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There is an inscription about the Barsur dated back to Shaka Samvat 983 (1068 AD) in Telugu scripts. The inscription states that Mahamandleshwar Chandraditya Maharaj, who was a chief of the Nagvanshi ruler 'Dharavarsha' and was the head of the Telugu Chodd family and Amma Village, excavated a tank and built this marvelous Shiva Temple at the center of the site.
Mama Bhanja Temple is a temple in Barsur, Chhattisgarh. The temple is dedicated to God Shiva. According to a legend, the task to create this temple was given to two people who were related (Mama is maternal uncle and Bhanja is the nephew). Surprisingly, the two men were able to complete in a day and hence the temple was given this name. [1] The ...
In Hinduism, Shiva is the supreme being regarded to perform the functions of creation, preservation, as well as the destruction of the universe. [1] Hindu texts describe the worship of Shiva and the establishment of temples and shrines throughout the Indian subcontinent, commonly in the aniconic form of a lingam.
Ahichchhatra Jain temple. Ahichchhatra is believed to be the place where Parshvanatha, the 23rd Tirthankar of Jainism, attained Kevala Jnana (omniscience). The temples in Ahichchhatra are built to commemorate Parshvanatha attaining Kēvalajñāna kalyāṇaka. [15] This temple is dedicated to Parshvanatha and is major Jain pilgrimage center.
Shiv Durga Temple of Bay Area is a Hindu temple in Santa Clara, California that serves the Hindu population of the San Francisco Bay Area. [1] The temple opened in December 2012. The main deity of the temple is Goddess Durga. The temple also has idols of other deities such as Lord Ganesha, Sai Baba, Shiva Linga and Radha Krishna. The temple is ...
By the mid-1980s, between 200-300 Sikhs attended Sunday services at the temple, and in 1986, the temple was demolished to make way for a larger one. [ 5 ] The new, larger temple opened in 1996, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] with its dedication ceremony presided over by "the supreme and highest spiritual and temporal authority of the Sikh religion visiting from ...
Shiva temple Hall of the 7th-Day Adventist Aligarh, UP: India A church overnight turned into a temple adorned with a portrait of Shiva after what some Hindu groups in Asroi, near Aligarh, termed the "ghar wapasi" (reconversion) of 72 Valmikis who had become Christians in 1995. [20] Hanuman temple Evangelical prayer hall Baijnath, HP [21] India
The Sivadol or Shiva temple, built in the Shikhara architecture [7] (more specifically Ahom temple architecture), has a central tower which is said to be the tallest Shiva temple tower in India at a height of 104 feet (32 m). [1] The base of the temple measures 195 ft (59 m) in circumference. [1] The temple is built with stone and bricks.