Temple
Sri Anantheshwara
Most visitors walk straight past it. It is commonly held to be the oldest temple in the district, older than the famous one beside it.
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The Tulu-speaking coast of Karnataka: Dakshina Kannada and Udupi. Laterite walls under tiered tiled roofs, no gopurams, and four traditions living in the same few hundred square kilometres.
NArabian SeaWestern GhatsSwarnaShambhaviNetravatiKundapuraUdupiMangaloreSri AnantheshwaraSri Krishna MathaSri ChandramouleshwaraAnegudde Sri VinayakaPanchalingeshwaraSri DurgaparameshwariSri MookambikaGommateshwara, KarkalaKadri ManjunathaKudroli GokarnanathaBappanadu DurgaparameshwariSaavira Kambada Basadi
Udupi
8 places
Matha
Sri Krishna Matha
You do not see the deity from the main door. You see it through a small silver-plated window at the side, and there is a reason for that.
Temple
Sri Chandramouleshwara
The third temple in a precinct most people think has one. The Madhwa Vijaya calls it the eastern shrine.
Temple
Anegudde Sri Vinayaka
The elephant hillock. One of the seven Mukti Sthalas, and you climb to it.
Temple
Panchalingeshwara
The largest temple of a town that local historians say once held 365 of them.
Temple
Sri Durgaparameshwari
Here a vow is repaid in theatre. Devotees promise a night of Yakshagana, and the troupe performs it.
Temple
Sri Mookambika
Adi Shankara is said to have installed the Sri Chakra here, below a hill he had meditated on.
Basadi
Gommateshwara, Karkala
Forty-two feet of a single stone, raised in 1432, standing on a rock above the town.
Dakshina Kannada
4 places
Temple
Kadri Manjunatha
A Shiva temple widely held to have Buddhist origins, with a Nath yogi matha on the hill above it.
Temple
Kudroli Gokarnanatha
Built in 1912 for a community that other temples would not admit, and consecrated by Narayana Guru himself.
Temple
Bappanadu Durgaparameshwari
A Hindu temple whose founding legend credits a Muslim merchant, and which still carries his name.
Basadi
Saavira Kambada Basadi
A thousand pillars, and the claim locally is that no two are carved alike.