Idea #390 – Discovering the living Chola’s temples
The big Chola’s temples constitue an exceptional testimony of the architecture and the policy of the Chola’s empire and the Tamils’ civilization in South India. The site consists of three big temples, built between the XIth and XIIth centuries.
The temple of Brihadisvara to Tanjor, rather austere, cuts with the temple Brihadisvara to Gangai Kondacholisvaram, finished in 1035; the latter possesses a tower sanctuary, the vimana, 53 meters high, with decresaing angles which curve elegantly upward.
The temple Airatesvara to Darasuram, set up by Rajaraj II, consists of a vimana 24 meters high, accompanied with a remarkable stone image of Shiva. These temples show brilliant civilizations of the era Chola, in particular in terms of architecture, paintings, sculptures and bronze statuaries. They have in more the originality to be still in service, what peppers a little the visit! All the three sites is classified on the UNESCO world heritage list since 1987.
Some Pictures
Where is it ?
Gangai Kondalacholisvaram, Tamil Nadu, Inde
