Kashi Vishwanath Temple

Varanasi, Varanasi District, Uttar Pradesh Shaiva tradition

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

Photograph

Earliest republishable photograph in this record.

Present temple

The standing temple in Varanasi. Earlier buildings on the site remain unresolved in this record.

14 November 2024 Gannu03, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source and license

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Identified from a secondary account This line records the published identification only. It does not add a construction date or a height. Date not established in this corpus · Documented fact · Medium confidence

Evidence summary

Counts are records in this corpus, including gaps.

1 Republishable photographs

0 Interior photographs

0 Diagrams

1 Documents

About the temple

Kashi Vishwanath Temple is in Vishwanath Gali, Varanasi. Secondary accounts identify it as a Jyotirlinga dedicated to Shiva, under the names Vishwanath and Vishweshwara. Earlier buildings on the site are disputed in those accounts. This corpus does not adopt a demolition chronology and stores no photograph of the present shrine.

Primary deity: Shiva as Vishwanath

The present building’s date and the dates of earlier shrines on the site are not established from a source ingested here.