Adi Shankaracharya travelled worldwide to spread, promote and revive Hinduism. One of the major contributions of Shankaracharya was to establish 4 mathas or Peethams or monasteries across the country, Jyotirmath in Uttarakhand (north), Dwarka in Gujarat (west), Govardhan Math in Puri, Odisha (east), and Sringeri Sharada Peetham in Karnataka (south).