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The presiding image of Kedarnath in the form of lingam is more triangular in shape with a pedestal 3.6 m (12 ft) in circumference and 3.6 m (12 ft) in height. [17] There is a small pillared hall in front of the temple, that has images of Parvati and of the five Pandava princes.
Gauri Kund is a Hindu pilgrimage site and base camp for trek to Kedarnath Temple, in Uttarakhand, India. [1] [2] It is situated at an altitude of 6502 feet above mean sea level in the Garhwal Himalayas.
The road from Rishikesh leads to the Gaurikhund on the Rudraprayag–Kedarnath road from where the trekking would start to Kedarnath temple. The trek to Kedarnath is of 18 km (11 mi), each way. After Kedarnath, road travel to Guptakashi and further to Jagasu covers a distance of 30 km (19 mi). From Jagasu, the trek to Madhaymaheshwar temple via ...
Kedarnath: The temple of Kedarnath is dedicated to Shiva, one of the main deities in Hinduism. The temple is one of the 12 Jyotirlingas or “pillars of light.” It is believed to have been built by the Pandavas. [citation needed] This is also the foremost of the Panch Kedar Temples in Uttarakhand.
It is said that Shiva stayed a night in Basukedar while he was travelling to Kedarnath; this is the reason this place is called Basukedar. Kedarnath Temple: one of the twelve Jyotirlingas of Shiva, is situated in the Himalayan. It is believed that the Kedarnath temple was built by the Pandavas in ancient times.
Rudranath Temple (Sanskrit: रुद्रनाथ) is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva, located in the Garhwal Himalayan mountains in Uttarakhand, India. Located at 3,600 metres (11,800 ft) above sea level, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] this natural rock temple is situated within a dense forest of rhododendron dwarfs and Alpine pastures. [ 3 ]
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Kedarnath (or Kedarnath Main) and Kedarnath Dome (or Kedar Dome) are two mountains in the Gangotri Group of peaks in the western Garhwal Himalaya in Uttarakhand state, India. Kedarnath (Main) lies on the main ridge that lies south of the Gangotri Glacier , and Kedarnath Dome, a subpeak of the main peak, lies on a spur projecting towards the ...