BROKEN TEMPLESTHE SUBCONTINENT ATLAS

A GEOGRAPHY OF LOSS, SURVIVAL & RENEWAL

Sacred places.
Interrupted histories.

What was lost.
What remains.

Explore temples, gurdwaras and monasteries across the Indian subcontinent. Follow the evidence behind their damage, destruction and rebuilding.Enter the atlas
146 SOURCED DOSSIERS · 4 TRADITIONS · PRESENT-DAY BORDERSBrowse 2,289 source records ↗
THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENTAbout these borders ↗
146 PLACES. MANY HISTORIES.Across borders. Across centuries.
Map key

Destruction

Partial destruction

Damage / other loss

Attribution uncertain

Colour follows the first matching damage event. A dashed ring marks an attributed, disputed or unknown actor.
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Modern, generalized borders: Natural Earth. Dashed boundary lines indicate disputes or control lines; they do not settle sovereignty. Markers are approximate locality points. Map provenance ↗

01 / THE HISTORY

Loss is only part of the story.

Discover who is attributed responsibility, what was damaged, and the rebuilding that followed. Each episode has its own place in the timeline.

02 / THE EVIDENCE

Certainty has its limits.

Records can disagree. Dates may be approximate, actors unknown, and causes contested. Those distinctions stay visible.

Read the sources.
Examine the evidence. ↗