Bhimashankar
Bhimashankar is a temple town that is about 100 km from Pune and 223 km from Mumbai in Western Maharashtra. It is considered to be one of the holiest places in India and is also a popular trekking destination.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ashutosh.Mishra, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: Shiva ( Jyotirlinga) temple in Maharashtra, India
- Also known as: “Bhīmāshankar” and “Bhimashankar Temple”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary and Padargad.
Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary
Nature reserve
Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary was created in the Ambegaon and Khed talukas of Pune District, in the Western Indian state of Maharashtra in order mainly to protect the habitat of the Indian Giant Squirrel.
Padargad
Fort
Padargad is a small fort used for vigilance in the past. is situated to the east of Karjat in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is on the Bhimashanker trek route in the Karjat area, because of its height and difficult climbing, it is not visited by most of the trekkers.
Bhimashankar
- Categories: pilgrimage site, Hindu temple, and locality
- Location: Khed, Pune, Maharashtra, Western India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
19.072° or 19° 4′ 19″ northLongitude
73.5358° or 73° 32′ 9″ eastElevation
919 metres (3,015 feet)Open location code
7JFM3GCP+Q8OpenStreetMap ID
node 3077355144OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Telugu—“Bhimashankar” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “ভীমশংকর মন্দির”
- Bengali: “ভীমশংকর”
- Catalan: “Bhimashankar”
- Dutch: “Bhimashankar Temple”
- Egyptian Arabic: “معبد بهيماشانكار”
- German: “Bhimashankar”
- Gujarati: “ભીમાશંકર”
- Hindi: “भीमाशंकर मंदिर”
- Hindi: “भीमाशंकर”
- Kannada: “ಭೀಮಾಶಂಕರ ದೇವಾಲಯ”
- Maithili: “भीमाशंकर”
- Maithili: “भीमाशङ्कर”
- Malayalam: “Bhimashankar Temple”
- Malayalam: “ഭീമശങ്കർ ക്ഷേത്രം”
- Malayalam: “ഭീമാശങ്കർ ക്ഷേത്രം”
- Marathi: “भिमाशंकर”
- Marathi: “भीमाशंकर मंदिर”
- Marathi: “भीमाशंकर”
- Nepali: “भीमाशंकर”
- Newari: “भीमाशंकर”
- Oriya: “Bhimashankar Temple”
- Oriya: “ଭୀମାଶଙ୍କର ମନ୍ଦିର”
- Russian: “Бхимашанкар”
- Sanskrit: “भीमशङ्करः”
- Spanish: “Bhimashankar”
- Tamil: “பீமாசங்கர் கோயில்”
- Telugu: “భీమశంకర లింగము - భీమా శంకరం”
- Telugu: “భీమా శంకరం”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bhimashankar”. Photo: Ashutosh.Mishra, CC BY-SA 4.0.