Key facts
- Affiliation
- Hinduism
- District
- Anantnag
- Deity
- Shiva
- Festivals
- Maha Shivaratri
- Location
- Pahalgam
- State
- Jammu & Kashmir
- Country
- India
- Elevation
- 3,888 m (12,756 ft)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Hindu temple
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Anantnag district
- Elevation
- 3888
- Dedicated to
- Shiva
- Official website
- www.shriamarnathjishrine.com
- Image
- Cave Temple of Lord Amarnath.jpg
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- Amarnath
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
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Encyclopedic overview
Amarnath Temple is a Hindu shrine in the Pahalgam tehsil of Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is a cave at an altitude of 3,888 m (12,756 ft), about 168km from Anantnag, the district headquarters, 141 km (88 mi) from Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir. It is an important shrine in Hinduism.
The cave, in Sind Valley, is surrounded by glaciers and covered with snow most of the year, except for a short period in the summer, when it is open to pilgrims. In 1989, pilgrims numbered between 12,000 and 30,000. In 2011, the numbers reached a peak, crossing 6.3 lakh (630,000) pilgrims. In 2018 pilgrims numbered 2.85 lakh (285,000). The annual pilgrimage varies between 20 and 60 days.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amarnath Temple” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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