Top 3 Best Places Visiting in Morena – Temples, Forts & Natural Wonders

1.Shanichara Temple

Shri Shanichara Temple is the office of control of religious trust and endowment department Government of Madhya Pradesh. Shri Shanichara Temple complex is being made a religious pilgrim center for tourists. In the recent years due to the number of devotees being ever increasing, many development works and facilities are expanded here. Thousands of devotees reach the temple every Saturday from all over the country – Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi, Vihar, Gujarat and abroad from Nepal, Sri Lanka, New Zealand. On Shadvaja Trayodashi, a purely fair is held here, where 5.5 lac of devotees gather. To make Shanichara hill a beautiful, gentle and green hill, to construct many types of passenger facilities like separate large Bathing pool, etc., the place of dedication, clothing dedication, water facility from below, Dharamshala auditorium, Market Research and spiritual center, Ropway are in plan. In near future Shanichara Temple and its surroundings will be of famous religious tourist places and will be the centre of all economic and social development of Morena district of which we will witness. Your co-operation is solicited in the above holy work,

2.Sihoniya

Sihoniya is a town In Morena district of Madhya Pradesh state of India. The town is often called as Suhania; earlier it was known as Siṃhapānīya in the medieval era. Settlement is a place of ancientity and of notable monument(s), of which one is of national importance to be declared as a/p by Archaeological Survey of India.
The most famous temple at Sihoniya is again that of Śiva and named at present the Kakanmaṭh and is protected by the Archaeological Survey of India. A large temple was built in the 11th century on very large scale and is one of the very few remaining royal temples of Kacchapaghāta dynasty.

The most important temple of the town is dedicated to Ambikā Devī, its complex comprises two temples abutting each other, inside a compound wall. The buildings are constructed out of re-constituted and re-arranged pieces of existing architectural elements of all dates from ninth to thirteenth century.

Just south of Sihoniya lies prominent Jain temple and complex, Digambar Atishay Kṣetra. Jain stone sculptures from the region and other objects from surrounding area are situated here.

3.Chausath Yogini Temple

The Chausath Yogini temple is in Mitaoli village (also Mitavali or Mitawali), in Morena district 40 kilometres (25 mi) from Gwalior. It is believed that the temple was the center for educating astrology and mathematics according to the movement of the Sun.
The Archeological survey of India has declared the temple as ancient &the biggest under Act No. LXXI of 1951, dt.28/11/1951.

The Chausath Yogini Temple, Morena, also called Ekattarso Mahadeva Temple, Situated on a single in isolation hill of about hundred feet hight, it commands a grand view of the field below. This temple is called as such, because of presence of numerous shivalinga inside its cells. This round temple is one among the very few this kind of temples in India. This is a yogini temple in the honor of sixty four of yoginis.

Its perimeter is externally circular shaped with a diameter of 170 feet and inside there are 64 lesser cells. In the little underneath Its central shrine there are inchad slabs with the holes in them allowing the rain water to run into 1 great under ground tank. The pipe lines from the roof downward and leads the rain water to the accumulation is seen.
The structure of the temple was resistance to earthquakes, without any

damage to its circular design elements, in the past few centuries; The temple is situated in the Seismic Zone III.
Quite a number of these curious visitors have likened this temple to the Indian parliament house (Sansad Bhawan) (for both are round – – in design.) Many have written that this temple inpsired the architect of the Sansad Bhawan.

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