Visit at Gargoti Museum & Gondeshwar Temple

One day small outdoor session was planned at Gargoti Mineral Museum & Gondeshwar Temple @ Sinnar.

First & Second year students actively participated in this outdoor session and did on the spot landscape drawing.

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Gargoti- The Mineral Museum, under the leadership of K.C.Pandey has been working consistently to conserve the neglected Natural Mineral Wealth & Creations of Mother India mainly coming from the Deccan Plateau. Gargoti Museum is India’s one & only Gem & Mineral Museum. It is the world’s biggest “Private” Gem & Mineral Museum. Gargoti Museum houses the largest & the finest collection of Indian Zeolite Minerals & Crystals in the world.

Gondeshwar temple is a very beautiful temple built in the Hemadpanthi style of Architechture. During the Adilshahi rule in Maharastra. This style became very popular and came to be known as the Hemadpanthi style. The Gondeshwar temple is one of the few structures of this style still in good shape. It is a Shaiva Panchayatan, or a group of five temples within a large enclosure. The central shrine is dedicated to Lord Shiva and the remaining four around it are temples to Sri Parvati, Sri Ganapati, Surya Bhagwan and Lord Vishnu. The temple is truly unique in design, perfect in proportion and the stone carvings are exquisitely beautiful. The pillared hall carved with tortoise, the Kurma Avatar of Lord Vishnu, on the ground, is small, elegant and unique in this part of the country. The structure was constructed using the locally available black basalt stone and lime. The temple’s origin dates back to 12 – 13th century during Yadava dynasty.

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