Ishvara Temple, Arasikere
A Hoysala temple on a sixteen pointed star plan, and the only one of its shape.
- Where
- Hassan, Karnataka, India
- Grade
- National monument
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 5 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 13.3181, 76.2604
Get the Ishvara Temple, Arasikere stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Ishvara Temple, Arasikere. 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 Ishvara Temple, Arasikere
Hoysaleswara Temple 31 km
Carved for eighty years and never finished, its plinth wrapped in continuous friezes of elephants, horses and stories.
Hasanamba temple 39 km
Hassan takes its name from this goddess, Hasanamba, which means the smiling mother.
Chennakesava Temple 47 km
Hoysala work of 1117, soapstone cut so fine the bracket figures wear jewellery with separate strands.
Chikkamagaluru 52 km
Where coffee first grew in India, on hills a Sufi saint is said to have planted with seven beans from Yemen.
Baba Budangiri 55 km
Where coffee entered India, in seven smuggled beans.
Shettihalli Rosary Church 56 km
A Gothic church of the 1860s that the Hemavathi reservoir floods every monsoon and gives back every summer.
Gomateshwara 57 km
A seventeen metre Jain figure cut from one rock in 981, reached by six hundred steps up bare granite, barefoot.
Mullayanagiri 59 km
The highest point in Karnataka at nineteen hundred metres, with a small shrine at the top and coffee below.
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Questions
Where is Ishvara Temple, Arasikere?
Ishvara Temple, Arasikere is in Hassan, Karnataka. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Hoysaleswara Temple (31 km), Hasanamba temple (39 km), Chennakesava Temple (47 km).
How do I get the Ishvara Temple, Arasikere stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Ishvara Temple, Arasikere 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 Ishvara Temple, Arasikere 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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