Apart from the Brihadeshwara Temple, the complex at Gangaikonda Cholapuram houses many smaller temples dedicated to several other deities along with several structures of Nandi bull and lion-shaped ...

The ancient fresco panel inside the Brihadeshwara temple in Thanjavur is not just a piece of art but a combination of heritage, history, literature, art and social life of that time, according to ...

The temple, which is also called as Brihadeshwara Temple and RajaRajeswara ... of a single rock and weighs around 20 tons. The Lingam inside the temple is 3.7 meters tall. Photograph courtesy ...

Brihadeshwara temple is several times bigger than any other temple built during its time in history. The 216 feet Vimana is a notable one among the tallest manmade shikaras of the world.

Brihadeshwara temple is also known as Rajarajeshwaram ... The vimana is the tower above the sanctum inside the main structure.

CHENNAI: The towering Brihadeshwara temple at Thanjavur, a symbol of classic South Indian temple architecture revered by historians and the public alike, can now be studied in detail in an ...