Tirtha Atlas

State boundaries © Bhuvan, NRSC / ISRO, Government of India

AncientEarly medievalHigh medievalLate medievalEarly modernModern○ sacred, pre-structure

The Atlas

Twenty-six centuries of sacred building

Scrub the timeline to watch temples rise from Mauryan stupas to the newest mandirs — or click any mark for history, legend, pilgrim routes, and full citations. Colour is the era of the standing structure; shape is the tradition.

3031sites

15countries

71UNESCO

Construction era

Ancientto 550 CE

Maurya · Satavahana · Gupta · Vakataka

Early medieval550 CE – 1000 CE

Pallava · Chalukya · Rashtrakuta · Pala · Sailendra

High medieval1000 CE – 1350 CE

Chola · Chandela · Hoysala · Kakatiya · Khmer · Pagan

Late medieval1350 CE – 1650 CE

Vijayanagara · Nayaka · Malla · Ayutthaya

Early modern1650 CE – 1850 CE

Maratha · Sikh · Konbaung · Rattanakosin

Modern1850 CE – today

Colonial to present · revivals & new mandirs

Tradition (shape)

Hindu

Buddhist

Jain

Sikh

Clusters

Where sites crowd, they gather into one ring carrying the exact count. The ring is split by era colour in proportion, and one small pip sits below it for every tradition inside, so a mixed group never borrows a single shape. Click a ring, or press Enter on it, to zoom in.

Keyboard

Tab walks the marks in the order they are filtered; arrow keys move faster, Home and End jump to the ends, Enter opens an entry and Escape closes it.

While time-scrubbing

A hollow mark = site already sacred, today's structure not yet raised. It fills the year construction begins.