Bull Temple
A Nandi four and a half metres tall carved from one granite boulder in the sixteenth century, when the town was new.
- Where
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- 12.9418, 77.5687
Get the Bull Temple stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Bull Temple. 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 Bull Temple
Gavi Gangadhareshwara Temple 0.9 km
A cave temple in Bengaluru where the sun passes between the horns of a stone bull each Makara Sankranti.
Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace 2.0 km
Teak pillars and painted plaster, finished in 1791, the last four years of a court that fought the British four times.
Lalbagh Botanical Garden 2.0 km
Started by Hyder Ali in 1760, with a glass house modelled on the Crystal Palace and a rock three thousand million years old.
K. R. Market 2.6 km
The flower market at the heart of old Bengaluru, at its best before six in the morning when the marigolds arrive by the tonne.
Dharmaraya Swamy Temple 3.1 km
The Tigala community's temple in the old city of Bengaluru, and the start of the Karaga festival.
Cubbon Park 4.5 km
Three hundred acres of shade in the middle of Bengaluru, closed to traffic on Sundays since people asked.
Government Museum, Bengaluru 4.7 km
One of the oldest museums in India, 1865, with the Halmidi inscription in it.
Vidhana Soudha 4.8 km
Granite neo Dravidian built in 1956 to prove the state could raise something as grand as anything colonial.
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Questions
Where is Bull Temple?
Bull Temple is in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Gavi Gangadhareshwara Temple (0.9 km), Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace (2.0 km), Lalbagh Botanical Garden (2.0 km).
How do I get the Bull Temple stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Bull Temple 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 Bull Temple 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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