Skip to content


Kudroli Gokarnatheshwara Temple

Kudroli Gokarnatheshwara Temple at Mangalore is the only Temple in Karnataka set by Shri Narayana Guru, the great Philosopher , saint and social reformer from Kerala. The temple was renovated in the Chola Gopuram style from the Kerala Style in the year 1991 at a cost of Rs. 1 crore with 500 labourers working day and night for one & half years. The main deity of this temple is Shiva – the Shiva Linga is carved out of Amruthasile meaning ‘marble’ brought by Shri Narayana Guru from a place called Gokarna where he got it under water. The Navarathri Utsava is a famous annaul festival of this temple. the ninth day which is symbolic with agrand procession of Durga is on the likes of the Mysore Dassara.

Posted in Places of Interest.


0 Responses

Stay in touch with the conversation, subscribe to the RSS feed for comments on this post.



Some HTML is OK

or, reply to this post via trackback.