High medieval · Hindu · India

Lakshminarayana Temple

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Hosaholalu, Karnataka · 12.6425°, 76.4786°

Lakshmi Narayana (Vishnu)HoysalaHoysala

Sacred since

1250 CE

first attestation / structure

Standing structure

1250 (Hoysala)

Hoysala

History & significance

A soapstone three-shrine temple of 1250 built under Hoysala king Vira Someshwara, with side sanctums for Venugopala and Lakshmi Narasimha. Its four-storey vesara tower and plinth friezes of the Ramayana, Mahabharata and Bhagavata Purana mark the late Hoysala manner.

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