Address Kanipura Sri Gopalakrishna Temple- Kumbla, Kasaragod district Kerala- 671321 Diety Sri Gopalakrishna Introduction Kanipura Sri Gopalakrishna Temple at Kumbla is an ancient temple and is situated eight miles due north of Kasaragod town. According to local religious beliefs, the Krishnashila Idol of the Lord Bala Gopalkrishna, having the features of a child, which was […]
Day: November 6, 2021
Sasthamcotta Sree Dharma Sastha Temple- Kerala
Address Sasthamcotta Sree Dharma Sastha Temple- Sasthamcotta, Kollam District, Kerala- 690 521. Diety Ayyappa Amman: Prabha Introduction Shri Dharma Sastha temple is located at the village Sasthamkotta, Kerala, India. It is surrounded three sides by the largest fresh water lake of Kerala, Sasthamkotta Lake. The temple here is well known for the inhabitance of monkeys. […]
Poruvazhy Peruviruthy Malanada Temple- Kerala
Address Poruvazhy Peruviruthy Malanada Temple- Poruvazhy, Kollam District, Kerala- 691552 Diety Duryodhana Introduction Poruvazhy Peruviruthy Malanada, popularly known as Peruviruthy Malanada or Malanada is the only Duryodhana Temple in South India. It is located at Edakkad Ward (Kara) of Poruvazhy village in Kunnathoor Taluk of Kollam district (Kerala State), India. This place is the northern […]
Kilimarathukavu Shiva Parvati Temple- Kerala
Address Kilimarathukavu Shiva Parvati Temple- Kadalkkal, Koolam District, Kerala-691536 Diety Shiva Amman: Parvati Introduction Kilimarathukavu Siva Parvathy Temple and in Malayalam as , is located in Kadakkal, Kollam, Kerala, India. It is one of the most famous centuries old temples in South India. This temple is very special in its deities. One of the specialties […]
Thirumudi Ezhunellathu Kadakkal Devi Temple- Kerala
Address Thirumudi Ezhunellathu Kadakkal Devi Temple- Kadakkal, Kollam District, Kerala-691536 Diety Amman: Bharakali Introduction Kadakkal Devi Temple is situated at Kollam District, Kerala, India. Kadakkal city is in the eastern part of Kollam District, Kerala. Kadakkal is well known for the social revolutionary activities held in the pre-independent period of India. Kadakkal is an agriculture […]
Takht-I-Rostam Buddhist Monastery – Afghanistan
Address Takht-I-Rostam Buddhist Monastery – Aybak, Afghanistan Diety Buddha Introduction Takht-e Rostam or Stupa of Takht-e Rostam is a stupa buddhist monastery complex 2 km south of the town of Haibak. Built in the 3rd-4th century AD while the area was part of the Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom the complex is carved entirely from the bedrock and […]
Tapa Sardar Buddhist Monastery- Afghanistan
Address Tapa Sardar Buddhist Monastery- Ghazni, Afghanistan Diety Buddha Introduction Tapa Sardar, Tepe Sardar or Tepe-e-Sardar, is an ancient Buddhist monastery in Afghanistan. It is located near Ghazni, and it dominates the Dasht-i Manara plain. The site displays two major artistic phases, a Hellenistic phase during the 3rd to 6th century CE, followed by a […]
Badalpur Buddhist stupa and monastery- Pakistan
Address Badalpur Buddhist stupa and monastery- Punj Katta Rd, Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Diety Buddha Introduction The Badalpur Buddhist site is situated about 9 km North West Taxila museum and 2 km North-West of Julian village. Alexander Cunningham, the then Director General of Archaeological Survey of India visited this important Buddhist monastery during 1863-64. Frontier […]
Jamal Garhi Buddhist Monastery- Pakistan
Address Jamal Garhi Buddhist Monastery- Jamalgarhi, Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Diety Buddha Introduction Jamal Garhi is a small town located 13 kilometers from Mardan at Katlang-Mardan road in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northern Pakistan. Jamal Garhi was a Buddhist monastery from the first until the fifth century AD at a time when Buddhism flourished in […]
Himmatnagar Khed-Roda Group of Temples, Gujarat
Address Himmatnagar Khed-Roda Group of Temples, Raisingpura, Himmatnagar Sabarkantha, Gujarat 383030 Diety Shiva, Vishnu Introduction Khed Roda is a Group of seven temples near Himmatnagar of Sabarkantha District. But locally it is said that there were more than 100 temples in this area. Most of them are completely vanished. These temples are built along the […]