Shankhapur Temple

The Shankhapur Temple is the Svetambara Jain tirtha of Shankheshwar in northern Gujarat, near Radhanpur, known in early Jain literature as Shankhpur. It is dedicated to Parshvanatha, whose white seated image is counted among the hundred and eight foremost Parshvanatha idols of the Svetambara tradition.

A temple stood on the Rupen river by 1098, when Sajjan Shah rebuilt it, and the minister brothers Vastupala and Tejpal renovated it in 1229. Destroyed in the fourteenth century during the raids of Alauddin Khalji, it was rebuilt in the sixteenth century and consecrated anew in 1703; the present temple rose in 1811.

Under the Mughals Shah Jahan granted the village to the Ahmedabad banker Shantidas Jhaveri. For Svetambara pilgrims its rank stands second only to Mount Shatrunjaya at Palitana.