Pancha Maha Bhuta temples are five temples dedicated to Shiva. Each place represents a manifestation of Lord Shiva as one of the five main elements of nature: earth, water, fire, air, and space. Pancha means five and Bhuta elements. The world is comprised of these 5 elements and even the human body is also comprised of these five. A visit to these is said to balance our problems related to the imbalance of these in our syastem.
They are as follows:
1.Earth or Prithivi Lingam Ekambareswarar Temple, Kanchipuram, Tamilnadu.
2.Water or Jala Lingam also called Appu Lingam or Jambu Lingam, Jambukeshwarar Temple, Thiruvanaikaval, near Trichy, Tamilnadu.
3.Fire or Agni Lingam Arunachaleswara Temple, Thiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu.
4.Air or Vayu Lingam, Kalahasti temple, near Tirupati Andhra Pradesh.
5.Space or Akasha or Eather Lingam or Aagaya Lingam/Akasha Lingam) Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram, Tamilnadu.
