Tradition

Hindu Temple

5 in the atlas. Grouped by what the building actually is, not by one word for everything.

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Delhi · IndiaHindu Temple

Finished in 2005 and carved entirely in the traditional way, with no structural steel.

Madurai · IndiaHindu Temple

Twelve gopuram towers covered in thousands of painted figures, stacked so densely it reads as one moving surface.

Varanasi · IndiaHindu Temple

One of the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines and the spiritual centre of Varanasi, the city Hindus come to die in.

Yogyakarta · IndonesiaHindu Temple

Slender, spiky and 47 m tall, this is what Hindu Java built to answer Buddhist Borobudur, and the two sit half an hour apart.

Kathmandu · NepalHindu Temple

The most important Hindu temple in Nepal, on the Bagmati river, where open air cremations happen continuously on the ghats.

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