Bursa Grand Mosque
Nalbantoğlu, Bursa, Osmangazi, Türkiye Islam
A foundational monument of early Ottoman mosque architecture in the former Ottoman capital of Bursa.
The World’s Sacred Places
Sacred Places
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Sacred Places
Browse Sacred Places selected for Templestan’s public collection.
Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği
Divriği, Sivas, Türkiye Islam
A uniquely decorated thirteenth-century mosque and hospital complex in eastern central Anatolia.
Selimiye Mosque
Edirne, Merkez, Türkiye Islam
The Edirne masterpiece that Mimar Sinan regarded as his most important work.
Eyüp Sultan Mosque and Tomb
Eyüp Merkez, İstanbul, Eyüpsultan, Türkiye Islam
A major Istanbul pilgrimage mosque centered on the tomb traditionally identified with Abu Ayyub al-Ansari.
Süleymaniye Mosque
Süleymaniye, İstanbul, Fatih, Türkiye Islam
Mimar Sinan’s monumental mosque complex for Sultan Süleyman I, a defining work of classical Ottoman architecture.
Sultan Ahmed Mosque
Sultanahmet, İstanbul, Fatih, Türkiye Islam
The celebrated Blue Mosque, an early seventeenth-century Ottoman imperial mosque facing Hagia Sophia.
Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque
Sultanahmet, İstanbul, Fatih, Türkiye Islam
A sixth-century Byzantine imperial church later converted into an Ottoman mosque, museum, and again an active mosque in 2020.
Itsukushima Shrine
Miyajima-cho, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan Shinto
UNESCO-listed sea shrine on sacred Miyajima, internationally famous for its offshore torii gate.
Kinpusen-ji
Yoshinoyama, Yoshino, Yoshino District, Nara Prefecture, Japan Shugendo
Principal Shugendo temple on Mount Yoshino, famous for giant Zao Gongen images and mountain-ascetic pilgrimage.
Kumano Hongu Taisha
Hongu-cho, Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan Shinto
One of the three Kumano Sanzan grand shrines and a central destination of the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage.
Okunoin
Koyasan, Koya, Ito District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan Buddhism
One of Japan’s most sacred Buddhist pilgrimage sites, centered on the mausoleum of Kukai at Mount Koya.
Kongobu-ji
Koyasan, Koya, Ito District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan Buddhism
Head temple of Shingon Buddhism at Mount Koya, the institutional heart of the Koyasan sacred complex.