Durga Temple, Aihole

Aihole, Bagalkot District, Karnataka Early Chalukya temple, described as originally dedicated to Surya

Served from the stored corpus. Last scan Sep 28, 2026. Next scan Oct 28, 2026.

“IWULLEE East Front of the Temple”
Caption of Thomas Biggs’s 1855 plate. Not an inscription on the building.

Durga Temple, Aihole is identified at Aihole, Karnataka.

Documented fact · Medium confidence · Catalog identification · Sanctum

Name and catalog coordinates come from the cited secondary article. They are not a surveyed benchmark.

Durga temple, Aihole, English Wikipedia, retrieved 27 September 2026. · Source

A compiled secondary article used to identify the place. Not an inscription, survey, or archival photograph.

Thomas Biggs photographed the east front of the Durga Temple at Aihole in 1855.

Photographic evidence · High confidence · 1855 · Sanctum

The file description identifies the plate, the photographer, the year, and the temple. The scan is dedicated CC0.

Thomas Biggs, “Plate LXXII. IWULLEE East Front of the Temple,” photograph, 1855, from Architecture in Dharwar and Mysore, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access file, Wikimedia Commons, CC0. · Source

The Commons description, quoting the album caption, identifies the Durga Temple at Aihole. The scan is not a measured survey.

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