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The temple compound, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the largest Hindu temple site in Indonesia, and one of the biggest in Southeast Asia. It is characterized by its tall and pointed architecture, typical of Hindu temple architecture , and by the towering 47-metre-high (154 ft) central building (Lord Shiva shrine) inside a large complex of ...
Swaminarayan Akshardham in Robbinsville, New Jersey, U.S., is the world's second-largest Hindu temple and the largest and most-visited Hindu temple outside Asia. [ 177 ] Sri Venkateswara Temple in Bridgewater , New Jersey , in a semi-rural setting, serves as the flagship for the Hindu Temple and Cultural Society of USA
The Kailasa temple (Cave 16) is the largest of the 34 Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain cave temples and monasteries known collectively as the Ellora Caves, ranging for over two kilometres (1.2 mi) along the sloping basalt cliff at the site. [5] Most of the excavation of the temple is generally attributed to the eighth century Rashtrakuta king Krishna ...
The campus' centerpiece is a larger temple, called the Akshardham, which measures almost 90,000 square feet, reaches 191 feet into the sky and was made from 1.9 million cubic feet of marble and ...
Apart from India, where the vast majority (1.12 billion) of the world's 1.3 billion [1] Hindu population lives, Hindu Temples are found across the world, on every continent. . In the Indian Subcontinent, thousands of modern and historic temples are spread across Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakist
Ekambareswarar Temple is the largest temple in Kanchipuram, a highly visible symbol of Pallava dynasty. The entire complex covers an area of 10 hectares and has five courtyards. [20] Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India: 7 Kallazhagar Temple: 187 AD Kallazhagar Temple is located in Azhagar Koyil, and is dedicated to Vishnu. In the outer gateway of ...
The temple compound, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the largest Hindu temple site in Indonesia and the second-largest in Southeast Asia after Angkor Wat. [1] It is characterized by its tall and pointed architecture, typical of Hindu architecture , and by the towering 47-metre-high (154 ft) central building inside a large complex of individual ...
As planned, it will be the tallest religious monument in the world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The temple has been planned by the followers of Srila Prabhupada . The planned effort includes the temple rising to a height of about 210 metres (700 ft) or 75 floors and a built-up area of 50,000 square metres (540,000 sq ft). [ 3 ]