The Murudeshwar Temple features a colossal statue of Lord Shiva that stands at 123 feet (37 meters) tall, making it the second-tallest Shiva statue in the world after the Kailashnath Mahadev ...

In 2018, Yogesh Patel floated the Suvarna Sankalp Foundation to plate the idol with gold. When it was made, the statue had a concrete core with copper plates fitted on it from the outside.