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It is an ancient temple which is believed to be dedicated to the worship of the goddess Durga and god Shiva, and is claimed as the oldest functional Hindu temple in the world. [8] [9] [10] The findings also established that here was a religious and educational center spread over the hillock and Mandaleshwar temple was the main shrine. The ...
The Shree Padmanabhaswamy Temple is a Hindu temple located in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of the state of Kerala, India. It is widely considered as the world's richest Hindu temple. [61] The name of the city of 'Thiruvananthapuram' in Malayalam and Tamil translates to "The City of Ananta" (Ananta being a form of Vishnu). [62]
The Ganesh temple of Hindu Temple Society of North America is the oldest Hindu temple in the Western hemisphere, in Flushing, Queens, New York City. Swaminarayan Akshardham in Robbinsville , New Jersey , U.S., is the world's second-largest Hindu temple and the largest and most-visited Hindu temple outside Asia .
The temple was classified as a World Heritage Site in 1979. This "extensive Hindu temple precinct" is a "sprawling collection of temples, ashrams, images and inscriptions raised over the centuries along the banks of the sacred Bagmati river", and is one of seven monument groups in UNESCO's designation of Kathmandu Valley. [1]
Temple Oldest fully preserved temple from Antiquity. Mundeshwari Temple: Bihar, India: 105–320 CE Hindu Temple May be the oldest extant (not rebuilt) Hindu temple in the world [135] [136] An information plaque at the site indicates the dating of the temple at least to 625 CE and Hindu inscriptions dated 635 CE were found in the temple. [137 ...
The temple is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Great Living Chola Temples". Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India: 5 Lingaraj Temple: 183.7 [38] 11th century AD Lingaraja Temple is a temple of the Hindu god Harihara and is one of the oldest temples of the Temple City Bhubaneswar, a revered pilgrimage center and the capital of the state of Orissa ...
This is in the garbhagriha of the Parasurameswara Temple, Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva. [3] This is perhaps the second earliest linga associated with Shiva discovered so far, [4] and it has been dated to the 2nd/1st century BC, [5] or the 3rd century BC, [3] or much later, to the 2nd century AD, [6] 3-4th century AD, [6] [7] [8]
Apart from India, where the vast majority (1.12 billion) of the world's 1.3 billion [1] Hindu population lives, Hindu Temples are found across the world, on every continent. . In the Indian Subcontinent, thousands of modern and historic temples are spread across Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakist