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Kashi Temple Architecture Mapping

Documenting the temple fabric of Kashi lane by lane — shikharas, doorframes, and shrines the city has absorbed into its walls.

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Temple, Art & Heritage
Kashi Temple Architecture Mapping

Kashi absorbs its temples the way a forest absorbs trees: into lanes, courtyards, and walls. This album begins our mapping of the city’s temple fabric — the named landmarks first, the lane shrines to follow.

Durga Kund temple, Varanasi
Durga Kund — the 18th-century shikhara over its stepped kund — Photo: Creator:Agnes Morgenstierne · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
Tulsi Manas Mandir, Varanasi
Tulsi Manas Mandir — where the Ramcharitmanas lines the walls — Photo: juggadery · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Bharat Mata Mandir, Varanasi
Bharat Mata Mandir — the temple whose deity is the map of India — Photo: Manuel Menal · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

Follow the mapping in the Indic Gallery and read the architecture itself on the Temple Architecture Yatra.

Credits: photographs via Wikimedia Commons under their stated licenses (per-image credits in captions); curation by Indic Warriors.

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