Prachi Valley Heritage
Puri, Odisha, India
Nearby attractions
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.
Pipili Applique Village
Puri, Odisha
The rainbow town of applique (chandua) craft — canopies, lampshades and umbrellas of mirror-and-cloth line the Bhubaneswar–Puri highway.
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.
Kakatpur Mangala Temple
Puri, Odisha
The riverside goddess Mangala on the Prachi — where the daitapati priests come to divine the new Jagannath idols before every Nabakalebara.
Kuruma Buddhist Site
Puri, Odisha
An excavated 9th-century monastery near Konark — seated Buddha and Heruka images proving a Buddhist past beside the Sun Temple.
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'.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.