Dakshina Kannada District

Coastal district around Mangaluru, with temples, beaches, and a busy port.

Mangaladevi Temple

Dakshina Kannada

The 9th-century temple of the goddess Mangaladevi that is traditionally held to have given the city of Mangaluru its very name.

Stamp at: Mangaluru Post Office

Temple

Moodabidri Thousand Pillar Jain Temple

Dakshina Kannada

The 15th-century Saavira Kambada Basadi ("thousand-pillared temple"), centerpiece of a town so dense with Jain shrines it is called the "Jain Kashi" of the south.

Stamp at: Moodabidri Post Office

Heritage

St. Aloysius Chapel Heritage Paintings

Dakshina Kannada

A late-19th-century Jesuit college chapel whose interior is covered floor to ceiling in frescoes by Italian artist Antonio Moscheni, often called the "Sistine Chapel of Mangaluru."

Stamp at: Mangaluru Head Post Office