Great Living Chola Temples: Outstanding Workmanship Of Chola Dynasty Builders Of South India

A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The Great Living Chola Temples were built by powerful kings of the Chola Empire,  which stretched across southern India, and the neighboring islands.

Airavatesvara Temple at Darasuram. Image credit: Gughanbose – CC BY-SA 3.0

Three temples of the Chola: the Brihadisvara Temple at Gangaikondacholisvaram, the Airavatesvara Temple at Darasuram, and the Brihadisvara Temple at Thanjavur, are dated to the 11th and 12th centuries.

Brihadeeshwara Temple, of which foundations were laid by the Chola king Rajaraja I in 1002 AD, is probably the finest temple in Tamil Nadu.

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