Lakes (Bodies of Water)

Lakes holding sacred meaning for the peoples who live beside them, whether as the dwelling of a deity, the place of an origin story or a destination of pilgrimage. Each is a body of still inland water set within a living religious landscape. Several lie at high altitude or in mountain settings, and their shores hold temples, ritual platforms and traditional routes of circumambulation, which makes the water inseparable from the pilgrimage that surrounds it. Members placed here so far include Lake Manasarovar, Lake Titicaca, Lake Texcoco.