Shiva Temple is a 7,646-foot butte in the Grand Canyon of northern Arizona, rising in isolation between the South and North rims and towering about 5,200 feet above the Colorado River. Named by geologist Clarence Dutton for the Hindu deity Shiva and officially adopted in 1906 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, it became notable as one of the canyon’s grandest temple buttes. Its broad, forested summit plateau, capped by Kaibab Limestone above older canyon rock layers, gives it an unusual tableland character. Its isolation also attracted a 1937 scientific expedition that found evidence of earlier human presence but no newly evolved species.