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Before 1926, Spring Street and Main Street met at Temple Street. From Temple, Main and Spring streets proceeded south; Spring at a more southwesterly angle. This created a narrow triangle with the triangle's northern point at Temple. Proceeding south along Main on the right-hand side one would pass the east side of Temple Block.
A photo of the Konark Sun Temple in Odisha taken at around 6:30 AM on October 8th 2024. Konark Sun Temple is a 13th-century CE Hindu Sun temple at Konark about 35 kilometres (22 mi) northeast from Puri city on the coastline in Puri district, Odisha, India. [1] [2] The temple is attributed to king Narasingha Deva I of the Eastern Ganga dynasty ...
Architecture of a Hindu temple (Nagara style). These core elements are evidenced in the oldest surviving 5th–6th century CE temples. Hindu temple architecture as the main form of Hindu architecture has many different styles, though the basic nature of the Hindu temple remains the same, with the essential feature an inner sanctum, the garbha griha or womb-chamber, where the primary Murti or ...
The triangular space where Spring and Main Streets came together at the south side of Temple Street was the site of Temple Block: actually a collection of different structures that occupied the block bounded by Spring, Main and Temple. The first or Old Temple Block built by Francisco (F. P. F.) Temple in 1856, was of adobe, two stories, facing ...
View of the five floors. The temple has an east–west length of 29 m and north–south width of 23 m. The temple is constructed of limestone and has intricate carvings. It is a five storied edifice built over 72 pillars (sandstone temple with 60 pillars is also mentioned).
English: Top blocks of Brihadisvara Temple's Vimana, Thanjavur where the sikhara, a cupolic dome (25 tons), is octagonal and rests on a single block of granite, weighing 80 tons, It is the largest monolith placed on a towering structure in the world.
Deep Jyoti Stambh or Deepa Stambha (Sanskrit: दीपस्तंभ, romanized: dīpastambha) is a unique piece of Hindu architectural structure, usually found in Hindu temples.
In the Hoysala idiom, madanika figures are decorative objects put at an angle on the outer walls of the temple near the roof so that worshipers circumambulating the temple can view them. [13] The sthamba buttalikas are pillar images that show traces of Chola art in the Chalukyan touches. Some of the artists working for the Hoysalas may have ...