Ramappa-Temple

Ramappa Temple otherwise called the Ramalingeswara sanctuary, is found 77 km from Warangal, the antiquated capital of the Kakatiya administration, 157 km from Hyderabad in the province of Telangana in southern India. It lies in a valley at Palampet town of Venkatapur Mandal, in recent Mulug Taluq of Jayashankar Bhupalpally locale, a little town long past its long stretches of brilliance in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.An engraving in the sanctuary dates it to the year 1213 AD and says it was worked by a General Recherla Rudra, amid the time of the Kakatiya ruler Ganapati Deva. The sanctuary is a Shivalaya, where Lord Ramalingeswara is loved.

It stands grandly on a 6 ft high star-formed stage. The corridor before the sanctum has various cut columns that have been situated to make an impact that joins light and space magnificently. The sanctuary is named after the stone worker Ramappa, who manufactured it, and is maybe the main sanctuary in India to be named after a specialist who constructed it.History says that it took 40 years to fabricate this sanctuary. The primary structure is in a ruddy sandstone, however the segments round the outside have vast sections of dark basalt. These are cut as legendary creatures or female artists or artists, and are "the magnum opuses of Kakatiya craftsmanship, remarkable for their fragile cutting, sexy stances and extended bodies and heads".