Danteshwari Temple

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Status: Active temple; centre of Bastar Dussehra.

Hindu goddess temple – one of 52 Shakti Pithas in India

Around it

Within 1 km of Danteshwari Temple.

Sights and heritage 3

11th century HIndu temple in south Chhattisgarh

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Vishnu temple of about 1111 AD near the Indravati-Narangi confluence, 4 km east of Chitrakote Falls.

Forest Shiva shrine near Gariaband around a huge natural rock linga that locals say keeps growing.

Old temple at Rajim near the Rajiv Lochan Temple.

Old temple in Adbhar village, Janjgir-Champa district.

11th-century Shiva temple near Kawardha, known as the Khajuraho of Chhattisgarh for its carvings.

Group of three Jain temples in Arang, east of Raipur, from the 9th-11th centuries.

7th to 8th century Hindu brick temple from Dakshina Kosala period

11th century Durga temple in Chhattisgarh