Aihole
A hundred and twenty temples in one village, treated by historians as the laboratory where Indian temple form was worked out.
- Where
- Karnataka, India
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 16.0190, 75.8810
Get the Aihole stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Aihole. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Karnataka volume with your photos and a note.
Near Aihole
Pattadakal 10 km
Where northern and southern temple styles were tried side by side in the eighth century, and the argument settled.
Mahakuta 18 km
A group of Chalukyan temples round a spring-fed tank, a few kilometres from Badami.
Badami Cave Temples 24 km
Four sixth century caves cut into red sandstone above a tank, Hindu and Jain, by the early Chalukyas.
Banashankari Amma Temple 24 km
A temple near Badami with a stepped tank and a chariot festival in January.
Kudalasangama 28 km
Where the Krishna and the Malaprabha meet, and where Basavanna, the twelfth-century reformer, lies buried at the water's edge.
Almatti Dam 35 km
The main reservoir of the Upper Krishna project in north Karnataka, finished in 2005.
Mahadeva Temple, Itagi 64 km
A Chalukyan temple of 1112 called the emperor among temples by an inscription on its own wall.
Kasivisvesvara Temple, Lakkundi 72 km
A late Chalukyan temple with two shrines facing each other across one hall.
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Questions
Where is Aihole?
Aihole is in Karnataka. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Pattadakal (10 km), Mahakuta (18 km), Badami Cave Temples (24 km).
How do I get the Aihole stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Aihole and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Karnataka volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Aihole before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Karnataka volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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