This Kashi Vishvanath Temple is one of the famous of the Hindu temples; this temple is completely dedicated to Lord Shiva. This temple is located in Varanasi of Uttar Pradesh in India.

The temple is located just western side of the river Ganga. There are twelve Jyothirlingas in various parts of Indian temples. This temple is one among them. The deity of this temple is Vishwanath and also known as Visheweswara. The meaning of Vishweswara gives that ruler of the universe. The temple is very popular among Hindus as Kasi Viswanath. This temple is referred in many Hindu scriptures.

The Muslim king Aurangzeb who is the sixth emperor of this place has constructed this temple. Of course the present structure was completed by the Maratha ruler Ahilya Bai Holkar of Indore in the 1780. Now since from 1983 the temple has been managed by Uttar Pradesh government during the festival of Shivrathiri and one more festival.

In many puranas this temple is mentioned, and including Kashi Khanda a part of Skanda Purana. The first temple was destroyed by the army of Quto-ud-din Aiback in the year 1194 CE. The temple was rebuilt by a Gujarati merchant during the period of Delhi Sulthan.

Many leading saints as Adi Sankaracharya, Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Swami Vevekananda, Bamakhyapa, Goswami, Tulasidas, Swami Dayananda Saraswathi, Sthya Sai Baba and Gurunanak have visited and praised the lord Shiva here. The location of the temple is very attractive to all pilgrims just because it is located close to the holly river Ganga. All Hindus life wish is to visit this temple once in their life time. In the olden days of Hindu culture once a person completely enjoyed his life will reach to this place for the end of his life or salvation. The beauty is the linga in this temple of main deity of Shiva is only 60 centimeters tall and sixty centimeters circumstance and placed in silver.

As this place is long distance from other parts of India, Hindus will save their money every month for the purpose of visiting this temple. For the tourists there are many flights are available to reach the Varanasi airport, within India there are lot of train and bus facilities are available to reach to this temple. In the Varanasi there are many places to stay for free and eat for free. There are many cheap hotels are also available to eat and spend some days here.

There is no difference in between Shaivas and Vaishnavis in worshiping this temple, all the Hindus arrive every day in thousands of numbers. There are many tour operators providing cheap trip to visit this temple from all over the India. Hindus believe once they visit this temple all their earlier sins are removed by the power of Kasi Vishwanath. This holly city Kasi is surrendering place for all Hindus at their end of the life. People from various parts of India came to this place and settled down at this place, as the city is the holly place to live with peace.