Lingaraja Temple

Bhubaneswar, Khordha District, Odisha Shaiva tradition

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

Photograph

Earliest republishable photograph in this record.

Temple tower

The Lingaraja tower at Bhubaneswar.

8 December 2013 Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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

Lingaraja Temple is the large Shiva temple in old Bhubaneswar. Secondary accounts also name the presiding goddess as Annapurna or Girija. No measured height and no photograph are stored.

Primary deity: Shiva, with Parvati as Annapurna or Girija

The temple is described as one of the oldest standing temples in Bhubaneswar. A foundation year is not established in this corpus.