Where every temple is found, honoured, and known.
Most of India’s temples are undocumented, unverified and invisible online. DharmSetu gives each one a structured identity — and publishes who verified it, and when.
यतो धर्मस्ततो जयः
Where dharma is, victory follows
Jagannath Temple, Puri, Odisha · Kalyanpuranand · CC BY-SA 4.0
Nāgara
North India
Drāviḍa
Tamil country
Kaliṅga
Odisha
Vesara
The Deccan
A record of every temple, and proof of who stood behind it.
DharmSetu is a registry before it is anything else. The interesting part is not the list — it is what a listing has to survive before it appears on it.
Verified before it is visible
A listing stays out of public search until a trained volunteer has stood in front of the building.
Coordinates confirmed on foot
GPS taken on site, not scraped from a search engine — which is why the district atlases can be trusted.
An audit trail you can read
Who verified what, on what date, against which document. Published, not filed away.
Written with the trust’s consent
Histories, festival calendars and sthal puranas are recorded with permission and attributed to whoever told them.
Four seals, earned in order.
A temple at level one is invisible to the public. Visibility begins at level two, and every seal after it is a dated, attributable event that anybody can read.
- 1Seal
Self
Self registered
A temple submits its own listing. Visible to administrators only — it does not appear in search, in the atlas, or in the public API.
Admin only
- 2Seal
Volunteer
Volunteer verified
A trained volunteer visits in person. Photographs taken on site, coordinates confirmed. This is where the listing becomes public.
Publicly visible
- 3Seal
Document
Document verified
Trust registration, deeds and pujari KYC uploaded and checked against the record. The second seal.
Publicly visible
- 4Seal
Community
Community trusted
Sustained good standing, no open flags, active seva. The highest seal — earned over time, never granted on request.
Publicly visible
The routes that order the map
India's temples are not a flat list. They are grouped into circuits walked for centuries — twelve Jyotirlinga, four Dhams, fifty-one Shakti Peethas — and the atlas is arranged the way pilgrims actually travel it.
सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः सर्वे सन्तु निरामयाः।
सर्वे भद्राणि पश्यन्तु मा कश्चिद्दुःखभाग्भवेत्॥
May all be happy. May all be free from illness. May all see what is good. May no one suffer.
Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad
Airavatesvara Temple, Darasuram, Tamil Nadu · Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0
Temples, as the record has them
कुल वृक्ष
Your own family tree
Record who you come from — names, years, gotra, kul devta and native village — then print it for the wall or save it. No account needed, and nothing leaves your device until you ask.
- दादा
- father's father
- नाना
- mother's father
- ताऊ
- father's elder brother
- चाचा
- father's younger brother
- बुआ
- father's sister
- मौसी
- mother's sister
Stories worth passing on
Start with one temple.
Every entry in the atlas carries its history, its timings, its coordinates and the record of who confirmed them. Open any one of them.
Verification before visibility