Browse by deity worshipped
These 29 categories are computed directly from every temple's own free-text deity listing โ not a hand-maintained list โ so a temple with several shrines under one roof can (and often does) appear in more than one category.
- Shiva269
- Vishnu (other forms)229
- Devi / Shakti (general)169
- Krishna143
- Ganesha72
- Durga70
- Murugan (Kartikeya/Skanda)52
- Lakshmi45
- Hanuman44
- Rama (Ramachandra)42
- Swaminarayan31
- Venkateswara (Balaji)28
- Kali21
- Jagannath19
- Narasimha16
- Saraswati14
- Navagraha (Nine Planetary Deities)12
- Surya12
- Brahma10
- Ayyappa8
- Nataraja7
- Bhairava6
- Parashurama4
- Sai Baba of Shirdi4
- Dattatreya3
- Vamana2
- Kurma1
- Varaha1
- Matsya0
38 temples don't fall cleanly into any category above โ usually because their deity is explicitly unspecified in available sources, or names a figure outside this taxonomy (e.g. Vishwakarma, Valmiki, Sai Baba of Shirdi).