These are all temples built hundreds or even thousands of years ago but require modern construction techniques to be able to do.
Built thousands of years ago, however, you will be amazed by the timeless architecture of the ancient temples below. The precise arrangement to the millimeter of the giant stone blocks, weighing more than 80 tons, remains a mystery in their construction.
Brihadeeswarar temple – skyscrapers challenge scientists
The temple called Brihadeeswarar is an extremely important temple of the Indians, it was built by King Rja Rja Chola I in 1010, with a height of up to 66 m (one of the tallest temples in the world). .
Located on an area of 320,000 square kilometers in Thanjavur, India, it is also the world’s first completed granite temple whose mystery still challenges modern scientists. In which the biggest puzzle that is still unsolved is:
How people of that time with the level of science of the 11th century were able to move blocks of stone weighing more than 80 tons (like the Kumbam block at the top) from a distance of 60 km and place them with perfect precision to the top of the temple?
An estimated 130,000 tons of granite were used to build the entire temple. In addition, the mystery of how the sculptors managed to carve the 20-ton statue of the bull god Nandi on a single stone slab is also unsolved.
Konark Sun Temple – Sun Temple
Konark Sun Temple. (Photo: Ancient Origins)
This sun god temple was built in the traditional style of Kalinga architecture in the 13th century at the mouth of the Chandrabhaga River, Konark, Orissa, East India by King Narasimhadeva I of the Eastern Ganga dynasty around 1250.
Its entire structure simulates a giant chariot of the sun god Surya with 12 pairs of huge Khondalite stone wheels with a diameter of 3m and intricately carved, elaborately drawn by 7 pairs of stone horses. The temple gate faces east.
In addition to images of male gods, goddesses, warriors, animals, birds or dancers, the temple also has sensitive images of Tantrics-style male and female couples expressing the harmony between love and affection. education and religion.
Currently, the temple has only a part of the ruins left by the ravages of time, the main structure for worshiping the original road is even up to 70 m high.
In it, scientists believe that at the top of the temple, there is also a 52-ton magnet block that helps the walls to hang in the air but collapsed in the 17th century.
In 1984, it was recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site as well as on Times Magazine’s List of Seven Wonders of India.
Padmanabhaswamy Temple – India’s richest temple and scary curse
Padmanabhaswamy Temple. (Photo: Amar Ujala).
Located in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala state, built in the 16th century, it was once owned by King Marthanda Varma of the ancient Travancore dynasty before it had to be transferred to the Kerala state government in 1949.
Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the place to worship the Hindu god Vishnu, if you look from afar you can also be overwhelmed by its unique architecture, if the sun shines on, the whole temple will light up like a giant gold block.
In fact, it is also the temple that holds the record for the richest in the world because it contains a lot of gold, ki and precious stones. No wonder it always attracts treasure thieves here. The architecture of the temple is also very unique with 6 tunnels marked from A to F.
To enter the “treasure”, the thief will have to go through these six doors with stone snake statues guarding them, which is not an easy thing to open, even leading to disasters for the intruder. because of the ancient curse.
In 2001, archaeologists excavated tunnel A and the treasure alone here has overwhelmed anyone:
The gold chain is up to 6 m long, weighs about 2.5 kg, thousands of gems and jewels, a statue inlaid with 1,000 diamonds, emeralds, crowns… Asia Times estimates the value in the temple. maybe more than 100 billion dollars if all the tunnels are excavated.
Currently, the authorities have to curfew the temple area with a dense police force to maintain security and order because of the attraction of the treasure that this temple contains.
Kailasa Shrine – a temple carved out of a single rock!
Temple of Kailasa. (Photo: Marc Shandro).
Kailasa Temple at Ellora Cave in Mount Kailash, Maharashtra (India), the entire temple was built from a single (monolithic) block with a depth of 50m, a width of 33m and a height of 30m. The temple is also one of the largest monolithic structures in the world.
The temple was built thousands of years ago (5th – 10th centuries AD) by King Krishna I, of the Rashtrakuta dynasty (6th to 10th centuries) showing the remarkable level of civilization developed at that time. now, surprisingly.
It was the mystery of building the temple with manual tools at that time that was the biggest puzzle for scientists. Do you know how people built the temple in the Dravidian style (square spire architecture with meticulously carved details)?
Especially when people at that time separated the rock from the rock 30m to make a pillar, it is estimated that up to 400,000 tons of stone were used for construction during 20 years. Kailasa Temple was built to worship the Hindu god Shiva – the supreme deity who symbolizes regeneration and destruction.