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Babore is one of the most impressive sites of archaeological importance in the District Udhampur. Now a protected monument, there exited several temples of ancient time. Ruins of six temples in an area of one Kilometer have been found.

Ruins of Ancient Babore Temple

The village Babore is situated about 25 Kms from Udhampur on the Udhampur-Dhar Road near Manwal village. The temples  are the stone structures which has resemblance to one,   which the Great Kashmir ruler Lalitaditya built at Wangal at the foot of Harmukh mountain in Kashmir in the 8th century A.D.

The remains of Babore temples throw lights to how impressive art and architecture was prevalent even in that time. These ruins are the structures of great solidity and considerable beauty. Some of the stones, monolithic beams, pillars used in their construction are over a dozen feet long and their sculptures and carving are splendid and impressive. Temples must be a part of great pilgrimage of by gone ages which lost either importance or damaged in some calamity.

Ruins  of only three have been identified, two of these are still used by the villagers of the neighborhood for worship. These are temples of Devi and Shiva. The Archaeological Department, Government of India, is presently looking after these ancient monuments and trying to bring these to their original grandeur.

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