TOUR OF TEMPLES
Circuits
12 Jyotirlingas
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12 Jyotirlingas — Gallery
Temples in this circuit
BhimashankarभीमाशंकरBhimashankar
Bhimashankar is the Shiva Jyotirlinga in the forested Sahyadri hills of Pune district, Maharashtra. Its stone shrine combines Nagara and Hemadpanti elements and lies within the wider Bhimashankar wildlife landscape, known for the Indian giant…
Grishneshwarघृष्णेश्वरGrishneshwar
Grishneshwar, also written Ghrishneshwar or Ghushmeshwar, is the Shiva Jyotirlinga at Verul near the Ellora caves in Maharashtra. Its present form owes much to Ahilyabai Holkar’s eighteenth-century restoration. The carved stone complex has a tiered…
Kashi Vishwanathकाशी विश्वनाथKashi Vishwanath
Kashi Vishwanath is the Shiva Jyotirlinga in Varanasi, on the western side of the Ganga. The deity’s names Vishvanatha and Vishveshvara mean Lord of the Universe. The present temple is associated with Maharani Ahilyabai Holkar’s…
KedarnathकेदारनाथKedarnath
Kedarnath is the Shiva shrine at the head of the Mandakini valley in Uttarakhand’s Rudraprayag district. Its massive stone temple stands on a high Himalayan plateau at roughly 3,580 metres. The conical stone worshipped in…
Mahakaleshwarमहाकालेश्वरMahakaleshwar
Mahakaleshwar is Ujjain’s principal Shiva shrine, situated near Rudrasagar in Madhya Pradesh. The south-facing lingam is worshipped as swayambhu and as one of the twelve Jyotirlingas. Its early-morning Bhasma Aarti is a defining ritual. The…
Mallikarjunaमल्लिकार्जुनMallikarjuna
At Srisailam in the Nallamala Hills, Shiva is worshipped as Mallikarjuna and the Goddess as Bhramaramba. Their shared complex is both a Jyotirlinga pilgrimage site and one of the eighteen Maha Shakti Peethas recognised in…
Nageshwarनागेश्वरNageshwar
Nageshwar is the Shiva Jyotirlinga shrine on the route between Dwarka and Beyt Dwarka in Gujarat. The main sanctum stands beyond a large hall in the temple building. Its Darukavana identity is explained through the…
Omkareshwarओंकारेश्वरOmkareshwar
Omkareshwar occupies Mandhata, also called Shivpuri, an island formed by the Narmada in Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa district. The island’s outline is traditionally associated with the sacred syllable Om. Its Jyotirlinga shrine is closely connected in…
Ramanathaswamyरामनाथस्वामीRamanathaswamy
Ramanathaswamy Temple is the Shiva pilgrimage complex on Rameswaram island in Tamil Nadu’s Ramanathapuram district. It is both a Jyotirlinga shrine and the southern destination of the all-India Char Dham. Its Ramayana traditions connect Rama’s…
SomnathसोमनाथSomnath
Somnath stands at Prabhas Patan beside the Arabian Sea on Gujarat’s Saurashtra coast. Revered as the Aadi Jyotirlinga, it combines an ancient pilgrimage location with a twentieth-century temple consecrated on 11 May 1951. The present…
Trimbakeshwarत्र्यंबकेश्वरTrimbakeshwar
Trimbakeshwar stands in Trimbak at the foot of the Brahmagiri hills near Nashik, where the Godavari’s sacred geography begins. The black-stone temple is one of the twelve Jyotirlingas and is associated with three manifestations interpreted…
Vaidyanathवैद्यनाथVaidyanath
Baba Baidyanath Dham is the Shiva pilgrimage complex in Deoghar, Jharkhand. The main Jyotirlinga shrine is surrounded by smaller temples, including the Goddess shrine with which it is ritually connected. Deoghar is recognised in both…