Teotihuacan
Mexico City, Mexico
Teotihuacan lies about 50 km northeast of central Mexico City, and the choice is mainly between going on your own and…
74 tickets & tours
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Largest temples in the world
Area is the hardest of these rankings to compare, because the figure measures whatever land is attached to a temple. Teotihuacan, Koh Ker and Sukhothai are counted as entire ancient cities, the Valley of the Temples at Agrigento as its archaeological park, and Nikko Futarasan Shrine as the mountain forest it owns, Mount Nantai included, so the top five run to tens of square kilometres without a single building to match.
Koh Ker
Preah Vihear, Cambodia
Koh Ker has its own ticket, sold at a checkpoint on the access road and online as a one-day pass;
12 tickets & tours
Sukhothai Historical Park
Sukhothai, Thailand
The park is divided into zones, each with its own gate and ticket bought on the spot, so there is no need to book entry…
18 tickets & tours
Nikko Futarasan Shrine
Nikko, Japan
Futarasan Shrine sells no online ticket of its own, and you do not need one.
No online ticket
Valley of the Temples, Agrigento
Agrigento, Italy
The Valley of the Temples is one of the most visited sites in Sicily, and almost every kind of visit is on offer.
26 tickets & tours
Enryaku-ji
Otsu, Japan
Entry to Enryaku-ji is by a common ticket, bought at booths in the Todo area, that covers all three precincts of the…
1 ticket or tour
Ayutthaya Historical Park
Ayutthaya, Thailand
Ayutthaya is not a fenced park with a single gate. The ruins are scattered across an island formed by three rivers and…
141 tickets & tours
Pashupatinath Temple
Kathmandu, Nepal
Foreign visitors buy a ticket at the counters on the approach to Pashupatinath, which covers the precinct around the…
35 tickets & tours
Angkor Wat
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Angkor Wat is not ticketed on its own. Every visitor needs an Angkor pass, which covers the whole archaeological park…
532 tickets & tours
Preah Vihear Temple
Preah Vihear, Cambodia
Preah Vihear is one of the most spectacular Khmer temples and one of the hardest to reach.
2 tickets & tours
My Son Sanctuary
Hoi An, Vietnam
My Son lies in a wooded valley about 40 km southwest of Hoi An, and almost everyone visits it as a half-day trip from…
213 tickets & tours
Bingling Temple Grottoes
Lanzhou, China
Bingling Temple is a site of Buddhist cave shrines in a canyon on the Yellow River, and the entry ticket is bought at…
2 tickets & tours
For a temple designed as one piece, Angkor Wat, about 1.6 square kilometres inside its moat, is the benchmark, with Preah Vihear, strung along its clifftop ridge, close behind. The largest modern entries are mosques in the Gulf: the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque in Muscat at 416,000 square metres with its grounds, then the state mosque in Doha and the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi.