Gol Gumbaz
The second largest dome in the world without pillars, with a gallery where a whisper carries the full circle.
- Where
- Vijayapura, Karnataka, India
- Grade
- National monument
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 5 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 16.8302, 75.7362
Get the Gol Gumbaz stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Gol Gumbaz. 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 Gol Gumbaz
Jama Masjid, Bijapur 1.2 km
Ali Adil Shah's unfinished mosque, with a floor ruled into two thousand two hundred prayer spaces.
Bijapur 2.3 km
The Adil Shahi capital, with a dome nearly as wide as St Peter's and a hundred smaller tombs around it.
Ibrahim Rouza 3.6 km
The tomb that is said to have suggested the Taj.
Almatti Dam 58 km
The main reservoir of the Upper Krishna project in north Karnataka, finished in 2005.
Kudalasangama 78 km
Where the Krishna and the Malaprabha meet, and where Basavanna, the twelfth-century reformer, lies buried at the water's edge.
Akkalkot 91 km
The town where Swami Samarth sat under a banyan tree for twenty two years, and the shrine that grew around it.
Aihole 92 km
A hundred and twenty temples in one village, treated by historians as the laboratory where Indian temple form was worked out.
Dattatreya Temple, Ganagapur 93 km
The Nirguna Math at Ganagapur, where Sri Narasimha Saraswati, revered as an incarnation of Dattatreya, is said to have lived for many years. His padukas are worshipped here, and pilgrims bathe at the meeting of the Bhima and Amarja rivers nearby.
More national monuments in Karnataka
Questions
Where is Gol Gumbaz?
Gol Gumbaz is in Vijayapura, Karnataka. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Jama Masjid, Bijapur (1.2 km), Bijapur (2.3 km), Ibrahim Rouza (3.6 km).
How do I get the Gol Gumbaz stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Gol Gumbaz 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 Gol Gumbaz 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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