🛡️ *Kedarnath Temple* ♟️It is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva. ♟️ *Location* It is located at a height of 3,584 meters on the Garhwal Himalayan range near the Mandakini river, in the Rudraprayag District of Uttarakhand. ♟️Kedarnath forms one of the four sites of the Chota Char DhamPilgrimage circuit, and is one of the 12 Jyotirlingas of Lord Shiva in India. ♟️Who build it? It is said that the Pandavas constructed the Kedarnath Temple which was later reconstructed by Adi Shankaracharya in the 8th century A.D. 💎 *Architecture* ♟️It has exquisite architecture and is built of extremely large but evenly shaped grey stone slabs. ♟️The stone slabs are interlocked with each other with the use of iron clamps. ♟️No mortar has been used in the construction of the temple. ♟️There is a conical rock structure inside the Kedarnath temple that is worshipped as the Sadashiva form of Shiva. ♟️A “Garba Griha” for worship and a Mandap for pilgrims is placed inside the temple. 💎 *What is Chota Char Dham Yatra?* ♟️It refers to the journey up the mountains to four sacred temples in the North Indian state of Uttarakhand. ♟️The four temples that comprise Chota Char Dham are Yamunotri Dham, Gangotri Dham, Badrinath Dham and Kedarnath Dham. 💎 *What are Jyotirlingas?* ♟️A Jyotirlinga is a shrine where Lord Shiva is worshipped in the form of a Jyotirlingam. ♟️There are currently 12 main Jyotirlingas in India. ♟️The 12 Jyotirlinga temples in India take the name of the presiding deity. Each considered a different manifestation of Lord Shiva. 12 Jyotirlingas in India are: ♟️Somnath Jyotirlinga in Gir, Gujarat, ♟️Mallikarjuna Jyotirlinga in Srisailam, Andhra Pradesh, ♟️Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, ♟️Omkareshwar Jyotirlinga in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, ♟️Baidyanath Jyotirlinga in Deoghar, Jharkhand, ♟️Bhimashankar Jyotirlinga in Maharashtra, ♟️Ramanathaswamy Jyotirlinga in Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu, ♟️Nageshwar Jyotirlinga in Dwarka, Gujarat, ♟️Kashi Vishwanath Jyotirlinga in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, ♟️Trimbakeshwar Jyotirlinga in Nasik, Maharashtra, ♟️Kedarnath Jyotirlinga in Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand, ♟️Ghrishneshwar Jyotirlinga in Aurangabad, Maharashtra.