Published: 10th Aug, 2020
The Ram Temple in Ayodya will be built in the Nagara style of architecture and on the lines of North Indian temple architecture. It will comprise three stories with pillars and domes. It will be double the size of the previous planned design.
Context
The Ram Temple in Ayodya will be built in the Nagara style of architecture and on the lines of North Indian temple architecture. It will comprise three stories with pillars and domes. It will be double the size of the previous planned design.
About
The Nagara or North Indian Temple Architecture:
- The Nagara style is mainly associated with the land between the Himalayas and Vindhyas.
- The basic plan of Nagara temple is square, with a number of graduated projections (rathakas) in the middle of each face which gives it a cruciform shape in the exterior.
- A temple tower or a conical or convex shikhara marks the elevation of the temples.
- The shikhara consists of several layers of carved courses usually crowned by an amalaka (notched ring stone).
- The two basic factors of the style- the cruciform plan and the curvilinear shikhara are visible in northern temples from the 6th century CE, in the late Gupta period.
- Earlier temples began with a single projection on each face and the plan came to be known as triratha. Later in the course of time, the number of projection was increased. The Dashavatara temple at Deogarh, UP, and the brick temple at Bhitargaon, UP are examples of early Nagara style of temples.
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Basic components of a temple:
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Background
- The design was revamped after the Supreme Court in 2019 paved the way for the construction of a temple at a spot in Ayodhya where devotees believe Lord Ram was born.
- The court directed the Centre to allot an alternative five-acre plot for building a new mosque in Ayodhya.
- The mosque in Ayodhya was demolished in December 1992 by 'karsevaks' who claimed an ancient Ram temple had stood on the same site.
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