Top 10 Amazing Hindu Temples

Hinduism is one of the world's most established religions, and has more than 900 million devotees around the world. Despite the fact that the vast majority of the Hindus live in India there are considerable numbers present in Nepal, Bangladesh and Indonesia. 

Sanctuary development in India began about 2000 years prior and denoted the move of Hinduism from the Vedic religion. The engineering of Hindu sanctuaries has developed following the time when bringing about an awesome assortment of styles. They are generally devoted to one essential Hindu divinity and highlight a murti (hallowed picture) of the god. In spite of the fact that it is not compulsory for a Hindu to visit a Hindu sanctuary routinely, they assume a crucial part in Hindu society and society.

10Tanah Lot

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Arranged on a huge rock, Tanah Lot is a standout amongst the most popular Hindu sanctuaries in Bali, and likely the most shot. The Tanah Lot sanctuary has been a piece of Balinese mythology for quite a long time. The sanctuary is one of 7 ocean sanctuaries, each inside of visual perception of the following, to frame a chain along the south-western shore of Bali.

9Kanchipuram Temples

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The City of 1000 Temples, Kanchipuram is one of the most established urban communities in South India, and known for its old Hindu sanctuaries and silk sarees. The city contains a few major sanctuaries like the Varadharaja Perumal Temple for Lord Vishnu and the Ekambaranatha Temple which is one of the five types of houses Lord Siva.

8Brihadeeswarar Temple

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The Brihadishwara Temple, situated in Thanjavur, India, was worked by the Chola lord Rajaraja I in the eleventh century. The world's first finished rock sanctuary, Brihadishwara is a splendid sample of the Dravidian style of sanctuary design. The sanctuary tower is 66 meters (216 feet) high making it one of the tallest sanctuaries on the planet.

7Khajuraho

The town of Khajuraho is a standout amongst the most prominent vacationer destinations in India. It's various Hindu and Jain sanctuaries are acclaimed for their sexual figure. The sanctuaries were worked over a range of 200 years, from 950 to 1150. A couple of the sanctuaries are committed to the Jain pantheon and the rest to Hindu divinities, to Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, and different Devi shapes.

6Banteay Srei

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Albeit authoritatively part of the Angkor Wat complex, Banteay Srei lies 25 km (15 miles) north-east of the fundamental gathering of sanctuaries, enough to show it independently here. The Hindu sanctuary was finished in 967 AD and is constructed to a great extent of red sandstone, a medium that fits the elaborate enlivening divider carvings which are still unmistakably obvious today. Banteay Srei is the main real sanctuary at Angkor not worked for a ruler, rather it was built by one of lord Rajendravarman's instructors, Yajnyavahara.

5Sri Ranganathaswamy

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Devoted to Lord Ranganatha (a leaning back type of Lord Vishnu), the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple in Srirangam, India is an imperative sanctuary that gets a large number of guests and pioneers each year. With a zone of 156 sections of land (6,31,000 m²), the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple is one of the biggest religious edifices on the planet. The most seasoned structure of the sanctuary goes back to the tenth century.

4Virupaksha Temple

The Virupaksha Temple in the city of Hampi in India began as a little holy place and developed into a vast complex under the Vijayanagara rulers. It is trusted that this sanctuary has been working uninterruptedly following the time when the little sanctum was inherent the seventh century AD which makes it one of the most established working Hindu sanctuaries in India. The biggest passage tower of the sanctuary is 50 meters high.

3Prambanan

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Prambanan is the biggest and most delightful Hindu sanctuary complex in Indonesia. Situated around 18 km east of Yogyakarta, it is to some degree eclipsed by the significantly more dazzling Borobudur arranged simply adjacent. The two locales are entirely diverse in style however, with Prambanan being an accumulation of tall and pointed Hindu sanctuaries, rather than the single vast Buddhist stupa of Borobudur. 

Prambanan has three primary sanctuaries devoted to Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva and was worked around 850AD by the Mataram Kingdom, leaders of focal Java.

2Meenakshi Amman Temple

The Meenakshi Amman Temple is a standout amongst the most essential Indian Hindu sanctuaries, situated in the blessed city of Madurai. The sanctuary is devoted to Sundareswar (type of Lord Shiva) and Meenakshi (type of Goddess Parvati). The mind boggling houses 14 heavenly towers including two brilliant Gopurams for the primary gods, that are intricately molded and painted. 

The sanctuary is a critical image for the Tamil individuals, and has been said for the last couple of centuries, however the present structure was inherent the mid seventeenth century.

1Angkor Wat

Angkor is an immense sanctuary complex in Cambodia including the eminent stays of a few capitals of the Khmer Empire, from the ninth to the fifteenth century AD. These incorporate the popular Angkor Wat sanctuary, the world's biggest single religious landmark, and the Bayon sanctuary (at Angkor Thom) with its large number of huge stone countenances. Amid it's long history Angkor experienced numerous adjustments in religion changing over between Hinduism to Buddhism a few times.