Pilgrimage circuits, temple towns, and sacred journeys.
Bhabanipur Shakti Peetha, also known as Aparna Devi Temple, near Sherpur, Bogra district, Bangladesh, is one of the classical 51 Shakti Peethas and one of seven…
Chattal Bhavani Shakti Peetha, also called Bhavani Shaktipeeth, in Sitakunda on the Mandakini river, Chittagong district, Bangladesh, is one of the classical 51…
The Dakshayani Shakti Peetha, also called Manasa Shakti Peeth, on the banks of Lake Manasarovar near Mount Kailash in Tibet, is one of the classical 51 Shakti P…
Doleshwar Mahadev Temple, in Suryavinayak, Bhaktapur, roughly 20 km from Kathmandu, is devotionally regarded as the "head" counterpart to Kedarnath in Uttarakha…
Guhyeshwari Temple, on the southern bank of the Bagmati river about 1 km east of the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, is one of the classical 51 Shakti…
Hinglaj Mata Temple, also known as Hinglaj Devi, Hingula Devi, or Nani Mandir, is a remote cave shrine on the Makran coast in Lasbela district, Balochistan, Pak…
Jeshoreshwari Kali Temple, in Ishwaripur village, Satkhira district, Bangladesh, near the Sundarbans, is one of the classical 51 Shakti Peethas and one of seven…
The Shri Shri Mahalakshmi Bhairabi Griba Maha Peetha, in Jainpur village near Sylhet, Bangladesh, is one of the classical 51 Shakti Peethas and one of seven suc…
Mithila Shakti Peetha, also known as Uma Devi Temple, in Janakpur, Nepal, near the Bihar border, is one of the classical 51 Shakti Peethas, traditionally markin…
Mount Kailash (Kailash Parvat), rising to 6,638 m in the remote Ngari Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region, is among the most multi-religiously sacred moun…
Muktinath ("Lord of Liberation") is an ancient temple in the Muktinath Valley of Mustang, Nepal, at the foot of the Thorong La pass. Standing at approximately 3…
Nagapooshani Amman Temple, on the island of Nainativu near Jaffna, Sri Lanka, is one of the classical 51 Shakti Peethas, traditionally marking the spot where th…
"Panch Kailash" (five Kailashes) is a devotional grouping of five Himalayan peaks across Tibet and northern India, each independently regarded as a sacred abode…
Pashupatinath Temple, on the banks of the sacred Bagmati River in Kathmandu, is among the oldest and most significant Hindu temple complexes in South Asia, and…
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Sharada Peeth, in the Neelum Valley of Pakistan-administered Azad Jammu and Kashmir, is a ruined temple and, historically, one of the most important centres of…
Sugandha Shakti Peetha, in Shikarpur village on the Sugandha river near Barisal, Bangladesh, is one of the classical 51 Shakti Peethas and one of seven such sit…
