Shravanabelagola Travel Guide

Nestled between the hills of Vindyagiri and Chandragiri is a small yet popular town of Shravanabelagola. Shravanabelagola – home to 2300 years old Jain heritage is a place of luxuriant natural beauty with swaying coconut trees, and natural water bodies. Renowned as one of the prominent Jain pilgrimage sites not only because of its huge monolithic statue of Lord Gomatheeswara, but also for its various Jain temples, which are an architectural delight, Shravanabelagola epitomises the Jain way of life that spreads the message of non-violence through its peaceful environs.

So come and explore the charms of this quaint little town and get awed by the massiveness of the statue of Lord Gomatheeswara as he blesses everyone.

The name of Shravanabelagola means the ‘land of ponds’ in the local language.