Bhairaveshwara Temple- Bhairapur,Mudigere Chikmagalur

Chikmagalur district is unbelievably beautiful place and I am always fascinated by that place and enjoy visiting Chikmagalur. There are many wonderful hill stations to visit and few of them are Mullayanagiri and Kemmannu gundi. Since my interest is visiting historical temples,I enquired few locals about any special place.Mr.Prabhu, my friend took time,discussed with his local friends and came out with a plan to visit 3 temples of historical importance.

Prabhu and myself started from Mudigere and on the way picked up Mr. Manjunath,school teacher in Bhairapur.One of the temples we visited is Bhairaveshwara Temple in Bhairapur.Manjunath is working in that place for 3 years and is quite popular.He taught us many interesting facts about Bhairapur.He took us to Bhairaveshwara Temple on the top of the hill. This place is about 22 kms from Mudigere and road is manageable.

This temple on the top of the hill looks like protecting the whole western ghats !! There is no record available about this temple but probably it was built in 13th century. The priest who was waiting for us informed that there is an adjoining pond and a escape route from this place. We could witness the pond and entry of escape route. This was part of the fort which Hoysalas built ,now it is in ruins.This was the place which was used for preparing and storing coins. Thats why this place is called Tankada Bhairapur(means factory for coins).

Manjunath explained that this place is popular trekking place.Two hours trek behind the temple area will take us to Kukke Subramanya temple !