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High medieval · Hindu · India

Shiv Khori

Sangar, Pouni, Reasi district, Jammu and Kashmir · 33.1700°, 74.6000°

Shiva, as a naturally formed lingamUndeterminedNatural cave shrine
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
dating unrecorded
Undetermined

History & significance

A cave shrine about 200 m deep in Reasi district, some 80 km from Katra, whose rock formations are read as images of the gods around a self-formed lingam. Pilgrim numbers rose to roughly two million by 2016 after the Shiv Khori Shrine Board was set up in December 2003.

Sthala katha — the legend

One passage inside the cave, now sealed, is said to have run through to the Amarnath cave in Kashmir.

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Sources

coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Undetermined