Shikhara Journeys

The Temple Atlas

152 sanctuaries, mapped

Showing 152 of 152 temples

Region

Style

Best Month

Tour Tier

What This Atlas Holds

Three tiers, and the difference between them matters. We would rather show you the gap than paper over it.

152

Documented

Researched records with a sourced description, verified coordinates, credited photography, festivals and the best months to visit. Each has its own page.

Protected monuments mapped

From the Archaeological Survey of India's own register.

193,181

Indexed

Every temple, shrine and pagoda we can locate across Asia. A name and a position — no description, no photograph, nothing verified. This is the map's outer edge, not its content.

Where the index reaches

India 108,502Thailand 55,155Vietnam 7,331Taiwan 3,879Indonesia 3,850Malaysia 3,159Sri Lanka 1,939Bangladesh 1,428Nepal 1,345Myanmar 948Laos 731Cambodia 470

The Work

The distance between 152 and 193,181 is the whole project. Every month we take temples out of the index and give them a record: coordinates checked against independent sources, a photographer credited, a description written from something we have actually read. It is slow because verifying is slow — and a temple documented wrongly is worse than one left in the index.