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High medieval · Hindu · India
Neelakantheswara Temple
నీలకంఠేశ్వర దేవాలయం
Nizamabad, Telangana · 18.6854°, 78.1145°
Shiva (Neelakanta), with ParvatiUndetermined—
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
dating unrecorded
Undetermined
History & significance
An old Shiva temple in Nizamabad town that draws large crowds at Shivaratri.
Sthala katha — the traditional account
What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.
The Puranas are said to record that Brahma himself worshipped the linga enshrined here.