Karnataka Temples - 5. Srirangapatna Narasimhaswamy Temple

Sri Narasimhaswamy Temple is about 5 minutes walk from the Ranganathaswamy temple. We reached the temple at around 1:20 PM and the temple was closed. I am still writing about the temple since it seems to be a place that pilgrims should visit.

The Narasimhaswamy temple is about 1000 years old and should have been as popular as the Ranganathaswamy temple. But I did not see anyone from the crowd going toward this temple. A bit of goggling reveals that the lack of crowd was not just because I reached there late. Wonder why this ancient temple, right in the middle of a tourist area, is not getting the needed attention.

The vastness and implicit grandeur of the outside area of the temple tells the story of a place that once had a lot of attention. The dilapidated walls and statutes tell the current story.