The twelve Jyotirlingas.

What is a Jyotirlinga?

Jyoti means light and linga is the aniconic form in which Shiva is worshipped, so a Jyotirlinga is a shrine where Shiva is venerated as a self-manifested column of light rather than as an image. Twelve of these shrines are singled out by tradition, and they are enumerated in the Dvādasha Jyotirlinga Stotram — a Sanskrit hymn traditionally attributed to Adi Shankaracharya — which is why the order on this page begins at Somnath in Gujarat and ends at Grishneshwar in Maharashtra rather than running geographically.

How to use this page

The twelve are spread across seven states, so very few devotees reach all of them in one lifetime; the pilgrimage is usually made in stages over years. Each card below opens either a live darshan stream, where the temple publishes an official one, or a guide to that shrine's significance, aarti timings and practical visiting notes. Live streams follow the temple's own schedule in IST, so a shrine that is dark right now will come on air at its next aarti.