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Village in Karnataka, India

Shirali

Shirali is a village in Bhatkal taluk of Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka.

Shirali
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The place

Shirali is a village in Bhatkal taluk of Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka. Shirali is home to two prominent temples: the Chitrapur Math and the Maha Ganapathi Mahammaya Temple. The Chitrapur Math is the holiest temple of the Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin community, and the Maha Ganapathi Mahammaya temple is the Kuladev to the Kamaths, Bhats, Puraniks, Prabhus, Joishys, Mallyas, Kudvas and Nayak families from the Goud Saraswat Brahmin community.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Shirali

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Chitrapur Math

    Shri Chitrapur Math is the central math for the Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin sect. It has been located at Shirali in the Bhatkal Taluk in the North Kanara district of Karnataka since 1757.

    2.5 km · central community temple for the Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin sect in Karnataka, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Maha Ganapathi Mahammaya Temple

    The Maha Ganapathi Mahammaya Temple is a Hindu temple in Shirali in the Uttar Kannada district of Karnataka state. The temple is dedicated to the god Ganesha as Mahaganapati and the goddess Mahamaya.

    1.9 km · Hindu temple · Wikipedia

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Getting to Shirali

Airports
Mangaluru (IXE), 125 km · Goa Dabolim (GOI), 168 km · Manohar (GOX), 205 km
Stations
Chitrapur railway station, 3 km
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No local-transport research exists yet for Shirali

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Shirali. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Mumbai, a private Volvo bus is available for Mangalore which stops at Murdeshwar bypass road opposite to the main gate of the temple and adjacent to the gate is a rickshaw stand which will charge ₹30 (April 2017) for a ride till Main temple.

From Wikivoyage: Murdeshwar, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    GokarnaIN

    7 ways of moving, 14 sources

    63 km
  2. 02
    HampiIN

    8 ways of moving, 18 sources

    255 km
  3. 03
    AgattiIN

    8 ways of moving, 19 sources

    432 km
  4. 04
    NelliyampathyIN

    7 ways of moving, 26 sources

    454 km
  5. 05
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    512 km

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Around it

Next door to Shirali

  • Venkatapurahuman settlement in Uttara Kannada District, Belgaum division, Karnataka, India1.5 km
  • Chitrapurhuman settlement in India2.6 km
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