{"id":2425,"date":"2026-03-09T11:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/uttarkashi\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:14:14","slug":"uttarkashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/uttarkashi\/char-dham-yatra\/uttarkashi\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttarkashi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Uttarkashi<\/h1><\/div>

Altitude: <\/strong>1158m<\/p>\n<\/div>

Uttarkashi literally means \u2018Kashi of the North\u2019. Kashi comes from Sanskrit word kas<\/em> which means to shine, city of Light , luminosity arising from divine knowledge. Uttarkashi is located on banks of river Bhagirathi at an elevation of 1158m.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

About<\/h3><\/div>
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There is city called Varanasi or Kashi in state of Uttar Pradesh around 800 km away from Delhi by road. Located on banks of River Ganga ,it is a holy city which has temple dedicated to Lord Shiva known as Kashi Vishwanath Temple. Vishwanath <\/em>means Lord of the World.<\/p>\n

Similarly there is a Kashi Vishwanath Temple located in Uttarkashi. Traditionally these two temples have been considered one and the same in spirit. This temple worships Lord Shiva in form of stone lingam<\/em>. It is a bit tilted because the legend says that one Sage Markandeya at the point of death clinged on to the lingam<\/em> very tightly as Yama, God of Death approached him. the force was so much that it tilted the stone.<\/p>\n

This signifies that when a person prays to Lord Shiva, also known as Mrityunjaya or Conqueror of Death, he can bless one by conquest of death.<\/p>\n

In front of this temple is a Shakti temple, temple dedicated to Parvati, consort of Shiva. Shakti means energy.\u00a0 The temple contains a huge trishul <\/em>or trident said to have fallen from heaven to earth.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Attractions<\/h4><\/div>
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  • Sivananda Kutir, part of Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Ashrams and Centres, was founded in 1991. Situated on banks of river Ganga in a small village Netala is just 8 km away from Uttarkashi.<\/li>\n
  • Vishwanath temple<\/li>\n
  • Uttarkashi village<\/li>\n
  • Local Ashrams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

    How to reach<\/h4><\/div>
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    • Uttarkashi will be on our way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-char-dham-yatra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/uttarkashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/uttarkashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/uttarkashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/uttarkashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/uttarkashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/uttarkashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/uttarkashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/uttarkashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/uttarkashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/uttarkashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}