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Biraja (Girija) Temple in Jajpur, Odisha is one of the Shakti Peethas, the sacred shrines of the Divine Mother in the Shakta tradition of Hinduism.
A clean Blue-Flag beach beside the Konark Sun Temple, Chandrabhaga is known for sunrises, the annual sand-art festival and its religious significance.
An old centre of Shaivism in Deulajhari village, in the Athmallik sub-division of Angul district.
A limestone cave shrine to Shiva, about 55 km from Jeypore in Koraput district.
Of all the old stone in Bhubaneswar, this is the piece still fully in use: Lingaraja is active in worship where most of the city's temples are not, and that…
For years this one had no visible door: earth had piled against every side up to the bandhana, which is how it got the name Amuha deula, the temple with no…
You look down into this one. There is no superstructure and no roof, only stone walls open to the sky, with the lingam set four metres below the present…
What stands in the cella is a circular yonipitha and nothing else; the lingam is long gone, and people still worship at it, which tells you something about…
Small, low, and about 40 ft to the top of its spire, this is nonetheless the best-preserved early temple in Odisha, which is why anyone serious about Kalinga…
Puri is an ancient holy city on the Bay of Bengal coast in Odisha, and one of the four Char Dham pilgrimage towns.
Named for where it sits: 300 metres east of Lingaraja, which makes it Purvesvara, one of four shrines marking the compass points around the big temple.
Ratnagiri means hill of jewels, and what survives is a ruin: once the major Buddhist monastery in Odisha, worked on from the 5th century to the 13th…
Sambalpur's presiding goddess sits on the bank of the Mahanadi, and the reach of her following is the point: after Jagannath, Samaleswari is the only deity in…
On the southern embankment of Bindusagar sits a monastery in poor shape, one shrine still in worship and the rest of the building dilapidated, held between…
Tara Tarini Temple in Purushottampur, Ganjam, Odisha is one of the Shakti Peethas, the sacred shrines of the Divine Mother in the Shakta tradition of Hinduism.
Vimala Temple (Jagannath, Puri) in Puri, Odisha is one of the Shakti Peethas, the sacred shrines of the Divine Mother in the Shakta tradition of Hinduism.
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