Tamil Nadu temple Architecture

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Tamil Nadu temple Architecture

Tamil Nadu in South India is a storage facility of a genuinely huge number of temples. Unadulterated Hindu culture actually flourishes here. The temples of Tamil Nadu mirror the normal south Indian culture and they are implicit the Dravidian style of architecture. The vast majority of the temples have grand towers and they are the light carriers of the heavenly legacy of Tamil Nadu.

South Indian temple architecture, additionally called Drāviḍa Style, architecture perpetually utilized for Hindu temples in current Tamil Nadu from the seventh to the eighteenth century, characterized by its pyramidal, or kūṭina-type, tower. Variation structures are found in Karnataka (in the past Mysore) and Andhra Pradesh states. The South Indian temple comprises basically of a square-chambered sanctuary topped by a superstructure, tower, or spire and a joined pillared porch or lobby (maṇḍapa, or maṇṭapam), encased by a peristyle of cells inside a rectangular court. The external walls of the temple are divided by pilasters and convey specialties housing model. The superstructure or tower over the sanctuary is of the kūṭina type


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