Category:Alampur Navabrahma Temples

Alampur Navabrahma Temples 

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Instance of	Hindu temple (9, Shiva)
Location	Alampur, Jogulamba Gadwal district, Telangana, India
Architectural style	Hindu temple architecture
Maintained by	Archaeological Survey of India, Hyderabad circle
Heritage designation	Monument of National Importance
15° 52′ 38.78″ N, 78° 08′ 08.32″ E
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Alampur Navabrahma Temples are a group of nine 7th and 9th century early Chalukyan Hindu temples located at Alampuram (Hemalapuram) in Telangana. Though called Nava-Brahma temples, they are dedicated to Shiva. They exemplify early North Indian Nagara style architecture with cut rock as the building block. They are in ruins from post-14th century Sultanate raids, with an Islamic Dargah built from and inserted into temple compound near the Taraka Brahma temple. A village museum near the group shows the collection of ruined artwork and statues.

The temples themselves have remains of artwork related to Shaivism, Vaishnavism and Shaktism. Some surviving reliefs depicts legend from Hindu texts such as the Epics and the Panchatantra fables. The temples are notable for some of the earliest surviving records of different Nagara-style Hindu temple architecture.