Ramappa Temple, Warangal, Andra pradesh india

Ramappa Temple 800 years completion celebration held on 17-06-2012 sunday.

 Today ten thousand candle celebrations conducted.

Ramappa Temple

Ramappa Temple also known as the Ramalingeswara temple, is located 77 km  from warangal,the ancient capital of the katiya dynasty 157 km from Hyderabad in the state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India.  It lies in a valley at Palampet village of Venkatapur Mandal, in erstwhile Mulug Taluq of Warangal district,

Ramappa Temple - View from Royal Garden

Ramappa Temple--Nandhi Mandapam

Ramappa Lake

 This medieval temple is a Shivalaya (where Shiva is worshipped) and named after the sculptor Ramappa, a Vishwakarma Brahmin Sthapathi of Karnataka State, who built it rather that after its presiding deity, Ramalingeswara, perhaps to accent Shiva's importance as the personal god of the Avatar of Vishnu, Rama. The history says that it took 40 years to build this temple.

This beautiful temple, an example of brilliant Kakatiya dynasty art, Planned and sculpted by Vishwakarma Brahmin Sthapathis^{[citation needed]} was built on the classical pattern of being lifted above the world on a high star-shaped platform. Intricate carvings line the walls and cover the pillars and ceilings. Starting at its base to its wall panels, pillars and ceiling are sculpted figures drawn from Hindu mythology.^[2] The roof (garbhalayam) of the temple is built with bricks, which are so light that they are able to float on water.^[3]

The hall in front of the sanctum is filled with exquisitely carved pillars that are placed as to combine light and space wonderfully with the finely chiselled walls and ceiling. There are two small Shiva shrines on either side of the main temple that are completely ruined. The enormousNandi within, facing the shrine of Shiva, remains in good condition. In most of the shiva temples, the Nandi was strait to deity but in the temples built by KAKATIYAS the nandi is in an alert position and waiting for the order of lord shiva. Acharya Nataraja Ramakrishna revived PERINI SHIVATHANDAVAM (Perini Dance), by seeing the sculptures in this temple. The dance poses written in NRITTA RATHNAVALI by JAYAPA SENAANI also appears in these sculptures. The temple built area is 5 acres and a twenty acres of land was developed by the greenery around the temple. A total of 25 km radio us found historic temples in the district.

Nearest Famous Places Ramappa:
 LAKNAVARAM LAKE
MADARAM SAMMAKKA SARAKKA JATHARA
MALLURU LAXMI NARASIHA SWAMY TEMPLE