High medieval · Hindu · India

Lakshminarasimha Temple, Haranhalli

Haranhalli, Hassan district, Karnataka · 13.2469°, 76.2243°

Vishnu (Lakshminarasimha)HoysalaVesara (Hoysala)

Sacred since

1234 CE

first attestation / structure

Standing structure

c. 1234 (Hoysala)

Hoysala

History & significance

A three-shrined Hoysala temple at Haranhalli in Hassan district, completed in the 1230s at the expense of three brothers and now a protected monument of the Archaeological Survey of India. Its shrines house Venugopala, Keshava and Lakshminarasimha; originally dedicated to Kesava, it was later renamed for Lakshminarasimha.

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