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Thanjavur's Great Temple
Mar 3, 2014 Spiritual Adventures

Thanjavur's Great Temple

On our way south to the city of Madurai we stopped briefly at Thanjavur to visit its great temple. The Brihadishwara temple dedicated to Siva was built by King Rajaraja Chola and completed in 1010. This 1004 year old temple is the crowning glory of Chola temple architecture with its 66m (216 ft) high temple tower, the 25 ton statue of Nandi (the sacred bull) at the entrance, carved out of a single...

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