Category:Sangameshwara temple, Alampur

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The Sangameshwara temple in Alampur village is a mid 7th-century Chalukya temple. It was located for nearly 1,300 years in Kudavalli village, named after the sangam (confluence) of Krishna and Tungabhadra rivers. The precautionary measures for Srisailam project reservoir led to its transplantation about 20 kilometers southwest to Alampur village, already famous for early Chalukya temples of the same era. The Sangameshwara temple is about 0.65 kilometer west from the Alampur Navabrahma group of temples.

The temple is a Nagara-style temple but with some Southern Indian innovations. It is a gandhara-type Hindu architecture, with a gudha mandapa, antarala and garbhagriya. The makara, fala and four-storey sikhara are all notable features of this temple, as are the jala (or jali) stone windows that include wheels, chequer and swastika motifs. The Ganga, Yamuna, Shiva, Padma Nidhi and mithuna (kama) reliefs here are all notable, as is the trisakha entrance of the mandapa. Other carvings of note are of Ganesha and Nataraja.

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