The twelve Jyotirlingas
Twelve shrines of Shiva, in the order of the Dvadasha Jyotirlinga Stotra.
The temples, in order
- Somnath TempleSomnath, Prabhas Patan, Gujarat
- Mallikarjuna Temple, SrisailamMallikarjuna, Srisailam, Andhra Pradesh
- Mahakaleshwar JyotirlingaMahakaleshwar, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
- Omkareshwar TempleOmkareshwar, Madhya Pradesh
- Baidyanath TempleVaidyanath, Deoghar, Jharkhand
- Bhimashankar TempleBhimashankar, Maharashtra
- Ramanathaswamy TempleRameshwar, Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu
- Nageshwar JyotirlingaNageshvara, Dwarka, Gujarat
- Kashi Vishwanath TempleVishwanath, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
- Trimbakeshwar TempleTryambakeshwar, Trimbak, Maharashtra
- Kedarnath TempleKedarnath, Uttarakhand
- Ghrishneshwar TempleGrishneshwar, Verul, Maharashtra
Traditions differ on where three of the twelve are: Vaidyanath (Deoghar, Parli or Baijnath), Nageshvara (Dwarka, Aundha or Jageshwar) and Bhimashankar. The pin is on the place most often listed.
Source for this list: Wikipedia, The twelve Jyotirlingas. We do not decide which temple is holy. A temple carries the gold teerth pin only when a named traditional circuit includes it, and each circuit page says where its list comes from. More circuits are being added.