Overview of Andhra Pradesh Pilgrimages

At a glance

Region: Andhra Pradesh

Attractive Tourist Places: Tirupati, Vijaywada, Hyderabad, Visakhpatnam, Puttaparthi

Capital City: Hyderabad

Perfect Visiting Time: Month of October and March

The entire Andhra Pradesh state is a religious place and huge numbers of pilgrim do visit this state and also the tourists. The state contains many spiritual shrines, which are main attractive characteristic of this state. This state is very much rich and one of the most spiritual lands in the entire world. As per the other beautiful shrines of Southern India, shrines of Andhra Pradesh are also amazing and delightful because of its considerable architectural structure. One of the highly religious shrines and most visited pilgrimage Lord Venkateshwara is located in the state. Annually huge thousands of pilgrim visits this temple. This is a famous spiritual shrine, which is located within this state. There are plenty shrines, located at different places of state, but Lord Venkateshwara's temple is highly popular. Andhra Pradesh also has a pilgrimage, which is located at Amravati, over the Krishna River's banks. This pilgrimage is very essential point for Buddhists and also Hindus. The temple of Lord Amareswara is a must visiting destination of Hindu religion people. This is very old structure of Buddhist, which also attracts the Buddhist religious people. At this place, you will get to see the biggest stupa of Buddhist in the whole India. There is too Srisailam place, which was a residing point of the one Jyotirlinga among rest of twelve. This is a very historical shrine in the whole Southern part of India; this temple is worshipped and visited by Buddhists and also Hindu people. Andhra Pradesh state's city Hyderabad is majorly covered by the Muslim religion people; that why you will get to see several essential Muslim places. Among those essential temples of Muslim, Mecca Masjid is everybody knows, it is located in the popular Charminar's area.

 Birla Temple

This temple of Andhra Pradesh state is committed to the Lord Venkateshwara. This temple is situated in Hyderabad city. This is a most visited shrine of this state. This shrine has been constructed by the rich Birla Industry. The entire shrine is made of marble, from Rajasthan state, this marble was carried. This shrine is located over the hill called Kala Pahad. There are other attractive spots of the state such as Tankbund and Hussain Sagar Lake. The evening time is perfect time to have a view of this beautiful shrine, because at that time the whole temple enlighten. If you will carefully observe the difference between the South India's temples and North India's temple, you will surely get to see that incorporation in both the place's employs, works in the shrine. The internal structure of this temple is exactly similar to the temple of Tirupati. The shrine is decorated by elegant carving, which depicts the poetry belongs to the Ramayana.

Mecca Masjid 

This Muslim pilgrimage is located in the close area of the popular Charminar. This religious pilgrimage is admired structure of the Andhra Pradesh state. The bricks which were used to build this Mecca Masjid are carried from the Mecca region, that’s why this spiritual Masjid got the name Mecca. During the 1617, Qutb Shahis begun to build this Masjid, but he didn't completed the construction of this mosque. Later on, the construction was finished in 1694, through the initiative of Aurangazeb. This holy mosque is believed to be very spiritual because it contains many remnants like Prophet Mohammad's hair. The huge major hall of this mosque is a major attractive part, the height of this hall is about 75feet, length about 180 feet and wideness is around 220 feet. This mosque contains fifteen bows, each side has five. There are graves of marble of Nizam Khan, on the southern side of Mecca Masjid and also the Asaf Jahi emperor's families.

Lord Venkateswara Temple

This temple is situated at Tirupati. This religious temple does not need any kind of introduction for the Hindu religion people and also for entire the world. This is located over the Tirupati hill, this hill is about ten kilometers long from the Tiruapti. This is second most worshipped temple, after Vatican. People come to this temple to worship the Lord Venkateswara, as per the legends, the idol which this temple has is a self evidenced. This is a richest spiritual place within the entire world. The millions of pilgrims gifted many offerings to this temple; which shows there believe and love of devotees towards the Lord Venkateswara.

 Amaravati

This pilgrimage is essential for Buddhists and also Hindu religion people. Both religions' people worship this pilgrimage. The pilgrimage is committed to the Lord Shiva; the sculptures of this temple are Buddhist. It is located over the Krishna river banks, it is a very holy place and people say it has Sthalamahatyam. This shrine's major idols are Lord Amareswara and Bala Chamundika Goddess. At this pilgrimage, Lord Shiva is present in 5 Lingas, which have names like Kosalaeswara, Pranaveswara, Parthiveswara, Agasteswara and Someswara. This pilgrimage's architecture type is of Dravidian type and here you will get to see huge Shivalingam about fifteen feet. This huge Shivalingam is decorated by the carving of Vimana & Gopurams. Amravati place is very ancient site of Buddhist in the whole India and it has huge stupa.