Uttareswar Temple

Uttaresvara Siva Temple is a Lord Siva temple located in Bhubaneswar, Orissa.It is a 12th-century Hindu temple located within a precinct at the northern embankment of Bindusagar tank in the Nalamuhana Sahi, Kedara-Gouri Chowk, Old Town, Bhubaneswar. The deity here is in the form of a Siva lingam within a circular yoni pitha placed at the centre of the sanctum. The actual temple is destroyed.This is depicted from the renovation work above the pabhaga and presence of cult images of earlier phase in various parts of the temple walls without conforming to the canonical prescriptions.Within the precinct along with nine lesser shrines,this is the main temple.The temple got its name as it is located in the northern embankment of Bindusagar and north of Lingaraj temple. It is one of the four pithas.The remaining pithas are Bhoga pitha at Lingaraj, Yoga pitha at Kharakhia Baidyanath and Siddha Pitha at KedaraGouri temple. So, Uttaresvara is called Tantra pitha.