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Temples of India
Discover the sacred temples of Bharat
A living map of India's great temples — their history, significance, and stories, all in one place.
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A living map of India's great temples — their history, significance, and stories, all in one place.
Jyotirlinga
12 temples
The twelve self-luminous lingams of light where Shiva is worshipped as the infinite.
Shakti Peethas
11 temples
The seats where the body of Sati came to earth — the Peethas of the canonical reckonings, counted as eighteen, as fifty-one, and beyond.
Char Dham
4 temples
The four divine abodes whose darshan completes a Hindu's earthly pilgrimage.
Ashtavinayaka
8 temples
The eight self-manifested shrines of Lord Ganesha among the hills of Maharashtra.
Janmabhoomi
2 temples
The sacred birthplaces where Vishnu descended to earth — Ram Lalla at Ayodhya and Bal Krishna at Mathura.
Vishnu Desam
21 temples
The abodes of Vishnu across the whole of Bharat, crowned by the 108 Divya Desams sung by the twelve Alvars.
Murugan
7 temples
Arupadai Veedu — the six battle camps of Murugan, warrior god of the Tamil hills.
Shiva Mahadev
7 temples
Devon ke Dev Mahadev — the lord of all lords, whose devotees stand in every direction of Bharat and whose great homes reach far beyond the twelve Jyotirlingas.
Devi
15 temples
Adi Shakti, the Mother of all — Mahalakshmi, Mahakali and Mahasaraswati, the three faces of one Mother — worshipped in every direction of Bharat.
Hanuman
6 temples
The Rambhakta — Mahavir, Bajrangbali, Sankat Mochan — whose whole strength is laid at Shri Rama's feet, and whose dhams stand from the Shekhawati sand to a Himalayan summit.
Devata
5 temples
The shining ones, each sovereign in his own dham — Ayyappa of the eighteen steps, Brahma at Pushkar, Shani open to the sky, and Surya the visible god.
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Somnath
Prabhas Patan, Veraval, Gujarat
The first of the twelve Jyotirlingas, rising on the Arabian Sea shore — destroyed and rebuilt through the ages as a symbol of faith's endurance.
Kashi Vishwanath
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
The golden-spired Lord of Kashi on the Ganga at Varanasi — among the most revered of all Shiva shrines.
Kedarnath
Kedarnath, Uttarakhand
One of Shiva's most revered abodes — the highest of the twelve Jyotirlingas, at 3,583 m in the Garhwal Himalaya, open only half the year.
Kamakhya
Guwahati, Assam
The great Tantric seat on Nilachal Hill above the Brahmaputra — where the Goddess is worshipped as the yoni and is believed to menstruate each year.
Jagannath Puri
Puri, Odisha
Lord Jagannath of Puri — the eastern seat of the Char Dham, famed for the world's grandest Rath Yatra.
Mahaganapati, Ranjangaon
Ranjangaon, Pune, Maharashtra
The mightiest of the eight — the Ranjangaon shrine where Shiva himself invoked Ganesha before facing the demon Tripurasura.
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