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Four pathways. One sacred journey.
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Seva सेवा
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A small window into the living world of sacred sites.
HinduismKashi Vishwanath Temple
· India · temple
A revered Hindu shrine on Vishwanath Gali in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, honouring Shiva as one of the twelve Jyotirlingas of the Shaiva tradition.
HinduismPrambanan Temple
· Indonesia · temple
A ninth-century Hindu temple compound in the Special Region of Yogyakarta on southern Java, Indonesia, dedicated to the Trimurti of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.
ChristianityYork Minster
· United Kingdom · church
The Anglican cathedral of York, seat of the Archbishop of York and a Gothic masterpiece preserving the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in the world.
IslamZeyrek Mosque
· Turkey · mosque
An Istanbul mosque housed within the former Byzantine Monastery of the Pantokrator, the finest surviving example of Middle Byzantine architecture in Constantinople.
SikhismCentral Sikh Temple
· Singapore · gurdwara
The Central Sikh Gurdwara of Singapore — first established in 1912 and now housed in its purpose-built sanctuary at Towner Road in Kallang since 1986 — one of the seven gurdwaras of the city-state.
ZoroastrianismAspakhu Fire Temple
· Iran · shrine
A Sasanian-period Zoroastrian fire temple in the village of Aspakhu in Iran's North Khorasan province, recognised as a protected Iranian national heritage site.
BaháʼíSydney Bahá'í Temple
· Australia · temple
The Bahá'í House of Worship of Sydney, Australia, completed in 1961 in the northern suburb of Ingleside and honoured as the Mother Temple of the Antipodes.
JainismHutheesing Jain Temple
· India · temple
Hutheesing Jain Temple in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, is a nineteenth-century Shvetambara shrine dedicated to Dharmanatha, the fifteenth Tirthankara, and one of the most celebrated Jain temples in western India.
By Tradition
Sacred places from every living tradition.
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Sacred places have always been the meeting points of earth and heaven — where humanity remembers what it is, and what it longs for. Adisthan exists to ensure that every such place — temple, mosque, church, gurdwara, ashram, shrine — can be found by the seeker who needs it. We are a free, community-driven directory, operated with reverence, open to every tradition. Welcome.
— The Adisthan team
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