page_title: Kera, Kutch
section_title: Shiva Temple
hierarchical_section_title: Kera, Kutch / Places of interest / Shiva Temple
caption_attribution_description: English: Shiva Temple at Kheda [Kera], Kachch
context_page_description: Kera is a village in Bhuj Taluka of Kutch district of Gujarat, India. This historical town has several places of interest; the ruins of an old fort and Shiva temple, and the shrine of a Muslim saint Ghulam Ali.
context_section_description: Tho old Shiva temple, built perhaps at the end of the tenth century, is of hard lasting stone partly red partly yellow. Except the shrine and spire, the temple collapsed during the 1819 Rann of Kutch earthquake. The shrine measures 8 feet 6 inches square inside, with walls 2 feet 7 inches thick, surrounded by a path 2 feet 6 inches wide, lighted by two open cut-stone windows. Of the hall, which was 18 feet 9 inches wide, only a part of the north wall with one window is left. The wall sculptures, though not numerous, are well executed, and on the faces of the spire is an elaborately cut ornament representing the outlines of a chaitya window, repeated over a triangular face, with human figurines in-between. Of these triangles of sculpture there are eight on each side, gradually lessening as they rise higher one over the other. The corners of the shrine are mounted by miniature spires, and above them are other four similar, but set further inwards; above these and the sculpture, rises the massive outline of the great central spire all beautifully carved.
caption: Shiva Temple at Kera, Kutch
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