Shri Jagannath Puri Temple

For other uses, see Jagannath Temple (disambiguation).

The Shri Jagannath Puri Temple is a provincial heritage site in Inanda in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

In 1979, it was described in the Government Gazette as

23m high tower (shikhara), single entrance capped by an octangenal squat shape and a dome...This richly ornamented temple was constructed by Pandit Shiskishan Maharaj, a Hindu priest who immigrated to South Africa in 1895. The temple, surrounded by a moat, was dedicated to the Hindu god Jagannath.

References

South African Heritage Resource Agency database

Jagannath worship

Deities

Temples

Odisha	Puri Gundicha Temple Baripada Gunupur Koraput Nayagarh Bhubaneswar Kendrapara Chhatia Bata Dharakote Patali Srikhetra Barbil

Other parts of India	Agartala Ahmedabad Bangalore Chennai Delhi Hyderabad Ranchi Medinipur Alwar Mahesh Hajo

Abroad	Comilla Dhamrai Pabna South Africa Sialkot

Festivals and ceremonies

Texts

Devotees

See also

Category

Hindu temples in South Africa

Clairwood Shree Siva Soobramoniar Temple Madhya Kailash Temple Mariamman Temple, Pretoria Mount Edgecombe Ganesha Temple Narainsamy Temple Shri Jagannath Puri Temple

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