Jagdish Temple (Hindi: जगदीश मंदिर, उदयपुर) is a large Hindu temple in the middle of Udaipur in Rajasthan, India. The temple is raised on a tall terrace and was completed in 1651, and has been in continuous worship since then.
Jagdish Temple is the most beautiful example of Hindu Iconography, consisting of three stories of hand carved stone, with a steeple nearly 24 meters high and is the largest temple of Udaipur.
The original name of the temple was the temple of Jagannath Rai. Jagannath (Odia: ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ), literally means “Lord of the Universe”, is a deity worshipped in regional Hindu traditions in India and Bangladesh.
The outer wall of the Jagdish Temple is covered with reliefs. The theme of the reliefs is the Hindu worldview, which includes the animal world, the human world and the heaven from bottom to top.
The heaven part is engraved with various Hindu deities, including Yama (यम), the god of death, and Varuna (वरुण), the god of the sea. In the Hindu classic Rigveda, Yama is the first human to experience death and thus masters the power of death.
There are five halls in the Jagdish Temple, and the middle hall is dedicated to Vishnu, the protector of Hinduism.
Shiva, the god of destruction, one of the three main gods in Hinduism, is only worshipped in a small hall in the corner of the temple.
There are many women begging for money in the temple, no matter where they go, they are entangled endlessly, very disturbing.
