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High medieval · Hindu · India
Lakshminarayana Temple
ಹೊಸಹೊಳಲು
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.