Status: Listed with current timings on the official Odisha Tourism site (checked 29 Oct 2026).
Hilltop shrine of the twin goddesses Tara and Tarini on Kumari hill above the Rushikulya river, near Purushottampur in Ganjam.
The temple sits on the Kumari hills overlooking the Rushikulya river and is revered as one of the Adi Shakti Peethas. The sanctum has two stone faces of the goddesses with brass heads. It is about 30 km from Gopalpur.
Shakti Peetha of Goddess Biraja (Durga) at Jajpur town, about 125 km north of Bhubaneswar, important for ancestor rites.
Eleventh-century sandstone temple of Shiva as Harihara, the largest temple of Bhubaneswar, with a spire close to 180 ft.
Twelfth-century Kalinga-style temple of Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra; one of the four Char Dham shrines and the heart of Puri.
Sixteenth-century temple of Maa Samaleswari on the Mahanadi at Sambalpur, the presiding goddess of western Odisha.
Eleventh-century temple of red-gold sandstone with no presiding deity, known for its carved celestial maidens and dikpalas.
Rock-cut Jain caves on twin hills, carved in the 2nd century BCE under King Kharavela, with the Hathigumpha inscription.
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