India is known for its beauty, culture, and religious places. There are crores of temples in India where you will get to see temples of every god. Devotees come from all over the country and abroad to visit these temples. But if we tell you that there are many temples among these temples where animals are worshipped, then what would you say? You will be surprised but this is absolutely true. There are many temples in India where idols of animals are worshipped. Animals are viewed with great reverence in these temples. Some legends are also prevalent behind the worship of animals in these temples. Let us know about those temples where animals are worshipped.

Dog Temple, Karnataka
This Dog Temple is located in Channapatna in Ramanagara district of Karnataka. This temple was built by a businessman in the year 2010. The same businessman also built the Kempamma Temple, which is dedicated to the main goddess of the village, Kempamma. According to local legends, the temple is said to have been established when the villagers were instructed by Goddess Kempamma to find two dogs, which had gone missing from the village long ago, to protect her temple from evil. Since the villagers could not find the dogs, they built a temple and placed the idols of two dogs inside it. Today the villagers worship these idols of dogs. According to another legend, the Dog Temple was built to honor the loyalty of dogs towards humans.

Monkey Temple, Jaipur
You must have seen the terror of monkeys in temples, from which people hide to save their belongings. But there is a temple in Jaipur, where monkeys are considered very sacred. Galtaji Temple in the city is known as the Monkey Temple where monkeys are worshipped. There is no entry fee for tourists here and if you want to feed the monkeys, you can buy things like dry fruits or bananas from here. In the evening, a large crowd of tourists is seen here to see the monkeys.

Mannarasala Nagaraja Temple, Kerala
Mannarasala Nagaraja Temple is located in Haripad, Kerala. This is a very ancient temple and is dedicated to Nagraj Dev. This temple is famous internationally. It is the only temple of its kind in the state of Kerala, India. This temple has excellent carvings ranging from beautiful snake sculptures. The Mannarasala temple has over 100,000 images of snakes along the paths and among the trees. Although devotees come to this temple from far and wide, a couple expecting a child especially gets the puja done here. They also come here to organize Thanksgiving ceremonies for the birth of their child and often offer snake images here as Prasad.

Rat Temple, Rajasthan
Whenever we see a rat in the house, we start planning day and night to drive it away, but there is a temple in India where rats are worshiped with a true heart. Karni Mata Temple of Rajasthan is known for being inhabited by rats. The interesting thing is that rats eat food with the people who come here to worship. The temple is home to 20,000 rats and interestingly, no case of plague or other diseases has been reported in this area so far. Local people believe that Karni Mata was born in the form of a rat after her death. Happened in. They also believe that when a rat dies in the field, it is reborn in the temple.

Bhalu Mandir, Chhattisgarh
Chandi Mata Temple is located in Chhattisgarh. This temple is very special in many ways. In this temple of Mahasamund, Chhattisgarh, at the time of Aarti, some bears come to this temple, eat prasad from the priest circumambulate nine times, and go away. Not only this, devotees also give food and prasad to the bears here. Interestingly, he never hurt the people of the temple. Due to the presence of bears, Chandi Mata Temple has become famous among the people by the name of Bear Temple.

Bull Temple, Bengaluru
Not only the cow, but the bull is also considered quite sacred by the people in some parts of the country. There is one such temple in Bengaluru, where bulls are worshiped by devotees. This temple, popularly known as Bull Temple, is one of the famous tourist attractions in Bengaluru. A huge granite statue of Nandi (bull) is housed in this beautiful temple. It is believed that the Visva Bharati river originates from the feet of this statue. It is said that the temple was built to control a bull that destroyed all the crops in the area.

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