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Andhra Pradesh
Amararama at Amaravati is the foremost of the Pancharama Kshetras — five ancient Shiva temples of coastal Andhra said to enshrine pieces of a single sacred…
Inscriptions are the reason to slow down here. The earliest is dated 1073 CE, which tells you the temple was already standing by then, and the run of later…
Bhramaramba (Mallikarjuna) Temple in Srisailam, Andhra Pradesh is one of the Shakti Peethas, the sacred shrines of the Divine Mother in the Shakta tradition…
Twenty-five kilometres out of Kadapa, near Rajampet, stands one of the finest surviving pieces of Vijayanagara building in Rayalaseema: a 16th-century Rama…
Chandra lost his glow, the story goes, and was told to install a Shiva Linga here alongside Rajarajeswari to win it back — which is why the lingam in the…
Lepakshi, in Andhra Pradesh's Sri Sathya Sai district, is known for the 16th-century Veerabhadra Temple, a masterpiece of Vijayanagara architecture.
Manikyamba (Bhimeswara) Temple in Draksharamam, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh is one of the Shakti Peethas, the sacred shrines of the Divine Mother in the Shakta…
Puruhutika (Kukkuteswara) Temple in Pithapuram, Andhra Pradesh is one of the Shakti Peethas, the sacred shrines of the Divine Mother in the Shakta tradition…
Before you reach the main entrance there is a tower to get past: the Gaaligopuram, the wind tower, some seventy feet of it with ten feet of gold-plated…
Srikalahasti, near Tirupati, is one of the Pancha Bhoota Sthalams of Lord Shiva, representing the element of wind (Vayu).
Srisailam, set amid the forested Nallamala Hills above the Krishna River, is home to the Bhramaramba Mallikarjuna Temple, a rare site that is at once one of…
Tirupati, in the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, is one of the great pilgrimage destinations of India: the Sri Venkateswara Temple stands above it on the…
Look up. The paintings are the reason to come, bright and closely detailed frescoes of Rama and Krishna drawn from the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the…
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