Banashankari Amma Temple
A temple near Badami with a stepped tank and a chariot festival in January.
- Where
- Bagalkot, Karnataka, India
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 15.8872, 75.7050
Get the Banashankari Amma Temple stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Banashankari Amma Temple. 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 Banashankari Amma Temple
Badami Cave Temples 4.0 km
Four sixth century caves cut into red sandstone above a tank, Hindu and Jain, by the early Chalukyas.
Mahakuta 5.8 km
A group of Chalukyan temples round a spring-fed tank, a few kilometres from Badami.
Pattadakal 14 km
Where northern and southern temple styles were tried side by side in the eighth century, and the argument settled.
Aihole 24 km
A hundred and twenty temples in one village, treated by historians as the laboratory where Indian temple form was worked out.
Kudalasangama 52 km
Where the Krishna and the Malaprabha meet, and where Basavanna, the twelfth-century reformer, lies buried at the water's edge.
Almatti Dam 53 km
The main reservoir of the Upper Krishna project in north Karnataka, finished in 2005.
Kasivisvesvara Temple, Lakkundi 56 km
A late Chalukyan temple with two shrines facing each other across one hall.
Mahadeva Temple, Itagi 57 km
A Chalukyan temple of 1112 called the emperor among temples by an inscription on its own wall.
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Questions
Where is Banashankari Amma Temple?
Banashankari Amma Temple is in Bagalkot, Karnataka. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Badami Cave Temples (4.0 km), Mahakuta (5.8 km), Pattadakal (14 km).
How do I get the Banashankari Amma Temple stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Banashankari Amma Temple 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 Banashankari Amma Temple 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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