Odisha State Museum
Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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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.
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.
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.
Mukteswar Temple
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
The 'gem of Odishan architecture' (c. 950 CE) — a jewel-box shrine famed for its arched torana gateway carved with monkeys and slender maidens.
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.
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.
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.
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'.
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.
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.
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.
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.