Amazingly beautiful and largest temple complexes always crowded with devotees for spiritual peace and religious prayers. These beautiful temple complexes are now a days more than home of deities, people come to visit these places from different countries around the world, as a tourist.
1. Angkor Wat, Cambodia
This complex structure is a unique combination of the temple and mountains which is located in Angkor, Cambodia. It is one of the one of the largest and beautiful religious monuments in the world. It occupied 162.6 hectares of land.
The initial design and construction of the temple took place in the first half of the 12th century. Initially this temple is dedicated to God Vishnu for the Khmer Empire (Hindu-Buddhist empire in South Asia), Later in the end of 12th century it was transformed into a Buddhist temple.
2. Prambanan Temple, Indonesia
Built in the 9th century, Prambanan is not one temple, but a compound consisting of 240 temples. The temple compound, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the largest Hindu temple site in Indonesia and the second-largest in Southeast Asia. Prambanan temple is dedicated to the three great Hindu deities, who represent the cosmic functions of creation, maintenance, and destruction: Brahma, the creator, Vishnu, the preserver, and Shiva, the destroyer.
3. Thiruvarangam Temple, India
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Thiruvarangam is also known as Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple, dedicated to Ranganatha, a reclining form of the Hindu deity Maha Vishnu and located in Srirangam, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India. It is situated on an island between the Kollidam and Kaveri rivers. The temple occupies an area of 155 acres (63 ha) with 81 shrines, 21 towers, 39 pavilions, and many water tanks integrated into the complex making it the world’s largest functioning Hindu temple.
4. Gawdawpalin Temple, Myanmar
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Gawdawpalin Temple is situated in Bagan, Burma (Myanmar). This Buddhist temple built in the 12th century, Gawdawpalin was badly damaged in a 1975 due to 6.5 magnitude earthquake. The nearby Bagan museum houses many of the images and treasures that were damaged. The Gawdawpalin Temple belongs to the style of the hollow gu-style temple.
5. Ranakpur Jain Temple, India
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Built in 15th century, Ranakpur Jain temple or Chaturmukha Dharanavihara is a Jain temple at Ranakpur and this temple is dedicated to Tirthankara Rishabhanatha. The temple, with its distinctive domes, shikhara, turrets and cupolas rises majestically from the slope of a hill. 1444 marble pillars, carved in exquisite detail, support the temple. The pillars are all differently carved and no two pillars are the same.
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