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Early modern · Hindu · India
Raghunath Temple
Jammu, Jammu & Kashmir · 32.7303°, 74.8625°
Rama (Raghunath)DograBrick shikharas with gold-plated spires and Sikh-influenced domes
Sacred since
1835 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
begun under Gulab Singh, completed 1860
Dogra
History & significance
A complex of seven shrines in the heart of Jammu, begun by the first Dogra ruler Gulab Singh and finished by his son Ranbir Singh. Besides some three hundred carved images it holds a library of over six thousand Sanskrit manuscripts, including rare Sharada-script texts.