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Hindu Temples

Temples built for Hindu worship in this atlas's Religious and Sacred Buildings subcategory. Belongs here: any building this atlas records as a Hindu place of worship, from a village shrine to a major pilgrimage temple complex. Does not belong here: a Buddhist temple, gathered under this subcategory's Buddhist Temples and Pagodas group, or a Southeast Asian temple of a different tradition, gathered under Southeast Asian and Khmer Temples.

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Era of Emergence
400 CE 1
Origin Region
India (Gupta dynasty) 1
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  • Wikipedia, Hindu temple architecture, history section, era
    Though there are very few remains of stone Hindu temples before the Gupta dynasty in the 5th century CE, there may be earlier structures constructed from timber-based architecture.
  • Wikipedia, Hindu temple architecture, history section, region
    Though there are very few remains of stone Hindu temples before the Gupta dynasty in the 5th century CE, there may be earlier structures constructed from timber-based architecture.
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