19th August 2012
This Temple is hard to miss in Srinagar. Situated on a hill of 1000ft height, it is one of the prominent places seen from Dal Lake.
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| Shankaracharya Temple seen from Dal lake |
The climb to this hill starts near Nehru Park adjoining Dal Lake. Be ready for a strict security check at CRPF check post at the base. Once you are out of security check, 5 km climb to Shankaracharya Temple begins. The roads are great and you reach base of the Temple in few minutes. And then you need to climb over 100 steps to reach theTemple.
The Temple dedicated to Lord Shiva is named after Shankaracharya visited this place. The Temple is said to be constructed in 200BC but few archeologists put an argument stating the time to be 9th century AD.
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| View of Srinagar from Shankaracharya Temple |
Since cameras are not allowed inside the Temple, there is no opportunity to take snaps. But you can get down at any of the views points while driving down and take some snaps!! For the view of Srinagar (especially Dal Lake) it is worth stopping at some view points.
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| Boathouses in Dal lake |
R Niranjan Das
Nice views from the top. Lovely shots.
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Team G Square
Lovely pictures .
Vineeta Yashswi
Good information and all picture are too good…
Srikanth Manjunath
The Shankaracharya temple looks very impressive. Just it triggers how he would have travelled all over India that too with in a short span of his tenure. Super snaps, and a equally good narration friend!
padmini chandrakar
nice shots and very well narrated.
ರಾಜೇಶ್ ನಾಯ್ಕ
Good Series Again. Amazing that these temples still exist in that region though in ruins. Liked the Marthand Sun Temple very much. Thanks for these posts.
Aravind GJ
Niranjan, G square, Vineeta, Padmini,
Thanks for your comments.
Srikanth,
True… that too during the times when no transport facility was available!!
Rajesh,
Thanks for your comments.