Teli Temple, or Teli ka Mandir, stands inside Gwalior Fort as an unusually tall rectangular Hindu shrine built between the 8th and 9th centuries CE and dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu and the Matrikas.

Its design fuses the North Indian Nagara style with a Valabhi‐style barrel-vaulted roof more common in the south, creating a striking “gopagiri” profile that Hermann Goetz hailed as a late Gupta masterpiece. Rising about 80 feet above a 60-by-40-foot sanctum, the temple features a massive carved Garuda above the 35-foot entrance, empty sculptural niches that once held deities, an inner linga and Nandi, and a circumambulatory path with doorways on all four sides.

After suffering desecration in the 13th century and falling into ruin, it was carefully restored by Major Keith of the Royal Scots between 1881 and 1883 and remains one of the most distinctive monuments in Gwalior’s historic landscape.