Temples in India State Features/facts
Lord Venkateswara Andhra The temple on Tirumala hills is also known as Tirupathi Balaji
Temple Pradesh temple. It is also called a temple of seven hills.
The temple is in Dravidian Architecture style.
Mahabodhi Temple Bihar It is a Buddhist temple.
The Central Tower Of Mahabodhi is 180 feet tall i.e. 54 metres.
It is one of the oldest brick structures. The brickwork depicts
the life of Buddha.
It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Somnath Temple Gujarat It is lso known as Deo Patan.
It is one of the 12 jyotirlinga shrines of Lord Shiva.
There is no land in between seashores from Somnath temple
to Antarctica.
Constructed in Chalukyan style.
1947 – Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel ordered the reconstruction of
the temple that completed in 1951.
Dwarkadhish Temple Gujarat It is also known as Jagat Mandir.
It is one of the four Hindu pilgrimages (Char Dham).
The original structure was destroyed by Mahmud Brgada in
1472.
Presently, in the Chalukya architecture style.
Vaishno Devi Temple Jammu & It is 5200 feet above sea level atop Trikuta Hills.
Kashmir It is a Cave temple.
Amarnath Temple Jammu & A cave temple situated at an altitude of 3888 metres.
Kashmir It is one of the 51 Shakti Peeths.
It is believed that Bhrigu Muni (A great sage) was the first to
have discovered Amarnath.
Virupaksha Temple Karnataka Built by Lakkana Dandesha, a chieftain under the ruler Deva
Raya II of the Vijayanagara Empire.
It forms a part of Group of Monuments at Hampi that is
designated as UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Gomateshwara Temple Karnataka It is also known as Bahubali temple.
The tallest monolithic statue (Of Gomateshwara) in the world
carved out of a single block of granite.
It is a Jain temple that is 57 feet high.
Bahubali statue is one of the largest free-standing statues in
the world depicting the prolonged meditation of Bahubali.
Padmanabhaswamy Kerala The architecture is the fusion of Chera and Dravidian styles.
Temple
Khajuraho Temple Madhya They are a group of temples built by the rulers of Chandela
Pradesh Dynasty.
There were 85 temples scattered over an area of 9 square
miles, of which only 25 temples are remaining.
Famous for nagara style architecture and known for extensive
erotic sculptures.
Siddhivinayak Temple Maharashtra It is one of the richest temples in India.
It was constructed by Laxman Vithu & Dubai Patil in 1801.
Konark Sun Temple Odisha Build in the 13th century by King Narasimhadeva I (AD 1238-
1264) during the Ganga Empire.
It is conceived as a gigantic chariot of the Sun God built in
Kalinga architecture (Odisha style of architecture).
Jagannath Temple Odisha It is also called Yamanika Tirtha.
This temple in Puri is famous for its annual chariot festival,
Ratha Yatra.
The first Jagannath temple was commissioned by King
Indradyumna.
Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra are a trio of deities
worshipped at the temple.
Golden Temple Punjab It is a gurudwara, built in the 15th century. It is also known as
Harmindar Sahib.
Temple was plated in Gold in 1980 from the wealth and
material donated by Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
Ramanathaswamy Tamil Nadu One of the twelve Jyotirlinga temples built in the 12th Century.
Temple It has the longest corridor among all Hindu temples in India.
It is built in the Dravidian style of architecture.
Creators – Pandyas and Jaffna Kings
There are 64 Tīrthas i.e. holy water bodies in and around the
island of Rameswaram.
It is also one of the Char Dhams.
Meenakshi Temple Tamil Nadu It has Dravidian Architecture and over 40 inscriptions.
There are 985 richly carved pillars that depict scenes from the
wedding of Meenakshi (Parvati) and Sundareswarar (Shiva).
It is famous for its 3 storied Gopuram at the main entrance.
Ranganathaswamy Tamil Nadu One of the most important of 108 (Divya Desam )Vishnu
Temple Temples.
It is built in Dravidian style, constructed in Vijayanagar Period.
It is located on the island formed by twin river- Cauvery &
Coleroon.
1st temple to be awarded by the UN Body for protecting and
conserving cultural heritage.
Its Gopuram is the biggest Gopuram in Asia. Also, it is the
largest functioning Hindu temple in the world.
Brihadeeswara Temple Tamil Nadu Also known as Raja Rajeswara Temple located at Thanjavur.
This Dravidian style temple was built by the Chola emperor
Raja Raja Chola I.
One of the tallest temples in India that is completely made of
Granite.
It is one of the Great Living Chola Temples, along with
Gangaikonda Cholapuram temple and Airavatesvara temple.
It is also called Dakshin Meru and is situated on the bank of
Cauvery river.
It is a part of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Rajagopalaswamy Tamil Nadu It is created in Dravidian style, it is also called Dakshina
Temple Dwaraka.
It has one of the largest temple tanks in India called Haridra
Nadhi.
Nataraja Temple Tamil Nadu The temple wall carvings display all the 108 karanas from the
Natya Shastra by Bharata Muni; these postures form the
foundation of Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance.
It was built in the 10th century when Chidambaram was the
capital of the Chola dynasty.
It is one of the oldest surviving active temple complexes in
South India.
Kashi Vishwanath Uttar Pradesh The original Vishwanath temple was destroyed by the army of
Temple Qutb-Uddin Aibak in 1194 CE when he defeated the Raja of
Kannauj.
There is a small well in the temple called the Jnana Vapi also
spelt as Gyaan Vapi
In 1669 CE, Emperor Aurangzeb destroyed the temple and built
the Gyanvapi Mosque in its place.
In 1780, Malhar Rao’s daughter-in-law Ahilyabai Holkar
constructed the present temple adjacent to the mosque
It is one of the 12 Jyotirlingas.
Badrinath Temple Uttarakhand It is located in Garhwal hill along the banks of Alaknanda River.
It is at an elevation of 3,133 metres i.e. 10,279 ft above the
mean sea level.
The temple is mentioned in ancient religious texts like Vishnu
Purana and Skanda Purana.
Yamunotri Temple Uttarakhand Situated at an altitude of 3,291 metres i.e. 10,797 ft.
It is located on the backdrop of Bandarpunch
It is dedicated to goddess Yamuna.
Gangotri Temple Uttarakhand It is located on the banks of the river Bhagirathi at an altitude
of 3,415 m (11,204 ft).
