Kedarnath Temple
Kedarnath, Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand
Lord Shiva
Type
Hindu Temple
Deity
Lord Shiva
Pincode
246445
A Jyotirlinga shrine of Lord Shiva and one of the four Char Dham pilgrimage sites, set above 3,500 metres in the Himalayas. Legend attributes its founding to the Pandavas, and the temple — reached only by a roughly 16-km trek and open a few months each year due to snow — survived the devastating 2013 Uttarakhand floods largely intact.
History & Significance
Significance
A Jyotirlinga shrine of Shiva and one of the four Char Dham pilgrimage sites, set above 3,500 metres in the Himalayas. Hindu tradition attributes its founding to the Pandavas of the Mahabharata; the stone structure standing today is believed to date to around the 8th century CE, associated with the philosopher Adi Shankaracharya.