Kalgi Siddheshwara Temple, Karnataka

Address

Kalgi Siddheshwara Temple, Kalgi road, Kalgi Karnataka 585312

Diety

Siddheshwara

Introduction

The present; kalagi” known as “Kaluge” in an ancient inscriptions; is 40 kms away from Kalaburagi. It has a temple complex of Chalukyan period. Kalagi was popularly known then as the garden of temples. Kalagi in the seventh century was a well-developed rich city with a population . Kalgi is a village in Chittapur taluk, Gulbarga district. It is about 35 kilometers east of Gulbarga city near the Telangana-Karnataka border. Kalgi village was once much bigger and a major Deccan city in and before the Western Chalukya era. It hosted many Hindu and Jain temples such as the Siddheshwara temple built in 11th to 12th-century CE. The Siddeshwara temples are being used as agricultural storages by locals. Most of the temples have lost their shikharas, probably because of their dilapidated condition or due to human vandalism. The Siddeshwara temples are located amidst the village habitation. The temples at Kalgi follow the variant of Dravida architecture popularly known as Karnata Dravida style.