Jammu & Kashmir Siva Temples List:
Anantnag District:
- Achabal
- Aishmuqam
- Akura (Mattan)
- Anantanag – 2 Shiva Temples
- Anantnag Janglat Mandi Shivalaya
- Bhaumajo Caves – two (Shiva) Temples at the foot of the cliff
- Brarianangan – Umanagari
- Bijbehara – Harischandir Temple of Shiva Vijayeshvara, having 11 lingas called Ekadash Rudr, built during the period of King Ashoka, on the pilgrim route to Martand and Amarnath
- Bumazuv – cave-Temple of architectural interest, Two ancient Temples which are converted to Muslim ziarats, 1 mile away from Mattan, from Anantnag on the Pahalgam road
- Chatargul
- Chitergund
- Chandi Puiarl (Thana Qazigund)
- Chogam
- Dhanav – (Bogund)
- Dooru
- Dyalgam
- Fatehpura (Qazigund Tehsil)
- Hanand, Chowalgam – 2 ancient Temple
- Kother – faces south-west, on the Acchabal-Kashtwar road
- Kother – faces to the west
- Krangsoo
- Kulgam Dhanbogund
- Kuvi Utraso Temple
- Larkipora
- Lok Bhawan – Tirth Raj Asthapan – Shiva Temple – 8 km from Anantnag. (Thana Qazigund )
- Martand – Marttandeshvar – vijayeshvar (84 pillor Temple), 5 miles from the town of Anantnag
- Martandeshwar – Mattan wudar in the East of Anantnag
- Mattan Temple – 2 miles from Martand, in the middle of a deep pond
- Moripura
- Nagbal – Shivaji Temple – built during the reign of Maharaja Partap Singh
- Nai Basti Shivalay
- Navgam Shangas
- Navgam Achhabal
- Sagam
- Salar
- Silligam – Thana Aishmuqam
- Sarnal Gautamnag
- Sopore – Nandkeshvar Bhairava,
- Sopore – Another Shiv Temple on the bank of the Vitasta, near Rasool, annual festival on Jyestha Amavasya
- Sheer Gunj – Shiva Mandir
- Teelvani
- Thajiwara – Chotta AmarNath Temple, two kilometer from Bijbehara
- Verinag – 6 Temples, Pawan Sandhya Theerth, Vamu Mandir, Spring Temple, Vetesta Mandir, Buna Gund mandir
- Voomoh – Shiva Temple with seven feet long Shiva Lingam, changes colour each day during the week
- Wanpoh (Gasipora) on Khanabal-Qazibad road
Badgam District:
- Chadura
- Chandpora
- Karihama Mandir
- Magam (Thana Vodura) – Shivji mandir
- Nowgam
- Sanghampura – (Thana Biru) – Shiva Temple
- Yachhgam
Varahamula (Baramulla) District:
- Bandi – Detha Mandir, The Temple is built on a high platform in the middle of the courtyard surrounded by a peristyle. The entrance is through a two- chambered gateway. It is assignable to circa tenth century A.D.
- Bandipore – Shiva Mandir
- Baramulla – Bhairavnath
- Baramulla – Shiva Temple, located on River Jehlum.
- Baramulla – Nandkishwar Sumbal Bhirav Nath Mandir
- Baramulla on Kungar Tang Road
- Baramulla Shailaputri Temple
- Fatapura Sopore
- Hardchanan
- Jayapura (Andarkot) – f King Jayapida near Wular Lake
- Kanishpura (ASI)
- Karichhama – Tang Marg
- Koti Tirtha – on the bank of Vitasta – mukha lingam
- Kreri
- Kunzer Mandir
- Palhalan
- Pattan – Shankargaurisvara, Monolithic Siva Temple, Built by Sankaravarman in the ninth century A.D., the Temple is dedicated to Shiva. It has a square a sanctum with a portico having a trefoiled niche and a number of carved figures. The peristyle and plinth are buried underground .The entrance faces east.
- Pattan – Sugandesha Temple, Built by Sugandha, queen of Ssankaravarman in the ninth century A.D., the Temple has a square sanctum with a portico in front and a peristyle around. It is open on one side and has trefoiled niches with sculptures on other sides.
- Panzulla
- Shankarapuram (Patan) – in between Shrinagar and Baramulla, 2 Lord Shiva (Sankaragaurisvara and Sugandheswara) Temples (8 th century ACE)
- Shadipora – Narayan Bagh Shadipora Mandir?
- Sheelputri Asthapan
- Sopore – Bhairavnath
- Sumbal – Nandkishwar BairavNath Mandir
- Vankura
Doda District:
- Bhadrawah Basaknag Mandir
- Bharat Village
- Buichhal Mandir
- Gupt Ganga Temple, Bhaderwah, Doda, Jammu & Kashmir – ssociated with the Pandavas, during `Agyatvas` (living in exile), Pandavas had spent a few days here
- Kiratwar – Shiv Mandir
- Kulharad
- Supernag Temple
Jammu District:
- Jammu – raNabhIreshwar
- Dera Temple; Village-Manwal, Jammu
- Shiv Temples on the north bank of Tawi river, NH 1A, Jammu
- Poonch – Budda Amarnath – 25-km Northeast Of Poonch Town
Kathua District:
- Billawar – Ancient Temple (Harihara)
- Basohli – Vishesvara and other cave Temple
- Mahadera – Trilochananath Temple
Kulgam District:
- Areh, Kulgam
- Damhal, Honjipora – Shivaji Temple
- Devsar – Devsar Mandir
- Kulgam – Two Shiva Temples
- Kulgam – Ashmuji Mandir
- Mirhama
Kupwara District:
- Handura Mandir – Bata Gund Mandir
- Handwara – Chogal Mandir
- Lalpura
- Shiva Mameshwara Temple, Kupwara, Jammu & Kashmir – 12th century – on the banks of Wular Lake, 11 km from Alsu, near Bandipore, Has a stone-lined tank, about 1 sq. m in diameter
- Sharada Peeth – Shiva Temple, Kupwara, Jammu & Kashmir – in the Neelam valley
- Sharda Teerth, Kupwara, Jammu & Kashmir, associated with Rishi Kashyap
- Tekpora
- Tragaon
- Watipora
Panwangam (Pulwama) District:
- Avantipur (Vantipur) Avantishwara – Northern bank of river Zeelam in between islamabad and srinagar, avantIshvar, built by avantivarma (855-882 ACE) – This Siva Temple was built by king Avantivarman. It is located in the centre of a courtyard surrounded by a colonnaded peristyle. The entrance is in the middle of the western wall and is approached by a flight of steps. The base of the sanctum is cruciform approached by stairs from four sides. There are two subsidiary shrines at the rear corners of the courtyard.
- Kakpora – This Temple assignable to tenth – eleventh century A.D. is built in the centre of a courtyard enclosed by peristyle. Only base of the sanctum and a few cells of the peristyle are preserved.
- Khrew – Shiva Temple, ancient monolithic
- Koil (Thana Pulwama) Shiva Temple
- Ladhuv – This Temple which is internally circular and externally square stands in the middle of a tank fed by a natural spring. The entrance on the south west sides as an arch surmounted by a pediment. The structure is datable to circa eighth century A. D.
- Brari Maej, Shiva Temple
- Quill
- Payer – 950 ACE, t is open on all sides (Sarvatobhadra type). The doorways are surmounted by a trefoil arch enclosed by a pediment. There are beautiful sculptures in relief of three forms of Shiva in the trefoil arches of the doorways. The roof is pyramidal and two- tiered.
- Shopian Shiva Temple
- Shopian Suchcha Nath Mandir
- Trisal (Thana Pulwama)
Rajouri District:
- Banpuri Shiva Kashi Temple, Sunderbani – holds a grand yagya on Baisakhi every year
- Peer Badesar Temple – constructed by King Kanishka, in 142 ACE, on the border between Rajouri and the Pak Occupied Kashmir.
Srinagar District:
- Ashtapan of Nandkeshwar
- Village Achan – Shri Jagan Nath
- Village Sumbal – Shri Nandkeshvar
- Village Mattan – Shri Ganganand
- Village Pargachu – Shri Kakvishal
- Village Ladhoo – Shri Jeevan Nath
- Village Sirnoo – Shri Moonglesher
- Village Drussu – Shri Omkar Nath
- Village Murran – Shri Neilkanth
- Maisuma Bhairav
- Jawaharnagar Shiv Temple
- Srinagar Karan Nagar Bhairav Mandir
- Srinagar Near Secratariat Shiv Temple
- Srinagar Chota Bazar Shiv Mandir
- Srinagar Sarafkadal Shiva Mandir
- Srinagar Shitalnath Mandir
- Srinagar Bana Mohalla – Shiva Vishnu Temple, on the Bank of River Jehlum.
- Srinagar – Karfali Mohalla
- Srinagar Hawal – Puran Raja Bhairo
- Narsingh Bagh Shadipur Temple, Ganderbal, Shrinagar
- Avantishwara Temple, 30 km from Srinagar on Srinagar-Jammu National Highway
- Barbar Shah – Shiv Temple
- Batayar – Shiv Mandir
- Barov Mandir, Srinagar
- Bijbehara – Vijeshwar Temple
- Bijbehara – Another Shiva Temple
- Bohri Kadal – Ancient medival period Temple
- Bumzuva cave Temple – A Temple is enshrined in one cave, which has a trefoil arched doorway surmounted by a pediment and side walls. On stylistic consideration it is assignable to circa twelfth century A.D. The main Shiva Temple was built on a high raised platform inside the cave. A Shiv linga installed on the right side of the Cave Temple the area of the cave is approximately. 5X10 mts. The flight of steps with railings has been restored.
- Chandpora – Shiva Temple
- Chakreshwar Temple, Hari Parbat, Srinagar
- Sri Ranbireshwar – Ishbar Nishat, Srinagar
- Shiva Temple – Doompura, Basant Bagh, Srinagar
- Fatehkadal, Srinagar – Near Raghunath Temple
- Gandherbal – Shiva Temple
- Hariparbat – Vamdev Mandir
- Rainawari – Shiva -Parvati Temple
- Logripora – Ragniya shiv Temple
- Jyesteshwara Temple (Shankaracharya Temple) – on Gopadari Hill in the south-east of Srinagar, built by king Gopaditya in the sixth century A.C.E.
- Jagan Nath Bhairavji mandir – Achan, Pulwama
- Habba Kaddal – Somyar Mandir
- Kotithirth – bairav bagh Shiva Temple
- Kotithirth – Small Shiva Temple near by
- Bhairavnath Temple of Chattabal, Srinagar
- Magarmal Bagh Mandir –
- Mansbal lake – Shiva Temple
- Naranag – Temple of Shiva, Naranag is the modern name of the ancient Sodaratirtha, which was an important place of pilgrimage since the earliest times. It contains two groups of temples. The first includes six temples. The main temple has a square base with two entrances facing each other on the northeast and southeast sides. It has a pyramid roof and a domestic roof. The two closed sides are decorated externally. The second group of temples is enclosed in a parastyle pierced by a two-bedroom walkway. The largest temple has a square base. There is a rectangular granite feeder to allow sacred spring water to enter the exterior.
- Narastan – Shiva Temple
- Patnitop – Sudh Mahadev – 120-km Northeast Off The Srinagar Road At Kud, Ancient Temple
- Paapharan Nag – Shiva Temple
- Pokhribal Temple – near Almond garden in Srinagar
- Pryag – Shiva Temple
- Purshyar Temple, Shiva Temple on the bank of River Jhelum, on the ghats of Veyth,Srinagar
- Puranadhisthana (Pandrathen) -three miles south of Srinagar – 50 BC. Two temples of Siva, called Bhim Swamina and Vardhamanesa, is one of the best preserved Shiva temples of the sarvatobhadra type, located in the middle of a reservoir. It is mitigated by sculptures of figures particularly visible on the ceiling. It has a two-level pyramid roof, while its four entrances show the usual type of paved clover design.
- Puranadhisthana (Pandrathen) – three miles to the south of Srinagar – Meru-Vardhan Swami, built sometime between 913 and 921 A.D. by Partha – King of Kashmir
- Shivala Temple, Chotta Nazar, Srinagar
- Kathlishwar Mandir, Zaindar Mohalla, Srinagar
- Srinagar – Hill Temple, shankar
- Srinagar – Babor Temple – 72-km East Of Jammu-Srinagar Road, Ancient Temple
- Shiva Mandir, Shetalnath, Srinagar
- Shiva Mandir, Malapora, Srinagar
- Shivalaya – Ramakrishna mission, Karan Nagar, Srinagar
- Kani Kadal, Srinagar – Gouri Shankar Mandir
- Sumbal – Nandkishor
- Tulamulla
- Barbar Shah, Srinagar
- Karan Nagar / Nursing Garh – Bhairavnath Mandir
- Sathoo bar bar shah – Shivji Temple
- Shiva Temple at zeethyar – Srinagar at the foothills of Zabarwan mountain range
- Takshak Nag – Shiva Temple
- Thajwara Thirtha
- Vicharnag Shiva Temple
- Ashtapan of Nandkeshwar
Other Place of Jammu & Kashmir :
- Amarnath – 80 miles from shrI nagar
- Bail Ganv (Pahalgam)
- Bijbehara – Siva Temple
- Balhama Shiva Temple
- Daktisulaimal – a hill top Temple in Kashmir
- Fatehgarh – Siva Temple, A ruined large Temple with a square sanctum. Fragment of a colossal Shiva-linga is placed over a moulded platform in the cell. It may be attributed to circa ninth century A. D.
- Garur – Siva Temple
- Jaubror – Avantisvara Temple
- Katra – Baba Dhansar, 15 kms from katra on the way to salal dam.
- Katra – Shivkhori, 70 kms from katra.
- Kother – Siva Temple
- Manasbal Lake – Siva Temple
- Bhutesa Temple
- Jyesthesa Temple
- Shankaragauriswara Temple
- Sugandesa Temple
- Avantishwara Temple
- Miniature Temple, Shopian
- Kaptesvara Temple
- Harihara Temple
- Pahalgam – Mamlesvara Temple
- Pahalgam – Gauri Shankar Temple
- Pandrethan – Siva Temple
- Sherpore Kund – Shiv Mandir
- Vangat (Vaniyat) – 320 miles from srinagar in kashmir, near harmukh mountain, Bhutesh, before 8th cent ACE, renovated by Uchchahalan in 12th cent.
- Bhatpora – Karihama in Tehsil, Magam
- Drabyar Temple
- Gouri Shanker Mandir, Kani-Kadal
- Shiva Mandir, Batayar
- Khrew
- Vijeshwar Temple, Bijbehara
- Shiva Temple, Bijbehara
- Bairavnath mandir – Sopore
- Ganderbal
- Damhal, Hanjipura
- Kulgam – 2 Shiva Temples
- Kulgam – Shivala Temple
- Kulgam – Shivalik Temple
Kashmir Temples Destroyed before 20th cent ACE:
Information from koausa.org
Desecration of Hindu Temples in Kashmir from the advent of Islam 1339 A.D.
(The following brief is based on the recorded findings of Historians including Muslim chroniclers and foreign non-Hindu travelers).
- SHANKARACHARYA MANDIR (SRINAGAR)
- NARPARISTHAN MANDIR (SRINAGAR) Built by Likhana-Naraindraditya who reigned
- Kashmir from 178 to 191 A.D
- KALI MANDIR (SRINAGAR)
- MAHASHRI MANDIR (SRINAGAR)
- SKANDA BHAWAN (SRINAGAR Downtown)
- TRIBHAWANA-SVAMIN (SRINAGAR Downtown)
- KSHANA-GANVISHVARA
- VIKRAMISHVERA (VICHARNAG)
- AMRITA BHAWANA
- RANESHVARA (SHALIMAR GARDEN) Built by King Ramadatiya (414-74 A.D)
- MARTAND Built by King Ramadeva (2936-3005 B.C)
- TEMPLE OF BUZMA
- SHRINES AROUND DAL LAKE
- SHARDA UNIVERSITY & ACADEMY OF LEARNING (VIJAISHORI, now BIJBEHARA)
- Rajtarangini – Kalhana (Volume II)
- HILL OF SARIKA
- TEMPLE OF SIVA PRAVARESVAPA
- POSITION OF RAMASVAMIN TEMPLE
- SKANDABHAVANA
- SAMUDRAMATHA
- JUSKAPURA
- AMARESVARA
- VICHARNAG
- TIRTHA OF SODARA
- PADMAPURA
- SANARA
- CAKRADHARA
- TEMPLE OF SIVA VIJAYESVARA
- DISTRICT OF VAMAPARSVA
- SHRINE OF BHIMAKESAVA
- TEMPLE OF MARTANDA
- SAMANGASA
- DISTRICT OF KARALA
- PARIHASAPURA
- VARAHAMULA
Also Read Lord Shiva Temples Across India:
List of Lord Shiva Temples in Jammu & Kashmir State
