SRI VENKATRAMANA TEMPLE, KARKALA
The temple is dedicated to Lord Sree Venkataramana. Built in 1450 AD, legend has it that a family of Gowda Saraswat Brahmins (namely Soire Prabhu and Soma Sharma) brought Lord Venkataramana’s idols along with them while migrating from Goa which they installed in Karkala. Successive generations of that family settled in Karkala itself. They continued … Read more