At a height of ,  from Rishikesh, on the shores of Mandakini river, a tributary of Ganga, is a stone edifice of unknown date. It is not certain who built the original Kedarnath temple and when.
At a specified elevation from Rishikesh, on the banks of Mandakini river, there exists a stone structure with an undetermined history. The identity and construction timeline of the original Kedarnath temple remain uncertain.