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The name misleads: nine temples called Nava-Brahma, every one of them dedicated to Shiva.
Twenty-three temples stand here, most of them ruined, and all of them moved, the cluster having been relocated to the southwest of Alampuram village rather…
Most people still call it St Mary's, and the older name fits the building better than the title it was given in 2008.
Bhadrachalam, on the Godavari, is the 'Ayodhya of the South' — the seat of Sita Ramachandraswamy, whose temple was raised in the 17th century by the…
A single shadow lies on the lingam all day, whatever the sun is doing, and the architect put it there deliberately — the pillars of the ardhamandapa and the…
Two buildings occupy the same set of walls. Bodhan's hundred-pillared hall was raised as the Indranarayana Swamy temple in the Kakatiya era, then converted…
Jogulamba Temple in Alampur, Telangana is one of the Shakti Peethas, the sacred shrines of the Divine Mother in the Shakta tradition of Hinduism.
Bricks made from soil carried out of Mecca sit in the central arch. Muhammad Qutb Shah commissioned them, and they gave the mosque its name.
The Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad is one of the oldest and largest mosques in India, begun in the 16th century by the Qutb Shahi rulers.
Thirty-five kilometres out of Hyderabad, on top of Paramanand Giri hill at Sanghi Nagar, with a Raja Gopuram tall enough to pick out from several kilometres…
Rama here is four-armed, the Vaikuntha form Vishnu took to answer Bhadra's prayers, with Sita and Lakshmana part of the same central icon.
A banker built this one. Seth Puranmal Ganeriwala, who handled money for the Nizams, put up the temple at Mallepally when Mallepally was still a village…
Yadadri's hilltop cave shrine of Lakshmi Narasimha — the fierce man-lion form of Vishnu — has been transformed into Telangana's grandest temple: the hill…
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