Floor Plan Hindu Temple Design Plans

This floor plan is common in large temples.

Floor plan hindu temple design plans.

The blue squares are brahma pada typically where the main and or largest idol of the temple resides. The design especially the floor plan of the part of a hindu temple around the sanctum or shrine follows a geometrical design called vastu purusha mandala the name is a composite sanskrit word with three of the most important components of the plan. The main worship area seating up to 400 is at the right. Hindu temple floor plan.

File 81 grid parama sayika design hindu temple floor plan vastu purusa mandala ancient architecture bn svg. Further description about paramasayika mandala. 12th or early 13th century navalakha temple plan ghumli gujarat hindu maru gurjara style jpg 1 142 1 686. The changing area is separated from the temple by a ramp which connects the temple elevated 3 feet and the changing area.

The manuals comprising of hindu temple layouts elucidates plans with squares in the count of 1 4 9 16 25 and thus reaching up to 1024. Repetition and mirroring of fractal like design structure forms a significant principle of hindu temple designs. It is also a place for meditation and spiritual connect. Manduka mandala is the most common and sacred hindu temple format set on a 8 x 8 grid.

The temple design includes the archetypal image of a cosmic person spread out yogi like symmetrically filling the gridded space of the floor plan his navel in the center and it includes the archetype of the cosmic mountain between earth and heaven of fertility planets city of the gods deities etc. This is my 4th floor plan. Temples are places where puja is performed. This is the floor plan for a hindu temple proposed at the former site of the amc classic lorna ridge 10 movie theater on lorna ridge drive and lorna ridge lane in hoover alabama.

It will also include a changing area for both men and women before they enter the temple. This floor plan is common in large temples. Stella kramirsch the hindu temple 2 volumes pt. A temple in india is a place where the devotee can meet a representation of the lord pray and ask for blessings.

Media in category floor plans of hindu temples the following 60 files are in this category out of 60 total. In hindu temple architecture the designs range from simple 1 pada used for yoga meditation with self as temple to 1024 pada or 32x32 grid superstructure temples.