The Vijayanarayana Temple is located in the town of Gundlupet, in the Chamarajanagar district of Karnataka, India. The temple dates back to the 10th century, during the rule of the Western Ganga Dynasty.
Although the temple received continuous patronage from later kingdoms, including up to the 15th-century Vijayanagara period, tradition holds that King Vishnuvardhana of the Hoysala Empire was responsible for the consecration of the deity Vijayanarayana.
The temple features a sanctum (garbhagriha), a vestibule (sukhanasi) that connects the sanctum to the navaranga (a closed hall where devotees gather for prayers), and an open hall.
The base on which the walls of the navaranga are built, known as the adhisthana, is adorned with several moldings. The walls that rise from this base feature slender decorative pilasters.