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Jharkhand
Locals still call it Angrabari; the name Amreshwar Dham came later, given by the Shankaracharya Swami Swarupananda Saraswati.
Baidyanath Dham (Jaya Durga) in Deoghar, Jharkhand is one of the Shakti Peethas, the sacred shrines of the Divine Mother in the Shakta tradition of Hinduism.
Rajrappa's shrine to Chhinnamasta pulls devotees from every part of Jharkhand, and across the borders from Bihar and West Bengal too, which tells you most of…
Deoghar, the 'abode of the gods', is home to the Baidyanath Jyotirlinga, one of the twelve sacred Jyotirlingas of Shiva.
You can walk up the staircase or drive the motorable path; either way this 17th-century temple stands on a hillock about 10 km out of central Ranchi.
Sixty kilometres out of Ranchi, on the right of the Tata road as you near Tamar, a two-acre compound holds a 700-year-old image of a sixteen-armed village…
Thirty-six of the original 108 have already gone; 72 terracotta temples still stand in this village near Shikaripara, on the eastern side of the Chota Nagpur…
A Shiva linga sits at the top of this Ranchi hill, 350 feet above the ground, but it is not the only reason people climb.
Raja Digvijay Singh built this Kali shrine six or seven centuries ago, and it is still among the oldest temples around Madhupur, roughly 7 km from the town.
At Rajrappa the Damodar and Bhairavi rivers meet below a red-washed shrine of Chhinnamastika — the self-decapitated Tantric goddess who feeds her attendants…
The image here is a stone, held to be the goddess Rankini herself rather than a carving of her.
Shikharji, atop Parasnath Hill — Jharkhand's highest peak — is the holiest pilgrimage site in Jainism, where twenty of the twenty-four Tirthankaras are…
A Kali temple at Chira Chas in Bokaro, built by an estate developer on half an acre, and locally important enough that the small township beside it, Kalika…
Built in the shape of a chariot with eighteen wheels and seven horses, this hilltop temple on the Ranchi-Tata road near Bundu is modern rather than ancient.
