Udupi Anantheshwara Temple is a historic Hindu temple built during the reign of the Alupas in the 8th century. The temple Architecture bears unmistakable testimony to its antiquity .
The ceiling of the sanctum sanctorum was restored with a traditional method comprising of a stone ceiling base on which a tapering wooden roof clad with copper sheets at the top is installled.
The stones were bound by the traditional binding medium in of lime and jagggery in the traditional method. The intricately carved antique wooden trusses on which the wooden roof is mounted was restored.
At the Chandramouleshwara temple adjacent to the Ananthehswara temple, stone pillars were treated, washed and restored by sand blasting method. The walls at both the temples were decorated with murals from the lost tradition of Kavi art revived by Shri Purshotham adve.