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High medieval · Hindu · India
Samaleswari Temple
ସମଲେଶ୍ଵରୀ ମନ୍ଦିର
Sambalpur, Odisha · 21.4740°, 83.9591°
Samaleswari (Samalei Maa)UndeterminedSandhara order, with a pillared circumambulatory gallery
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
dating unrecorded
Undetermined
History & significance
The presiding goddess temple of Sambalpur on the bank of the Mahanadi, whose square sanctum is ringed by a covered pillared passage; it is the leading pilgrimage centre of western Odisha and the neighbouring parts of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.