28Oct,2023
More than 25,000 rodents call this temple home. The rats not only live there but also consume food alongside humans. It’s all because of Karni Mata, the deity of the local Charan caste whose male sons were believed to be reincarnated as rats.
The only lake temple in the state, it’s a charming structure, though an unremarkable one in a country known for striking religious architecture, save for one thing. There is a real crocodile living in the pond
Visitors come here not only for the spectacular architecture but also to meet the monkeys that live on the premises of Galtaji temple.
Deep in the country’s heartland, in the state of Telangana, you can find the Naga Devatha Temple, which is designed to look like a giant orange snake with a flute-playing Hindu god Krishna on top of it.
The cow is a sacred animal in India and worshippers can visit a temple with a 15-foot tall idol of a giant bull (known locally as Nandi). The animal was carved from granite more than 500 years ago and still stands strong today.
Wild sloth bears come here daily to participate in the prayer services and amaze the crowds of temple visitors. The plot twist is that the bears aren’t restricted by anything except a few men who look to ensure that the creatures don’t make any trouble.
Kapaleeshwarar boasts a great number of animal idols, including numerous cow statues on the entrance towers, a bull shrine, blue elephant figures inside the temple, and colorful peacocks everywhere you look.