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The World’s Sacred Places

Sacred Places

Discover a curated guide to significant sacred places, pilgrimage traditions, architecture, documented history and practical visitor information across cultures and faith traditions.

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Sacred Places

Browse Sacred Places selected for Templestan’s public collection.

Quan Cong Temple, Hoi An

Hội An, Đà Nẵng, Vietnam Vietnamese folk religion

A major Chinese-Vietnamese shrine dedicated to Quan Công in Hoi An Ancient Town.

Quan Công / Guan Yu

Tay Thien National Mother Temple

Tam Đảo / Tây Thiên, Phú Thọ, Vietnam Vietnamese folk religion

A revered mountain shrine to the National Mother in the Tây Thiên pilgrimage landscape.

Quốc Mẫu Tây Thiên / Lăng Thị Tiêu

Thien Hau Temple, Cho Lon

Chợ Lớn, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Vietnamese folk religion

A major Chinese-Vietnamese shrine dedicated to the sea goddess Mazu.

Thiên Hậu / Mazu

Ba Trieu Temple

Hậu Lộc, Thanh Hóa, Vietnam Vietnamese folk religion

A nationally recognised shrine commemorating the historic resistance heroine Lady Triệu.

Bà Triệu (Lady Triệu)

Tran Temple, Nam Dinh

Nam Định, Ninh Bình, Vietnam Vietnamese folk religion

A royal ancestral temple complex and important spring festival destination.

Trần dynasty kings

King Le Dai Hanh Temple

Hoa Lư, Ninh Bình, Vietnam Vietnamese folk religion

A historic royal shrine commemorating the Early Lê ruler at the ancient capital of Hoa Lư.

Lê Đại Hành

Phu Day Temple Complex

Vụ Bản (former Nam Định), Ninh Bình, Vietnam Vietnamese folk religion

One of Vietnam’s foremost centres of Mother Goddess worship, especially devotion to Liễu Hạnh.

Thánh Mẫu Liễu Hạnh