Place · Western Chalukya temple · India
Siddheśvara Temple, Haveri
Also known as Siddheshwara, Haveri, Siddhesvara
An eleventh-century Chalukya temple in a small town on the Pune–Bengaluru road, with an unusual plan — a sanctum entered from two sides, a covered ambulatory, and outer walls carrying figures of a scale and finish that belong in a capital rather than in a market town.
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 14.790, 75.400
Worth knowing
The Deccan's greatest medieval architecture is distributed across villages and small towns rather than concentrated in capitals, because the Chalukyas endowed local temples rather than building one imperial complex — which is why so much of it is unvisited and why Haveri, Lakkundi, Itagi and Kuruvatti are names almost nobody outside Karnataka knows.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “Western Chalukya architecture”. Adam Hardy, Indian Temple Architecture: Form and Transformation (1995); Epigraphia Indica for the Chalukya and Kakatiya records.
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