Category:Badrinath Group of Temples, Dwarahat

Badrinath Group of Temples, Dwarahat 

Ruins of 11th to 12th century Vishnu temples in Uttarakhand foothills
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Instance of	Hindu temple
Location	Almora district, Kumaon division, Uttarakhand, India
29° 46′ 29.5″ N, 79° 25′ 37.1″ E
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The Badrinath group of temples are ruins of 11th to 12th century Hindu temples in Dwarahat, of which three survive in a form that can be studied. This complex is a fusion of the Himalayan architecture with design elements inspired by the nearby Gujjar Deva group with western Indian architecture. These borrowing of ideas include the trianga mulaprasada standing on a jagati. Its bhadra and curved shikhara style, similarly, is a feature of Maru-Gurjara temples, but uncommon to Himalayan architecture. The Dwarahat Badrinath group is panchratha in plan. The group is dedicated to Vishnu, with shrines for Lakshmi and others. They are attributed to the Katyuri dynasty.

Dwarahat is a historic site in Uttarakhand with many groups of Hindu temples built and restored between the 8th and the 16th century. These temples are attributed to various Hindu kings and queens from different dynasties, particularly those from the Katyuri dynasty. Totaling about 55 Hindu temples, they are notable as central Himalayan temples built with design and architecture typically found in distant, different parts of India (west, south, east). The Dwarahat temples were reduced to ruins by Delhi Sultanate and later the Mughals. Some were restored after the 15th century, and more recently in the 21st century by regional Hindu community and the ASI. For scholarly sources on Gujardeo temple group, see (1) Nachiket Chanchani (2019), Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains: Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the Central Himalayas, University of Washington Press (2) Nachiket Chanchani (2014), From Asoda to Almora, The Roads Less Taken: Māru-Gurjara Architecture in the Central Himalayas, Arts Asiatiques, Tome 69, pp. 3-16

This site should not be confused with the famed pilgrimage site in Uttarakhand that is also called Badrinath temple and is about 200 kilometers north of this group of ruins.

This is a category about ASI monument number N-UT-1.