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Southern Temples

A peninsula surrounded by three seas, South India is a region of great natural beauty, dotted by ancient cities and their magnificent temples, overwhelming in their detail of sculpture and grandeur of scale. Many of them are as much a part of everyday life today as they were centuries ago. Temples of antiquity that adorn the South Indian landscape bear testimony to a vibrant past.These monuments of the bygone era, stand in airy splendour with their tow

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The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara Temple at Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu. The shikhara of the temple is made from a single 80-tonne piece of granite. This magnificent temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.

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