Marikamba Temple, Sirsi, Karnataka
Date built: | 1688 |
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Deity: | – |
Architectural style: | Kavi Art |
Major festivals | – |
Locale: | Sirsi, Karnataka, India |
District:: | Sirsi |
Address: | Sirsi-Banavasi Rd, Sirsi, Karnataka 581402 |
Phone | 08384226360 |
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Architecture
The temple’s façade, a 19th-century addition, is painted blue. After one enters through the façade, there is courtyard in the middle, which has cloisters surrounding it. The cloisters are filled with images of deities from the Hindu epics. The changes made inside the temple have hidden any evidence of older structures. The sanctum sanctorum has the central image of a fierce form of the goddess Durga, multi-armed (eight shoulders), riding a tiger and killing a demon. It is believed that the 7-foot-tall (2.1 m) image was retrieved from a pond on the road to Hanagal. The temple has very special paintings of murals in Kaavi art, an art form which was popular in the coastal Konkan region of Karnataka. In this art form, now extinct, the top plastered layer of the mural was first dyed with a red pigment, which when removed revealed a lower white layer of plaster over which the murals were created
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