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English: This is a JPEG format plan and architectural drawing of a historic Indian temple or monument. An alternate SVG format (scalable vector graphics) version of this file – for web graphics, design studies, print, dynamic and interactive applications – has also been uploaded to wikimedia commons.
The tutelary shrine of a temple or the complex the two together form are sometimes called a temple-shrine (寺社, jisha). [5] [6] If a tutelary shrine is called chinju-dō, it is the tutelary shrine of a Buddhist temple. [3] Even in that case, however, the shrine retains its distinctive architecture.
Kanaka Durga Temple, officially known as Sri Durga Malleswara Swamyvarla Devasthanam, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Kanaka Durga. The deity in this temple is also popularly referred as Kanaka Durga. The temple is located in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India on the Indrakeeladri hill on the banks of Krishna River. [1]
The temple facade has two pillars and two pilasters. [62] The column bases are shaped like seated lions and the middle is chamfered, topped with a fluted capital. [62] At the sides of the entrance mandapa are two standing dvarapalas with welcoming, bent heads. The temple wall has an inscription suggesting a 7th-century origin.
English: Drawing of the Shrine of Little St Hugh in the south choir aisle of Lincoln Cathedral, by William Dugdale. Originally the top contained a statue of Little St Hugh, gone by the time Dugdale drew it.
Often a shrine has more than one gopuram. [1] They also appear in architecture outside India, especially Khmer architecture, as at Angkor Wat. A large Dravidian-style temple, or koil, may have multiple gopurams as the openings into successively smaller walled enclosures around the main shrine, with the largest generally at the outer edges.
Three shrines are connected to a mantapa by a vestibule and consist of the main shrine of tirthankara Adinatha flanked by Neminatha shrine to the east and Shanthinatha shrine containing a 3 metres (9.8 ft) tall idol of the tirthankara to the west. The other two shrines, which are disconnected and lie to the north of the trikuta cluster (three ...
The shrine of Muruga, adoring son of Konesar and his consort, was near one of the gopuram entrances of the complex. [1] [61] A rich collection of local texts written since the fourteenth century record the traditions pertaining to the shrine, including Konamamalai temple's use of the alternate name "Maccakeswaram". [71]