Kolar Temple

Kolar is one of the city located in the South India which is mainly known as the Kolar Gold Field shortly called as KGF. It mainly belongs to the Karnataka state and it is far away of about 68Kms from Bangalore. It is situated in the National Highway-4.

The main source of water supply to kolar is from kodikannur tank Which supplies water to the kolar people and the nearest railway station is at Bangarpet at a distance of 15km.Hiatorically the kolar was called as kuvalala and later on it came to known as Kolar.

The kolar is famous for some of the historical temples and also it Is said that Valmiki (author of Ramayanna) lived there and also the lord Sri Rama stayed here on his way back to the Ayodhya.The people who live here speak Kannada, Tamil and Telugu which are the main languages spoken here.

One of the most famous temple in the kolar is “Kolaramma Temple”. The Kolaramma temple is constructed in the ‘L’ shape and has two Shrines one for the lord Durgadevi (i.e, some call it as Kolaramma) and another one for Saptamatras. Both the god have same prirority.

The goddess Durgamba shrine has wagon-roof tower and the other
god are usually large to see.

The temple is so old that it was constructed in the 11century AD. The temple has some cholas scripting written on the stones about their ruling in that area. So, lot of devotees visit here to get the darshana of the goddess Durgamba.