Lakshmi Narasimha Temple

The Lakshmi Narasimha Temple stands at the foot of Mangalagiri, the Auspicious Hill, in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, and is counted among the eight great Narasimha shrines of India. It is the lowest of three Narasimha temples on the hill, the others standing on its slope and summit. Tradition holds that the Pandava Yudhishthira discovered the shrine.

The Vijayanagara kings were its patrons: Krishnadevaraya visited in the sixteenth century, and a pillar inscription dated 1520 records grants of villages. After long rule by the Golconda Nawabs, the town survived a raid by Hyder Jung in 1780 and Pindari looting in 1816.

The temple's landmark, an eleven-storeyed gopuram 153 feet high, was raised in 1807 to 1809 by Raja Vasireddy Venkatadri Nayudu of Amaravati.