Badami Cave Temples
Four sixth century caves cut into red sandstone above a tank, Hindu and Jain, by the early Chalukyas.
- Where
- Badami, Karnataka, India
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 15.9180, 75.6850
Get the Badami Cave Temples stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Badami Cave Temples. 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 Badami Cave Temples
Banashankari Amma Temple 4.0 km
A temple near Badami with a stepped tank and a chariot festival in January.
Mahakuta 7.0 km
A group of Chalukyan temples round a spring-fed tank, a few kilometres from Badami.
Pattadakal 14 km
Where northern and southern temple styles were tried side by side in the eighth century, and the argument settled.
Aihole 24 km
A hundred and twenty temples in one village, treated by historians as the laboratory where Indian temple form was worked out.
Almatti Dam 51 km
The main reservoir of the Upper Krishna project in north Karnataka, finished in 2005.
Kudalasangama 51 km
Where the Krishna and the Malaprabha meet, and where Basavanna, the twelfth-century reformer, lies buried at the water's edge.
Yellamma Temple, Saundatti 59 km
Renuka's temple on the hill above Saundatti, which took her other name, Yellamma.
Kasivisvesvara Temple, Lakkundi 59 km
A late Chalukyan temple with two shrines facing each other across one hall.
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Questions
Where is Badami Cave Temples?
Badami Cave Temples is in Badami, Karnataka. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Banashankari Amma Temple (4.0 km), Mahakuta (7.0 km), Pattadakal (14 km).
How do I get the Badami Cave Temples stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Badami Cave Temples 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 Badami Cave Temples 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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