the outer walls show many major variants of Dravida and Nagara shikhara (superstructure) styles; it is about northeast from Halebidu. Lakshminarasimha Temple, Haranhalli and Someshvara Temple, Haranhalli – a set of Hindu temples from 1234 CE, with a complex two-storey Vesara-architecture, one dedicated to Vishnu avatars and the other to Shiva, but they include major reliefs of Vaishnavism, Shaivism and Shaktism; about east from Halebidu. Ishvara Temple, Arasikere – a Vesara and Hoysala architecture Hindu temple for Shiva that illustrates the dome-style Hindu architecture for mandapa built about a hundred years before the first invasion of Delhi Sultanate and the start of Deccan version of the Indo-Islamic architecture. It is about 40 kilometers east-northeast of Halebidu. Lakshmi Devi Temple, Doddagaddavalli – one of the earliest Hoysala temples, four sanctums and beautifully carved; ; about south of Halebidu. Shravanabelagola, Channarayapatna: a major group of many Jain and Hindu monuments; it is about southeast from Belur on National Highway 75, one of the most important Digambara Jainism pilgrimage site in South India. Nuggehalli group of temples – about to the east of Halebidu, with the Lakshminarasimha temple featuring an ingenious structure that makes three sanctums appear as one sanctum from outside; a Vesara architecture from the 13th-century. The other major temple in the village called the Sadasiva Temple, Nuggehalli is a remarkable Hoysala synthesis of north Indian Nagara architecture with South Indian ideas on architecture. Gallery See also Shravanabelagola Somanathapura Doddagaddavalli Javagal Banavara Notes References External links Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysala – Belur and Halebid, UNESCO World Heritage Sites Pending Application Package Hoysalesvara Temple, Halebid , Archaeological Survey of India, Bengaluru Circle Parsvanatha Basadi, Halebid , Archaeological Survey of India, Bengaluru Circle Kedaresvara Temple, Halebid , Archaeological Survey of India, Bengaluru Circle Shantinatha Basadi, Halebid , Archaeological Survey of India, Bengaluru Circle Step well, Hulikere Halebid , Archaeological Survey of India, Bengaluru Circle Cities and towns in Hassan district Archaeological sites in Karnataka Former capital cities in India 12th-century Hindu temples 12th-century Jain temples Colossal Jain statues in India