Status: Listed with current timings on the official Odisha Tourism site (checked 29 Oct 2026).
Tenth-century Shiva temple called the jewel box of Kalinga architecture, famous for its carved arched gateway (torana).
Built around the 10th century CE under the Somavamsi king Jajati I, the small Mukteswara Temple has a deula tower and a pyramid-roofed jagamohana. Its stone torana is carved with lion heads and makara motifs, and the walls show maidens and ascetics. The Marichi Kunda tank is in the complex, and the Parasurameswar Temple stands about 100 m away.
Within 1 km of Mukteswara Temple.
State museum founded in 1932, best known for palm-leaf manuscripts, stone sculptures, coins and tribal objects.
One of the oldest surviving temples of Bhubaneswar, a small seventh-century Shiva shrine of the Sailodbhava period.
State tribal museum showing dress, jewellery, tools, instruments and life-size huts of the tribes of Odisha.
Ninth-century open-air circular shrine of 64 yoginis at Hirapur, one of only four such yogini temples in India.
museum of Tribal Arts and Artifacts
museum in India
Hindu temple situated near Bhubaneswar
temple in Bhubaneswar, India
Twelfth-century Kalinga-style temple of Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra; one of the four Char Dham shrines and the heart of Puri.
Hilltop shrine of the twin goddesses Tara and Tarini on Kumari hill above the Rushikulya river, near Purushottampur in Ganjam.
Shakti Peetha of Goddess Biraja (Durga) at Jajpur town, about 125 km north of Bhubaneswar, important for ancestor rites.
Sixteenth-century temple of Maa Samaleswari on the Mahanadi at Sambalpur, the presiding goddess of western Odisha.
Hindu temple in India
building in India
building in India
temple in India