Murudeshwara Temple, protected by structures of two full estimated elephants in cement, is one of the primary attractions in Murudeshwar town. Heaps of lover visits here to offer petitions to God. The sanctuary, with focal god as a linga, is accepted to have structured when Ravana flung the fabric blanket the atmatlinga at Gokarana and influencing it to arrive on the mount regarded as `kanduka Parvata’. The sanctuary, in the blink of an eye revamped, has numerous striking carvings and statues that go again to a couple of hundreds of years.

The two engravings discovered in the old sanctuary clears path for the explanations for the development of Nandi Mantapa, thought to be in 1542 Ad and additionally shed lights on the Devaraya Ii Raj of Vijayanagar. The sanctuary with Chalukya and Kadamba designs in the Dravidian style to show medieval grace and appeal ignores superbly the Arabian ocean.

A Nataraja statue made of chime metal, a sanctuary of `jattiga’, the guarding divinity, are seen spotted outside the sanctuary. The sanctuary draws in a mess of aficionados, is an impeccable grand spot with thundering ocean, the towering mounts and the greenish coconut and forests around.