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A Hindu temple, also known as Mandir (in Sanskrit), Devasthanam (in Konkani and Hindi), Pura (in Balinese), or Kovil (in Tamil), is a sacred place where Hindus worship and show their devotion to deities through worship, sacrifice, and prayers. It is considered the house of the god to whom it is dedicated.
English: This is a photo of sketches made by Ram Raz and published in 1834. The source images can be found in Ram Raz (1834) Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
This is almost universal in ancient Hindu temples found in India, as well outside South Asia. Designs that use harmonic ratios other that perfect square and circle are known, but these too are precise mathematical series and ratios embedding squares and circles inside rectangles (1:2, 1:3, 2:3, 2:5, etc).
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 temple is spread over 3 hectares (7.5 acres), adorned with many shrines, fountains, and a large garden with Hindu and Nationalistic sculptures, and also houses Geeta Bhawan for discourses. The temple is one of the major attractions of Delhi and attracts thousands of devotees on the festivals of Janmashtami and Diwali .
The Sivadol or Shiva temple, built in the Shikhara architecture [7] (more specifically Ahom temple architecture), has a central tower which is said to be the tallest Shiva temple tower in India at a height of 104 feet (32 m). [1] The base of the temple measures 195 ft (59 m) in circumference. [1] The temple is built with stone and bricks.
The most recent incident happened on Aug. 16 when a group walked passed the Tulsi Mandir temple in Richmond Hill, hit the statue of Gandhi with a hammer and defaced it with spray paint.
Yali in pillars at Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple. Madurai Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple was built by Pandyan Emperor Sadayavarman Kulasekaran I (1190 CE–1205 CE). He built the main portions of the three-storeyed Gopuram at the entrance of Sundareswarar Shrine and the central portion of the Goddess Meenakshi Shrine, which are some of the earliest surviving parts of the temple.