Madhava Temple at Madhab village near Niali in Cuttack district is one of the Prachi valley’s finest Vishnu shrines, a 13th-century Eastern Ganga temple dedicated to four-armed Vishnu as Madhava. It stands on the eastern bank of the Prachi river, about 6 km from...
The Jagannath Temple Paradeep is the port town’s best-known shrine, a modern Jagannath temple at Sandhakuda village raised by the port community between 1984 and 1990. Unlike Puri’s ancient original, this is a working neighbourhood temple with a documented...
Most visitors walk straight past one of Konark’s best experiences. The Konark Sun Temple Museum — officially the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) Archaeological Museum — sits on the northern side of the Sun Temple complex and holds the sculptures that could...
Tadkeshwar Mahadev Temple — also called Tarkeshwar Mahadev by locals — is one of the oldest Shiva temples in Jaipur, set in the narrow lanes of Chaura Rasta inside the Pink City’s old walled town. Believed to date back to the founding of Jaipur itself (around...
Looking for one of the most important Jain pilgrimage sites near Jaipur? The Shri Digamber Jain Temple at Sanganer — known locally as Sanghiji — is about 14 km south of Jaipur city on NH-12, the Kota–Jaipur road. This towering red-stone temple is an Atishaya Kshetra,...
The ISKCON Temple in Jaipur is a Krishna temple run by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (the Hare Krishna movement) on New Sanganer Road at Mansarovar. Known to devotees as the Sri Sri Giridhari Dauji Temple, it is one of the city’s most...
