Temple at Kudupu, near Mangaluru, is an active Hindu temple dedicated to Anantha Padmanabha, whom the temple identifies as a form of Vishnu....

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....

Shri Amarnath Shiva Cave, Kashmir

Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Shri Amarnath is the rare Shaiva shrine where the deity is not represented but literally manifests, year after year, as a column of ice that forms and dissolves with the...

Shri Chakreshwari Devi Temple (Sharika Mata Temple)

Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Perched atop Hari Parbat in Srinagar, Sharika Mata Temple houses a Svayambhu Sri Chakra—a self-manifested sacred geometric form on natural rock that Tantric practitioners...

Shri Krishna Janmasthan Temple

Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India

Shri Krishna Janmasthan Temple is a living sacred place in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh....

Si Thep Ancient Town

Si Thep, Phetchabun, Thailand

Si Thep is a UNESCO-inscribed serial cultural property whose moated twin town, Khao Klang Nok monument, and Khao Thamorrat cave document Dvaravati religious exchange....

Siddhivinayak Temple, Siddhatek

Siddhatek, Maharashtra, India

Siddhivinayak Temple at Siddhatek is the Ashtavinayak shrine of Ganesha in his Siddhivinayak form, set by the Bhima River in Ahilyanagar district....

Somnath Jyotir Linga Shiva Temple, Somnath, Gujarat

Veraval, Gujarat, India

Somnath is the Adi Jyotirlinga — the first in the canonical sequence of twelve — standing on the Saurashtra coast where Chandra the moon-god is said to have installed it....

Sri Maha Mariamman Temple

Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

Sri Maha Mariamman Temple, also called Wat Khaek, is a living Tamil Hindu sanctuary in Bangkok's Silom district....

Sri Mahalingaswamy Temple

Priranavidagam, Tamil Nadu, India

At Tiruvidaimarudur, a self-manifested Shiva lingam has drawn pilgrims for over two millennia....

Sri Velayuthar Temple

Part of Batu Caves Murugan Temple

Batu Caves, Selangor, Malaysia

At the top of the 272 steps, inside the vast limestone Temple Cave at Batu Caves, stands the Sri Velayuthar shrine, the presiding Murugan shrine of Malaysia's foremost...

Sri Venkateswara Temple

Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, United States

Sri Venkateswara Temple in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, belongs within Hinduism. At Sri Venkateswara Temple, sacred life continues through darshan at Sri Venkateswara Temple,...

Ta Keo

Siem Reap, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Ta Keo, originally Hemaśṛṅgagiri, was begun under Jayavarman V as a five-towered Shaiva temple mountain and remained unfinished after work continued under later rulers....

Thillai Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu

Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India

Chidambaram is the temple where Shiva is held to have performed the Ananda Tandava, the dance of bliss....

Thrikkakara Vamanamoorthy Temple

Thrikkakara, Kerala, India

Onam is not only a statewide harvest celebration. At Thrikkakara it remains temple worship: Vamana and Mahabali are honored together, ten days of ritual culminate on...

Trimbakeshwar Jyotir Linga Shiva Temple, Trimbak, Maharashtra

Trimbak, Maharashtra, India

Trimbakeshwar is the tenth jyotirlinga and the only one with a three-faced lingam — Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva together....

Tungnath Temple

Tungnath, 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...

Vaidyanath Jyotir Linga and Jai Durga Shakti Pitha, Deoghar, Jharkhand

Deoghar, Jharkhand, India

Baidyanath Dham is the ninth of the twelve jyotirlingas, the only one understood as Shiva-the-physician, and the only complex where a jyotirlinga and a Shakti Pitha...

Varadvinayak Temple, Mahad

Mahad, Maharashtra, India

Varadvinayak Temple at Mahad in Khalapur taluka is one of Maharashtra's eight Ashtavinayak shrines....

Vat Phou

Nongsa, Champasak, Laos

Below a mountain crowned with a natural linga-shaped rock, the ruined sanctuary of Vat Phou climbs the hillside above the Mekong plain in southern Laos....

Venkateswara temple, Tirumala, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh

Tirumala, Andhra Pradesh, India

Tirumala Venkateswara Temple rises on the Seven Hills of Andhra Pradesh as the most visited religious site on Earth....

Vighneshwar Temple, Ozar

Ojhar, Maharashtra, India

Vighneshwar Temple at Ozar is an active Ashtavinayak shrine dedicated to Ganesha as Vighneshwar or Vighnahar, the lord and remover of obstacles....

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 Si Sawai

Mueang Kao, Sukhothai, Thailand

Wat Si Sawai preserves three Lopburi-style prangs and evidence of changing religious use....