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Which rooms (or the main ones) and in what order, or you can give me a website where I can find the answers.

2007-02-18 00:10:32 · 4 answers · asked by :) School Girl (: 1 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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Temple architecture in the Hindu tradition is religious architecture connected to astronomy and sacred geometry. The temple is a representation of the macrocosm (the universe) as well as the microcosm (the inner space).

A basic Hindu temple consists of an inner sanctum, the garbha griha or womb-chamber, in which the image is housed, often with space for its circumambulation, a congregation hall, and possibly an antechamber and porch. The sanctum is crowned by a tower-like shikara. The garbha grha contains the shrine, or the primary focus of worship of the temple. In those temples with a spire or vimana, this room is placed directly underneath it, and the two then form a main vertical axis of the temple. At the turn of the first millennium CE two major types of temples existed, the northern or Nagara style and the southern or Dravida type of temple.
In many temples it is a dark and poorly lit chamber, both because of its seclusion, but also with an intent to focus the worshipper's mind on the image contained in it. Entrance to the garbha grha is sometimes restricted to priests, and worshippers may then only be allowed to come to its door.-

2007-02-18 18:30:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

Inside A Mandir

2016-12-11 15:06:47 · answer #2 · answered by scutt 4 · 0 0

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2017-02-28 05:06:59 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

garbh griha

2007-02-18 00:18:45 · answer #4 · answered by Neeraja Singh 3 · 0 1

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