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Temples

19 temples

Changu Narayan Temple

Bhaktapur District, Nepal

Deity: Vishnu

Founded: 325 CE

Changu Narayan is an ancient Hindu temple, located on a hilltop of Changu in Changunarayan Municipality of Bhaktapur District, Nepal. The temple was built in the 4th century AD and is one of the oldest Hindu temples in Nepal. The temple is dedicated to Lord Vishnu, one of three principal deities in Hinduism. The temple was recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979.

Chennakesava Temple

Belur, India

Deity: Vishnu

Founded: 1117

The Chennakeshava Temple, also referred to as the Keshava, Kesava or Vijayanarayana Temple, is a 12th-century Hindu temple in the Hassan district of Karnataka, India. It was commissioned by King Vishnuvardhana in 1117 CE, on the banks of the Yagachi River in Belur, an early Hoysala Empire capital. The temple was built over three generations and took 103 years to finish. It was repeatedly damaged and plundered during wars, repeatedly rebuilt and repaired over its history. It is located 35 km from Hassan city and about 220 km from Bengaluru.

Badrinath Temple

Badrinath, India

Deity: Vishnu

Badarinath Temple, also known as Badarinarayana Temple, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu. It is located in the town of Badrinath in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, India. The temple is one of the 108 Divya Desams, sacred to Vaishnavism, where Vishnu is worshipped as Badrinath. Due to extreme weather conditions in the Himalayas, the temple is open for six months each year, from late April to early November. It is one of the most visited pilgrimage centres of India, having recorded 2.8 million visits in just 2 months in 2022. It is one of the Char Dham pilgrimage sites.

Jagdish Temple

Udaipur, India

Deity: Vishnu

Founded: 1651

Jagdish Temple is a large Hindu temple in the middle of Udaipur in Rajasthan, just outside the royal palace. It has been in continuous worship since 1651. A big tourist attraction, the temple was originally called the temple of Jagannath Rai but is now called Jagdish-ji. It is a major monument in Udaipur.

Tirta Empul Temple

Tampaksiring, Indonesia

Deity: Vishnu

Tirta Empul temple is a Hindu Balinese water temple located near the town of Tampaksiring, Bali, Indonesia. The temple compound consists of a petirtaan or bathing structure, famous for its holy spring water, where Balinese Hindus go to for a ritual purification called Melukat. The temple pond has a spring which gives out fresh water regularly, which Balinese Hindus consider to be holy or amritha. Tirta Empul which means holy spring that arises from the ground.

Thousand Pillar Temple

Hanamkonda district, India

Deity: Shiva, Vishnu, Surya

The Thousand Pillar Temple or Rudreswara Swamy Temple is a historical Hindu temple located in the city of Hanamakonda, Telangana, India. It is dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu and Surya. The Thousand Pillar Temple, along with the Warangal Fort and the Kakatiya Kala Thoranam were added to the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Sahastra Bahu Temples

Udaipur district, India

Deity: Vishnu

The Sahasra Bahu temples or Sasbahu Temples, at Nagda, Rajasthan, are a pair of late 10th-century Hindu temples dedicated to Virabhadra. They share a platform, facing the temple tank, and are similar in style, but one is rather larger than the other. The larger one is surrounded by ten subsidiary shrines, the smaller by four; only the bases remain of some of these. The temples have many of the characteristics of slightly later Māru-Gurjara architecture but lack others, especially in the plan and exterior sculpture.

Kiradu temples

Barmer district, India

Deity: Shiva, Vishnu

The Kiradu temples are a group of ruined Hindu temples located in the Barmer district of Rajasthan, India. Kiradu town is located in the Thar Desert, about 35 km from Barmer and 157 km from Jaisalmer.

Sathyamurthi Perumal Temple

Pudukkottai district, India

Deity: Vishnu

Sathyamurthi Perumal Temple in Thirumayam, a panchayat town in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu. Constructed in the Dravidian style of architecture, the temple is glorified in the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, the early medieval Tamil canon of the Alvar saints from the 6th–9th centuries CE. It is one of the 108 Divya Desams dedicated to Vishnu, who is worshipped as Sathyamurthi Perumal and his consort Lakshmi as Ujeevana Thayar.

Shri Kalyan Temple

Tonk district, India

Deity: Vishnu

Shri Diggi Kalyan Ji Temple is a Hindu temple to Vishnu in Diggi town of Malpura tehsil, Tonk district, Rajasthan, India.