The Kadu Malleshwara Temple kn, ಕಾಡು ಮಲ್ಲೇಶ್ವರ is a 17th-century A.D.

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temple dedicated to the

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located in the

Malleshwara Malleshwara (also referred as Malleshwaram) is a northwest neighborhood and one of the zones of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike in Bengaluru, India. It was planned in 1889 after the great plague of 1898, developed as a suburb in 1892 and ...

locality of

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. The word 'Kadu' means forests, here referring to the thick greenery all around the temple.

About

The temple was built in the 17th century A.D. by Venkoji, the brother of the

Maratha The Marathi people (Marathi: मराठी लोक) or Marathis are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are indigenous to Maharashtra in western India. They natively speak Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language. Maharashtra was formed as a M ...

King

Shivaji Shivaji Bhonsale I (; 19 February 1630 – 3 April 1680), also referred to as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, was an Indian ruler and a member of the Bhonsle Maratha clan. Shivaji carved out his own independent kingdom from the declining Adils ...

in Dravidian style of architecture. Shiva is worshipped as Mallikarjun. One part of the temple,

Nandishwara Teertha Temple Sri Dakshinamukha Nandi Tirtha Kalyani Kshetra is a small temple located in front of the Gangamma temple and diagonally opposite to the Kadu Malleshwara temple on 2nd Temple Street, Malleswaram layout in the north-western area of Bangalore ci ...

(Basava Theertha), is in front of the temple. It is said to be the main source or birthplace of the

Vrishabhavathi River The Vrishabhavathi River is a minor river, a tributary of the Arkavathy, that flows through the south of the Indian city of Bangalore. The river was once so pristine that the water from it was used for drinking and used by the famous Gali Anjane ...

Architecture

Kadu Malleshwara Temple is developed in the Dravidian engineering style amid the reign of King Venkojirao Bhonsle of Thanjavur.

Festivals

The main annual festival is

Shivaratri Maha Shivaratri ( IAST: Mahāśivarātri) is a Hindu festival celebrated annually in honour of the god Shiva. The name also refers to the night when Shiva performs the heavenly dance called Tandava. In every month of the luni-solar Hindu c ...

. Thousands of devotees from Bengaluru and around visit this temple on the holy day of Shivratri festival.

Connectivity

The temple is located in Malleswaram locality of Bengaluru. Bengaluru is well connected by air, road and railways. It can be reached via air at Bangalore International Airport which is located at a distance of 40 km from the city. Bengaluru receives various trains from all over the India and is well connected by roadways.

References

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