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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Airports in Uttarakhand, Bridges in Uttarakhand, Dams in Uttarakhand, Hindu temples in Uttarakhand, Railway stations in Uttarakhand, Sapta Badri, Panch Prayag, Panch Kedar, Mahasu Devta Temple, Tungnath, Loharinag Pala Hydro Power Project, Jageshwar, Guptakashi, Triyuginarayan Temple, Madhyamaheshwar, Badrinath Temple, Chota Char Dham, Yamunotri, Tehri Dam, Rudranath, Kedarnath Temple, Kalpeshwar, Chandi Devi Temple, Haridwar, St. Paul's Church, Landour, Haridwar Railway Station, Gangotri, Moteshwar Mahadev, Mansa Devi Temple, Haridwar, Daksheswara Mahadev Temple, Golu Devata, Neelkanth Mahadev Temple, Maya Devi Temple, Haridwar, Surkanda Devi, Pantnagar Airport, Baleshwar Temple, Chandrabadani Devi, Gopinath Mandir, Jolly Grant Airport, Garjiya Devi Temple, Lakshman Jhula, Assan barrage, Raj Bhavan, Rudreshwar Mahadev Temple, Koteswar. Excerpt: Sapta Badri (Sanskrit: ) constitutes a group of seven sacred Hindu temples, dedicated to god Vishnu, located in Garhwal Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. The Badrinath temple ( ), called the Badri-vishal ( - ) (altitude 3,133 m (10,279 ft)) is the primary temple among the seven shrines, followed by six others, namely, Adi Badri ( - ), Vridha Badri ( - ), Dhyan Badri ( - ), Ardha Badri ( - ), Bhavishya Badri ( - ) and Yogadhayan Badri ( - ). The Panch Badri ( - ) temple circuit consisted of only five temples, omitting Ardha Badri and Dhyan Badri or sometimes Vridha Badri. Rarely, Narasingh Badri ( - ) is included in the Sapta Badri or Panch Badri list. The abode of Vishnu in the Alaknanda river valley, starting from Satapanth about 24 kilometres (15 mi) above Badrinath extending up to Nandprayag in the south, is particularly known as the Badri-Kshetra in which all the Badri temples are lo...
