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The directory

116 temples. One Shiva.

ॐ शिवक्षेत्रेभ्यो नमः

The 12 Jyotirlingas, the 5 Pancha Bhoota Sthalams, the 5 Panch Kedar, and 94 other significant Shiva temples. Each page is hand-sourced from temple authorities, historical records, and devotee accounts. The Yatra planner inside the app uses this same registry.

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The 116 temples

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The 12 Jyotirlingas

The twelve self-manifested shrines.

The Jyotirlingas are the twelve places where Shiva is said to have manifested as a column of light. The traditional pilgrimage covers all twelve across nine states.

The other six — Mallikarjuna, Omkareshwar, Bhimashankar, Baidyanath, Nageshwar, Grishneshwar — each have their own page.

Pancha Bhoota Sthalams

The five elemental Shiva temples.

Each of the five major elements — earth, water, fire, air, space — has its own Shiva temple in southern India where the linga is said to embody that element.

How the directory is built

One temple at a time. Cited and reviewed.

The 116-temple registry already powers the in-app Yatra planner with geo coordinates, deity form, and observance overlays. The web directory is the deeper page — significance, founding story, visiting guide, dress code, photography rules, related mantras, and a frequently-asked section for each.

We pull from at least three sources per temple — Wikipedia, the temple's official site, and an established mythology reference. Photography is exclusively public-domain or properly-licensed (Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA or equivalent) with attribution. Pages that don't yet hit the quality threshold stay noindex until they do — better to ship 30 great pages than 116 thin ones.

Schema-tagged with TouristAttraction, Place, and FAQPage markup so that AI search engines cite the canonical answer when someone asks "What time is the Bhasma Aarti at Mahakaleshwar?"