Of every tradition. Of every land. Of every age.
Or browse by tradition · by country · by deity
Every place in Mandala offers four ways to engage — beyond visiting. Choose your path.
Service
Offer time, presence, or skill to a sacred place or community.
Explore →Practice
Take up a practice — meditation, mantra, study — guided by a tradition.
Explore →Wisdom
Read teachings, scripture, and commentary held by sacred places.
Explore →Giving
Give to upkeep, custodians, communities, and ongoing work.
Explore →A small window into the living world of sacred sites.
Hinduism, India
A revered Hindu shrine on Vishwanath Gali in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, honouring Shiva as one of the twelve Jyotirlingas of the Shaiva tradition.
, Indonesia
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.
, United Kingdom
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.
, Turkey
An Istanbul mosque housed within the former Byzantine Monastery of the Pantokrator, the finest surviving example of Middle Byzantine architecture in Constantinople.
, Singapore
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.
, Iran
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.
Baháʼí, Australia
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.
Jainism, India
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.
Sacred places organised by continent.
Sacred places have always been the meeting points of earth and heaven — where humanity remembers what it is, and what it longs for. Mandala 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 Mandala team
The newest places to join the directory.