Category: Temples in India

Uttarakhand didn’t get the nickname “Devbhoomi” — Land of the Gods — by accident. Almost every valley here hides a temple, and almost every temple hides a story that’s older than most written history. From the ice-bound sanctum of Kedarnath to a roadside ashram that changed Steve Jobs’ life, the temples in Uttarakhand aren’t just […]

About 8 km from Almora town, on a pine-covered ridge with the Kumaon Himalaya spread out in front of you, sits a temple that has pulled in spiritual seekers for well over a century. Swami Vivekananda meditated here in the 1890s. Sixty years later, an American psychologist fired from Harvard for his LSD research showed […]

Triyuginarayan sits in Rudraprayag district at 1,980 metres, a short trek off the main Kedarnath route. According to Hindu tradition, this is where Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati were married, and the fire in front of the temple — the Akhand Dhuni — is traditionally believed to be connected to that wedding. Pilgrims have offered […]

Chitai Golu Devta Temple sits about 8–10 km from Almora, and it works differently from most temples you’ll visit in Uttarakhand. Devotees don’t just pray. They write down what they want — or what’s gone wrong — on paper and leave it at the temple, the way you’d file a petition. That single practice is […]