Jogulamba and the Nava Brahma Temples, Alampur

01The western gate of Srisailam

Alampur is called the western gate of Srisailam, and pilgrims to Mallikarjuna once entered the sacred zone here. Jogulamba is counted fifth among the eighteen Maha Shakti Peethas. Beside her stand the Nava Brahma temples, nine Shiva shrines named Bala Brahma, Kumara Brahma, Arka Brahma, Vira Brahma, Vishva Brahma, Taraka Brahma, Garuda Brahma, Svarga Brahma and Padma Brahma. They were built under the Chalukyas of Badami in the 7th and 8th centuries with curved northern-style shikharas, unusual so far south, and their walls are among the best Chalukya carving outside Karnataka.

02615 years in another shrine

In 1390 the Jogulamba temple was destroyed by the forces of the Bahmani Sultanate. The priests saved the murti of the Devi and kept her in the Bala Brahmeshwara temple, and there she was worshipped for more than six centuries. A new Jogulamba temple was built on the original site, and on 13 February 2005 the Devi was installed in it. When the Srisailam dam was built in the 1980s, several Alampur temples standing in the backwater zone were moved stone by stone to higher ground.

The life of this place