{"id":10471,"date":"2023-05-08T09:24:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T03:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10471"},"modified":"2025-03-29T20:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T14:59:19","slug":"tungnath-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tungnath-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Tungnath Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Tungnath Temple:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>:It is located in <strong>Rudraprayag District, Uttarakhand<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>highest Shiva temple in the world<\/strong> nestled at an altitude of <strong>3680 meters.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>one of the PanchKedars<\/strong> and is believed to have belonged to an ancient era <strong>almost 1000 years old.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was built in the <strong>North Indian style of architecture <\/strong>and has a dozen <strong>shrines of other Gods surrounding the temple<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What are PanchKedars?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Panch Kedar is a <strong>group of five sacred shrines of Lord Shiva located in the Garhwal Himalayas, Uttarakhand.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The five temples are the <strong>Kedarnath Temple<\/strong> at an altitude of 3,583 m (11,755 ft), the <strong>Tungnath Temple<\/strong> (3,680 m or 12,070 ft), the <strong>Rudranath Temple<\/strong> (3,559 m or 11,677 ft), the <strong>Madhyamaheshwar Temple or Madmaheshwar<\/strong> (3,490 m or 11,450 ft) and the <strong>Kalpeshwar Temple<\/strong> (2,200 m or 7,200 ft).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What are PanchKedars?<\/h3>\n<p>Panch Kedar is a group of five sacred shrines of Lord Shiva located in the Garhwal Himalayas, Uttarakhand.The five temples are the Kedarnath Temple at an altitude of 3,583 m (11,755 ft), the Tungnath Temple (3,680 m or 12,070 ft), the Rudranath Temple (3,559 m or 11,677 ft), the Madhyamaheshwar Temple or Madmaheshwar (3,490 m or 11,450 ft) and the Kalpeshwar Temple (2,200 m or 7,200 ft).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/nation\/2023\/may\/08\/uttrakhands-ancient-tungnath-temple-to-be-declared-a-national-monument-2572989.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Uttrakhand&#8217;s ancient Tungnath temple to be declared a national monument<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tungnath Temple is the highest Shiva temple in the world nestled at an altitude of 3680 meters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}