Sri Someshwara Swamy Temple

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Sri Someshwara Swamy Temple

The Sri Someshwara Swamy Temple or Halasuru Someshwara Temple is the oldest Hindu temple in the city of Bangalore in India .

The temple is originally dated to the Chola period and is dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva . Major expansions took place in the late Vijayanagara period under the rule of Hiriya Kempe Gowda II.

gallery

  • Entrance Gate (ca.1868), by Henry Dixon, Archaeological Survey of India Collections

  • Someshwara Temple 1890

  • ornament

  • Depiction of Girija Kalyana (marriage of Parvati to the god Shiva)

  • Durga kills Mahishasura (a demon)

  • Mantapa pillars

Coordinates: 12 ° 58 ′ 31.6 ″  N , 77 ° 37 ′ 27.2 ″  E

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dynamics of Language Maintenance Among Linguistic Minorities: A Sociolinguistic Study of the Tamil Communities in Bangalore . Central Institute of Indian Languages, 1986, p. 7.
  2. ^ Henry Dixon: Archaeological Survey of India Collections 1868 (accessed January 26, 2015).