Place · Maru-Gurjara Vishnu temple · India
Jagdish Temple, Udaipur
Also known as Jagdish Mandir, Jagadīśa Mandir, Jagdish-ji, Jagannath Rai temple
The Jagdish Temple beside Udaipur's City Palace was completed in 1651 by Maharana Jagat Singh I and has been in continuous worship since. First called the temple of Jagannath Rai, it enshrines a four-armed Jagannath, a form of Vishnu, carved from a single black stone. Raised on a tall terrace reached by 32 marble steps, with a brass Garuda at the top and a spire nearly 79 feet high, it is the largest temple in Udaipur and a showpiece of Maru-Gurjara carving.
- Date
- 1651–None
- Function
- Religious institution & practice
- Patron dynasty
- Sisodia (Mewar)
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 24.580, 73.684
Worth knowing
Four smaller shrines to Ganesha, Surya, Shakti and Shiva stand around the main sanctum, and the lanes running in from the old city wall converge on its steps.
About the place
Placed at the coordinates given on the Wikipedia article.
Connections (3)
- Site withinUdaipur
The Jagdish Temple stands in the middle of Udaipur, just outside the royal palace, and the lanes running in from the gates of the old city wall converge on it. Completed in 1651 by Maharana Jagat Singh I, less than a century after the city's foundation, it is the largest temple in Udaipur, and its annual Rath Yatra, the chariot procession of the deity, is described as the most beautiful event in the temple's year.
- Site adjacencyUdaipur & the City Palace
A short walk from the City Palace, the Jagdish Temple was built by Maharana Jagat Singh I, one of the Sisodia rulers who extended the palace over nearly four centuries, and Wikipedia's City Palace article lists it among the monuments in the palace's vicinity. Palace and temple form the royal core of Udaipur: the Maharanas' residence and seat of administration on the ridge above Lake Pichola, and the dynasty's great Vishnu temple, in continuous worship since 1651, at the head of the city's lanes.
- AnalogueJagannatha Temple, Puri
The Jagdish Temple was originally called the temple of Jagannath Rai, and its four-armed black-stone image is the deity Jagannath, understood locally as Vishnu or Krishna. As at Puri, Jagannath's principal seat, the temple's greatest annual event is the Rath Yatra chariot festival. Udaipur's temple belongs to a different architectural world, the Maru-Gurjara style of western India rather than Puri's Kalinga idiom, but it carries the name and festival of the Odisha deity into seventeenth-century Mewar.
Sources
Wikipedia, "Jagdish Temple, Udaipur", "City Palace, Udaipur".
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