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The idol deified in the temple is of black colour and 75 centimetres (30 inches) in height. It is located in Bhelapur about 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) from the centre of Varanasi city and 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) from the Benares Hindu University. It belongs to the Digambar sect of Jainism and is a holy tirtha or pilgrimage centre for Jains.
Raja Chait Singh of Benares State The Maharaja's Fort and palace in Ramnagar Maharaja of Benares with his courtiers in the 1870s. Banaras State [1] was an independent state and later princely state comprising the family domains of the Maharaja of Benares—under the East India Company rule, and the British Raj—that from 1911 to 1948 was recognized as a princely state.
Banaras Hindu University (pronunciation ⓘ) (BHU), formerly Benares Hindu University, [6] is a collegiate, central, and research university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, and founded in 1916.
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.
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This temple is located in Jeevandeep Public School campus, Baralalpur, Varanasi, India. [17] There are around 150 million Bhojpuriyas in the world and they give Bhojpuri language the same status as their mother. It is one of the temples in the world for worshipping a language as a god or goddess. [18]
Located on the banks of the holy river Ganges, Varanasi is regarded as among the holiest of the Hindu cities. The Kashi Vishwanath Temple is widely recognised as one of the most important places of worship in the Hindu religion, because the it holds the jyotirlinga of Shiva Vishveshwara, or Vishvanath .