It is also known as the Ambreshwar Shiva Temple, and known locally as Puratana Shivalaya.

It is situated on the bank of the Waldhuni river, 2 km away from Ambarnath railway station (East).

It was probably built by Shilahara king Chhittaraja, it may also have been rebuilt by his son Mummuni.

[2] Unusually, the sanctuary or garbhagriha is below ground, reached by some 20 steps down from the mandapa, and is open to the sky as the shikhara tower above stops abruptly at a little above the height of the mandapa, and was apparently never completed.

[4] It is clear from what was built that the shikhara would have followed these in having four corner bands of gavaksha-honeycomb sweeping uninterrupted up the full height of the tower, while in between each face has rows of five spirelets on individual podia, reducing in size up the tower.