Mukteswar Temple
Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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Parasurameswara Temple
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
The best-preserved of Bhubaneswar's earliest temples (c. 650 CE) — a Shiva shrine whose latticed windows and dancing figures set the Kalinga template.
Rajarani Temple
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
The 'love temple' of dusky-red rajarania sandstone — deity-less now, famed for sensuous nayika sculptures and the guardian dikpalas of the eight directions.
Bindusagar Tank
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
The 'ocean drop' tank said to hold water from every holy river — the sacred heart of the old temple city, ringed by shrines beside Lingaraj.
Vaital Deula
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
An 8th-century Chamunda temple with a rare khakhara (barrel) roof — a tantric shrine of the eight-armed goddess, spookiest at dusk.
Lingaraj Temple
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
The 11th-century masterpiece of Kalinga architecture — a 55-m deul to Harihara (Shiva-Vishnu as one), the crown of Bhubaneswar's 'temple city'.
Odisha State Museum
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
The state's great collection — palm-leaf manuscripts, Bronze Age copper hoards, Buddhist bronzes and the finest gallery of Odishan stone sculpture.
Ram Mandir Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
A modern landmark temple in Kharavela Nagar with tall tricolour-lit gopurams — the city's busiest evening shrine and festival hub.
Ekamra Haat & Tribal Museum
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
A crafts bazaar of Odishan handloom and the acclaimed Museum of Tribal Arts & Artefacts — recreated huts of 62 tribes with living-culture galleries.
ISKCON Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
The Krishna-Balaram temple on Nayapalli's rise — kirtan halls, Govinda's prasadam and one of the city's calmest spiritual corners.
Dhauli Shanti Stupa
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
The riverside hill where the Kalinga War's bloodshed turned Ashoka to Buddhism — his rock edicts below, a white Japanese peace pagoda above the Daya.
Udayagiri & Khandagiri Caves
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Twin hills of Jain rock-cut monasteries carved for King Kharavela's monks in the 1st century BCE — the Hathigumpha inscription tells Kalinga's own history.
Chausathi Yogini Temple Hirapur
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
A rare 9th-century open-air circular temple of the 64 Yoginis — a tantric hypaethral shrine of fierce goddess figures, one of only four in India.