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Sites sacred to Hinduism, among them the great temple towns of the south, the Himalayan shrines of the Char Dham, the holy city of Varanasi, and the river confluence of the Kumbh Mela.

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What Defines This Grouping
Tirthas - crossing-places between the human and the divine: rivers and their confluences, sacred cities, mountain shrines and temple complexes. They are organised into several named, enumerated sets that overlap rather than nest, among them the four Dhams, the twelve Jyotirlingas, the seven sacred cities and the four Kumbh Mela sites. No single list is the list. 2
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Whose Classification This Is
The enumerated sets are Puranic, not modern: the pilgrimage lists are set out in the mahatmya literature of the Puranas and elaborated in later digests, and different sectarian traditions promote different lists. 3
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The holy places of Hinduism

This group gathers the sacred sites of Hinduism, whose sacred geography is exceptionally rich: holy rivers and their confluences, sacred cities, mountain shrines, and vast temple complexes, many the goal of pilgrimages performed for centuries. The land itself is mapped as a network of tirthas, crossing-places between the human and divine.

The browser will find the great pilgrimage cities and temples, the sacred rivers led by the Ganges, and the sites bound to particular deities and epics. The entries describe each place's deity, mythology and pilgrimage tradition, noting the sectarian traditions attached to them.

All Hindu Sites
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Amarnath Cave

Hindu Sites

Angkor Wat

Hindu Sites

Badrinath

Hindu Sites

Dwarkadhish Temple, Dwarka

Hindu Sites

Gangotri

Hindu Sites

Guruvayur

Hindu Sites

Jagannath Temple, Puri

Hindu Sites

Kashi Vishwanath Temple

Hindu Sites

Kedarnath

Hindu Sites

Konark Sun Temple

Hindu Sites

Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga Temple

Hindu Sites

Meenakshi Amman Temple

Hindu Sites

Mount Kailash

Hindu Sites

Pashupatinath

Hindu Sites

Prambanan

Hindu Sites

Ramanathaswamy Temple, Rameswaram

Hindu Sites

Sabarimala

Hindu Sites

Shri Sai Baba Temple, Shirdi

Hindu Sites

Siddhivinayak Temple, Mumbai

Hindu Sites

Somnath Temple

Hindu Sites

Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple

Hindu Sites

The Kathmandu Valley

Hindu Sites

Tirumala Tirupati Venkateswara Temple

Hindu Sites

Triveni Sangam and the Kumbh Mela

Hindu Sites

Vaishno Devi

Hindu Sites

Varanasi

Hindu Sites

Yamunotri

Hindu Sites
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. An Introduction to Hinduism
Gavin Flood, Cambridge University Press, 1996View the Source
3. A Survey of Hinduism
Klaus K. Klostermaier, State University of New York Press, 2007View the Source
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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