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Nagara style Ram temple
January 25 , 2024
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- The Ram temple in Ayodhya was inaugurated recently.
- Chandrakant Sompura, and his son Ashish, have designed the complex in the Nagara style of temple architecture.
- The Nagara style of temple architecture emerged sometime in the fifth century CE, during the late Gupta period, in northern India.
- Nagara temples are built on a raised plinth, with the garbha griha (sanctum sanctorum).
- Towering over the garbha griha is the shikhara (literally ‘mountain peak’), the most distinguishable aspect of Nagara style temples.
- The temple is being constructed using sandstone from Mirzapur and those from the hills of Bansi-Paharpur area in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district.
- The use of steel or iron has been avoided in the construction of the temple structure.
- Instead, it has been constructed employing the country’s indigenous technology and traditional construction materials.
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